Month: May 2006

This is something that Stephanie and I have been meaning to go to– to see the houses that are not ours in spectacular states of repair, and lust after all those things in a historic home that we can’t possibly afford, in a neighborhood that is less than a half mile from ours in geography,…

In between all of the witty and pithy comments on the renovation travails, let’s not forget that part of this blog is to help us discover the beauty that is Yonkers. I found a very good website by Yonkers artist Chris Semergieff (website at www.semergieff.com) that does just that. Chris (and truthfully, I’m not sure…

As has been usual so far this year, I’ve been flying around the country like a madwoman, with barely enough time to reload my suitcase let alone get anything done in the house. Last week I did a 28-hour trip to Austin (left at 5:00 am on Thursday from NYC, left at 5:00 am on…

Stephanie was out of town visiting her folks in Chicago and doing some work at a conference, so I had the house to myself this week (well, if you include the parade of workers that come by here on a semi-regular basis, including the mysteriously named FX, who is a good egg and has proved…

Yonkers is on a every other week recycling schedule– one week it’s paper, the next week it’s mixed media (plastic, glass,metal) It’s confusing to remember– and they have a very cool book, but I am always misplacing it! And the City of Yonkers website has it, but you have to download the whole thing as…

Things are going a little crazy here. In addition to all of the stuff going on inside– there’s all this green stuff growing on the outside of the house. And apparently somebody has to tame it. And apparently that somebody is me. Considering that our house has a little plot of green among a sea…