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Apr.07.2013
Photo: The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, Manhattan
I realized recently that I have a book-hoarding problem. You know, like those people on the show Hoarders, who have psychotic breaks when a professional therapist, visiting the squalid house, tells them that...
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Mar.27.2013
I've been a bit quiet for a few days because along with disaproving of the vast quantity of my possessions the nice realtor lady thought that I ought to get a structural engineer to look at the crack in one of my retaining walls, my house is built into a hill, more about that in a jiffy, and the...
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Feb.17.2013
We heard a familiar sound on Friday night, like someone was working a saw underneath the house.
Rat!
Could it be? Really? We called our guy back. He looked for an entrance point. None was found.
Maybe they burrowed in?
He seemed doubtful. More likely one was...
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Nov.22.2012
When I was a child we lived in a house that looked like an old Dutch farm house. Since we were one of the few families in town who were Dutch, it made sense.
The house was a crazy quilt. Our basement was like an old root cellar. To go there we had to go out the back door,...
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Nov.01.2012
Photo: Jackson asleep on the couch. A colleague said he looked "angelic" in this picture. True dat. What can you say when your dog is more photogenic than you are?
Been away for awhile again, this time because my dog's been very ill, to the extent that I...
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Oct.08.2012
Photo: Old glove from keymancollectibles.com. The one I bought looks much like this one. This one is in better shape, but mine's older. Yeah, yeah, condition is everything, I know.
Sorry I've been gone for the past many days. I was really ill, and my PC is under plastic...
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Sep.28.2012
Kafka has been adapted on stage, screen, video, gamer games, and in the comics. These adaptations encircle the globe. So why not devote a whole house to an absurdest interpretation of his work? And do it in Prague. And do it is Czech. And wear wigs in the process. And have the garden covered in...
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Aug.27.2012
On the Island of red mud and red hair, an historic house related to Anne of Green Gables is up for sale. Time and the tides wait for no headstrong lass.
The 134-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum has been put up for sale by one of her descendants. (Ryan Hicks/CBC...
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Jul.10.2012
So now I bring your attention to http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com. This is a website, also a little old and I don't know when it was last updated, about a guy who essentially is like the MacGyver we all want to be in, and around, our own homes. He has gardens that could...
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