After this past weekend, I am massively frustrated with ACORN. You know ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. They’ve been in the…
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After this past weekend, I am massively frustrated with ACORN. You know ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. They’ve been in the…
Unless I have a clear plan and a grim determination, I won’t get any work done on the house.
We got our 2009 Real Estate Assessment from City Hall Friday. Last year, I didn’t understand property assessments, but now I think I do, kinda…
Rainwater collects in little puddles on several of the steps leading up to our front porch. Ideally these old worn treads should be replaced, but…
ACORN just finished up the job at our house around noon today. It’s been three weeks since they started — instead of four days, which…
Today is Midsummer. It’s just about the biggest holiday of the year in Sweden and Finland and I’m assuming the rest of the Nordic countries…
Boss Lady’s out for the rest of the month, at an AP reading and then a conference. Olivia’s brother passed away, so she’s in Alabama.…
Maybe one reason New Orleans seems to have so many problems is chemical. Specifically I’m thinking about lead. There’s a lot of lead in this…
Over the last few weeks, building on the brackets my father helped me install, I’ve put up approximately 64 linear feet of shelving in the…
Yesterday seemed to be getting off to a good start. I’d set my sights on completing a project that I’ve been postponing and procrastinating on…
So you thought Story #28 was the final chapter in our renovation saga? Not quite. Check today’s Times-Picayune for installment #29, the final final chapter. Check the online version for cute pix by Kathy Anderson.
Today her umbilical stump fell off. To celebrate, we made a pilgrimage to Bayou St. John. She’s definitely growing. Her loose folds of skin are…
Our friends DJ and Daisy and Anna and Lili came over, and we spent the day moving furniture from room to room. My office has…
Wow. Check out the cover of the today’s Inside Out, the Times-Picayune’s weekly home and garden supplement. There’s a picture of Kilowatt Rising rocking our house party, and sure enough there’s Michael Homan (with unbroken clavicle) continuing his sinister project of confusing himself with me. Open it up and we’re in the center spread with pictures and a timeline of our whole renovation. This is the final story in the series, ostensibly, #28 by my count. This can’t be reproduced online easily, but head over to nola.com to for a reasonable approximation with some cool pictures. I’ll include the text here for future reference just because you never know how long nola.com plans to keep their content online.
And of course I must note that although Stephanie gives my wife credit, that’s actually my jambalaya.
Well, we did it. For a while I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off. First there was my sprained ankle. Then…
This story in the paper made me feel ever-so-slightly vindicated about our decision to renovate. A new study of home prices around the New Orleans…
One feature that attracted us to buy our house was the beautiful terra cotta tile on the floor downstairs. People often ask if we installed…
We got our “gold letter” from the Road Home today. The letter states that we did not qualify for any compensation. Or, as they so…