Omar; Will and Bob in the truck; tired Madonna and child; everyone's looking for Fifi (I found her on the neighbor's porch); fireworks as seen from the second floor of our house.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Saturday, June 30th
I'd post pictures today but I can't find the USB device that allows me to transfer pictures from the camera.
Crawling out of bed we found the power was still out. So Jennifer and I went to get coffee and tea, being that our stove is electric.
Jennifer left to get the truck and Christopher, I packed and staged stuff. They returned around 10am, then Omar came, then my sister, brother-in-law and my nephew. We packed the U-haul and a pickup, and my sister, Omar, Cara and I stayed behind to pack more.
We got a second load off in the afternoon and we are calling it quits for awhile. More later.
Crawling out of bed we found the power was still out. So Jennifer and I went to get coffee and tea, being that our stove is electric.
Jennifer left to get the truck and Christopher, I packed and staged stuff. They returned around 10am, then Omar came, then my sister, brother-in-law and my nephew. We packed the U-haul and a pickup, and my sister, Omar, Cara and I stayed behind to pack more.
We got a second load off in the afternoon and we are calling it quits for awhile. More later.
Friday, June 29th - night time
We got home to celebrate Cara's graduation. That went well enough until we got home to our old apartment for our last night. The power went out. The place is dark and gloomy to begin with, and this made it worse. To add insult to injury, only our complex suffered the outage.
So we went to dinner for oysters. Came back and the power was still out. I think it is still out NOW, the next day.
So we went to dinner for oysters. Came back and the power was still out. I think it is still out NOW, the next day.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Friday, June 29th
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Thursday, June 28th
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
More newspaper snips from the inside of the walls
Weird to think that Columbus Day was thought of as an Italian holiday once.
Fiberglass insulation like we have today was not invented yet when my house was built. People used to pack newspaper in the walls or staple it to the sheathing to prevent drafts from coming in. It was rather dangerous, really, but it's what they knew and what they did.
We've found several newspapers in our walls, dated late in 1913. We are beginning to think that the house was built that year, and not 1920, as was advertized to us. Why would someone keep newspapers up to seven years so they could put them in a wall?
Here are more snippets from those newspapers. We found more mention of the Harry Thaw trials, as well as interesting pieces that seem a little anti-Italian.
Wednesday, June 27
Today I caved in and we got a U-Haul. My friend Chris (the one who won't let me take his picture) helped me move the big stuff while Jennifer - in her turn-on outfit of cutoffs and pigtails - worked the walls some more (yes, the cutoffs are a turn-on for me).
Cara joined us for lunch and then helped Mom empty the house of debris, making her own cutoffs out of necessity. Now we have to buy her more jeans :-(
It was a very productive day. Jennifer was very happy to have removed more walls and she sprayed the already open ones with bleach and water. One wall in the kitchen, from which she removed paneling, had some handwritten surprises. Cara added her own message to me, a running joke between the two of us.
Chris was a MAJOR help. We moved the heaviest things - including the anvil and the bar - and did it in two truckloads.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tuesday, June 26
The heat started getting to Jennifer today. I got a bucket of cold water for her feet when she started languishing.
I got worn out the two prior days, suffering from bad headaches by day's end.
The tree is gone, the garage is filling up, there is a new dumpster, and the stairwell walls are coming down.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Monday, June 25th
Old newspapers that Jennifer found in the walls. One talks about Harry K. Thaw, known for shooting Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit. If you saw the movie Ragtime you might know about this.
The house, as we left this afternoon.
The house, as we left this afternoon.
The mailman makes his first delivery.
The crew enjoys a respite. Jennifer hit it off with our next door neighbor shortly after this photo was taken, and talked to him about half an hour. Yep, he is. Laura and I had a laugh over that.
View of the dumpster that we filled this day.
The newspaper.
The crew enjoys a respite. Jennifer hit it off with our next door neighbor shortly after this photo was taken, and talked to him about half an hour. Yep, he is. Laura and I had a laugh over that.
View of the dumpster that we filled this day.
The newspaper.
There was also a mention of a horse thief from Brewster caught locally.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Finn At The House
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