Hilltop Gothic

Renovating/restoring my c. 1875 vernacular Gothic Revival workingman's cottage located in a neighborhood of mostly late-19th-century homes on a narrow, steep, little street.

Spring Is Finally Here!

Authors: Durf

Without any enormous painting jobs hanging over my head, I feel a real sense of freedom to goof off and have fun.  We have an annual all-town tag sale and Historic Society huge book sale in April and my sister and I had fun checking everything out.  I've also been snapping pictures of beautiful spring-flowering shrubs, trees...

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Easter 2013

Authors: Durf

Oh, how I love Easter and the whole Holy Week experience.  The lows, then the highs.  It's the ultimate.
Well this year I finally was prepared enough to have a clean house and nice meal.  Plus I actually put out decorations.  I tried to force forsythia but it still hasn't bloomed!  Oh, well, next time I'll know...

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Dreaming of This

Authors: Durf

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

It's just a little hard to remember because we just got slammed with another foot of snow.  This snowstorm was wet and heavy.  At my job 15 miles away there were only a few inches.  The high elevations got the most, and this is the hilltop, after all.
I'm so anxious...

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Oh, Charlotte, how could you!?

Authors: Durf


Poor arborvitae.Wow, no more smugly thinking that this winter was a breeze.  Here I sit, sick as a dog, for the second time this month.  No more smugly thinking that I'll get through this winter untouched by germs.
I don't remember this much snow in one storm before.  I think this tops the blizzard of 1978.  It...

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Bathroom Before, During and After

Authors: Durf

This project took a long time to complete, like maybe two years?  That's my ADD, inability to finish projects, kicking in.  But then I got hurt.  It was nearly complete; so close, and yet so far.  So this past weekend I finally reinstalled the doorknob and strike plate!  Now people can be assured that the door...

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Christmas in New York

Authors: Durf

Some friends and I went to New York to see the Rockettes.  Can you believe I couldn't remember if I'd seen them before?  Seems to me I went with my cousin in the late '80's for the Easter show.  Anyway, New York is always an adventure, what with the subway deaths and all.  A country girl like myself finds it a...

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Happy New Year!

Authors: Durf

Carly wishes everyone a very happy New Year.  She's loving the radiator cover even more with the Christmas material on top.

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Christmas 2012

Authors: Durf

Here are some Christmas decoration shots.  I removed garlands from the tree since it seems that that is no longer in style.



 

The parlor is so small I can't keep the television out of the shot.
 I finally hung curtains in the living room.  I love them!  I had bought the tab top curtains from Country Curtains when...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Authors: Durf


This is my favorite holiday.  What could be better than thanking God for all our blessings?  And we have many.  There are people all over the world without the simple things we take for granted.  Victims of disasters on the eastern seaboard, in Haiti, Japan, Israel, Afghanistan, Africa.  So many sad things.
This...

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See the difference?

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My co-workers thought it would be a good idea if I painted above the porch before the new roof goes on Wednesday.  So I've been working like a dog trying to git 'her done  I don't usually work more than two days in a row due to my carpal tunnel syndrome, and exhaustion.  It took 4 1/2 hours to prime, twice as long as I...

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