Monthly Archives: May 2014

  • good neighbors

    We’re regularly amazed by neighborly kindness. From tool-lending to truck pick-ups, lighting donations to dessert deliveries (you know who you are!) people are SO helpful. Just this week, our friends, Michael and Clyde, gave us three sheets of Eichler siding, following some repairs. This is expensive stuff, but they insisted we take it. How generous …

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  • panel switch

    Time to get back in the saddle –I need to catch you up on where we’re at, starting with this little (but important) project we tackled last month. These panels sit to the left of our front door, which is technically at the side of our house. And they are, or were, very orange. Not a …

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  • mind the gap

    Sorry for the posting gap –we just returned from our Visa interview, at the US Embassy, in London. They kindly gave us the max five-year extension …

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  • 6457 s land park dr

    We’re starting to get paranoid –since we arrived, three neighbors have put their homes up for sale. The latest appeared last week, with an open house yesterday. As we’ve come to realize, this is an excuse for nosy neighbors (us included) to congregate. And so they/we did, along with a steady stream of would-be buyers. …

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  • full nelson

    We’ve coveted a Nelson Saucer for eons, but they’re fairly pricey so we held off. Then two bargain opportunities in as many weeks. First, a friend offered a choice of saucers he’d picked up in San Francisco (thanks Justin!) but they were in pretty rough shape. We thought hard, but ultimately decided the imperfections (marks/small …

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