Author: doug

You find out a lot about people when you buy their house.  For an example, we had no idea they were the type of people who would…

…put a paper clip down the garbage disposal.  You’ll note there’s still some paper attached — my guess is the IRS was at the door.

Our house has a number of well-established (some would say over-established) foundation plantings.  You saw Lis’s picture of our azaleas earlier in the spring; now the rhododendon bushes are in their full glory.

I have to say, the supposedly very nice rhododendrons at the old house never looked this good.

I stepped out the front door this morning, only to discover that I had left my camera inside.  Why did I need my camera so early, you ask?  Because there was a family of raccoons in the storm drain in front of the house.

This family may have just found a comfortable place to spend the day, or they may be semi-permanent residents of the storm sewer.  Either way I think I’m glad we don’t have a vegetable garden.

Betsy is in from out of town, and she, David, and Linda visited us for dinner tonight.

I made a pilgrimage to Penzeys today.

I had been holding off buying more spices until we were more settled into the new kitchen.

One of our favorite grill-season meals is spit-roasted chicken.

We have finally unearthed both the spit and its motor, and did not suffer a power failure during cooking like we did last time we tried this.

I’ve been intending to take this picture for a while now, but tonight I finally got around to it.

You are looking straight up from our foyer to the ceiling on the 3rd floor.  I may try again in the daylight — when I’m sure the mood will be entirely different.

On my way into work this morning, despite the overcast & drizzle, I saw the moon.

Oh wait, that’s the WGBH billboard thing.

Sorry for the blurriness, but I had like 1/2 a second to take the picture when traffic slowed.

Our house is clean!  Our cleaning service that we had in Southboro has followed us to Newton, which we are immensely glad about.  They came today for the first time in the new house, which desperately needed their attention.

Not least among the reasons we’re glad to keep Walter is that he knows Winnie, and she tolerates him.

I reglazed about half the windows in the Hooker House (college apartment on Hooker Ave in Somerville) as a college student to help pay the rent.  It looks like now I’ll get to do it again, but this time the homeowner I’ll be helping out will be myself.  You may think that 1 1/2″ putty knife you use to spackle holes in your walls is made for that — it’s not; it’s made for applying putty to seal the glass into the window.