Month: September 2006
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The Crack House has been sold!
I was a little late picking up Stephanie at the train station yesterday, because I was speaking to the new owner of the house across the street (the one that we have affectionately dubbed “The Crack House”) For followers of our blog, this is the very house that during the winter and early spring housed…
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Dinner at somebody else’s house
So last night, while Stephanie was in Tampa on a combined business/pleasure trip (mostly business, but her mom lives in FL, so they hung out for a day) I ended up going to a Yonkers party that was quite nice. My blog buddy Lesley and her husband Stephen had a little belated housewarming, and they…
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Watering the sidewalk in the fabulous city of Yonkers…
As I was watering the sidewalk this morning, I met a bunch of people who liked what we were doing to the house. Yes, I was watering the sidewalk. Here’s the full story: Early in the year, I received a summons from the fabulous city of Yonkers, requiring us to have our sidewalk fixed. And…
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Back in the land of the toilet seats!
At our recent party, one of our friends commented on one of our high-end innovations– the non-slam toilet seat. He said “This might be the greatest invention ever.” For those of you not in the know, the toilet seat is designed with some kind of special do-hickey thing that prohibits the toilet seat from slamming…