Boys and Toys

We have a decent amount of new friends around the blog these days, so I thought it might be time for a round-up ( ... . And of course, little houses for all of us.We're currently making plans to replace the old house ... more pleasant. Ideas have ranged from a cabin to a simple house to a park model RV to a ...Well, this is where [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 16:31:00

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Release Day!

A good friend of mine has her first book out with BookStrand Publishing ( A division of Siren Publishing) ... business and plans to tear down the old house. Katie wants the house to remain and is willing to fight for it. The people of Treehaven believe the old farmhouse is haunted. Katie [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:05:00

Are Banks Utilities?

Is "Capitalism2" - where my bank is as bland as my natural gas provider - our only path after the economic lessons of 2008? ... , and since you're conservative with money, you're sitting on an old school LARGE down payment of $60,000 cash. All parties are ready, the moving plans are made, and your old house is already sold. You wake [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:08:31

Presevationists Rally Around Historic Farmhouse

It's not often that a historic preservation battle focuses on and old farmhouse ... plans to move the 139-year-old Mumford House, which was named for the school's original Dean of Agriculture. The house reportedly stands in the way of new landscaped plaza and bell tower.This "Model [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:00

The Availability of Foreclosed Houses has made Habitat Change its Methods

Till 2009, Habit for Humanity followed its own beaten track of putting deserving families into the right houses. It collected donations to purchase land and then build the house from the foundation by using ... to do some rethinking. It is now planning to refurbish the old abandoned house in addition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:19:54

Massive Changes

Again! While neither Jess or I could be at the house to document the action - our amazing crew demolished the darkroom and removed the old duct work ... this old house” project to a 1 week “extreme home makeover” episode…they don’t use plans on that show ... and the furnace! The other good news was someone actually took the old fridge home with them, so [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:02:06

Family Finds Man Living in their Attic

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - One family’s Christmas wasn’t very merry due to an unexpected guest to come visit for the holidays ... and noticing a laptop, cash, and a new ipod had dissapeared. Her father, the owner of the duplex ... of the plans the 21 year old un-welcomed house guest emerged from attic willingly. Stanley Carter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 01:05:52

Stalk of the Town

Katelyn has, as usual, what feels like several dozen shows to attend this weekend ... at Snoqualmie. Sunday is for laundry and replacing some janky old door knobs around the house. Jay has no plans to appear in public this weekend, for a welcomed change! MvB is spending Friday's happy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:00:00

The Trick Garage & Wacky Windows

The Pugh + Scarpa Vail Grant Residence is old school in terms of architecture, but I’m not so sure I’ve ever talked about it here ... from renderings or models? Well, with this house I like the plans as much as the finished product ... ) but I had a little family emergency (nothing big). Tags: cool house plans, cool renderings, lake views [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:00:12

Home Design News - January 2009

Home Design News - January 2009 By admin | 13th Jan 2009 | Filed under Newsletters HAPPY NEW YEAR! ... and business practice.  This month’s featured plans are a good example of the variety to be found on our website. The Prichard is old-fashioned simplicity of a ranch style house plan perfect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:53:39

The Next Recyclingwatch

The Unquiet Dead: Christmas Dickensiana, also featuring homeless aliens trying to take over the Earth ... with the converted; Cybermen chasing people through the corridors and back staircases of an old house ... creatures whose merging doesn't quite go according to plan, leading to an internal power struggle between [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:06:00

Silence

And so this is Christmas Day - yet again.  I sit here at my blank computer screen and try to entice various words to take shape before my eyes ... our batteries, take stock, renew the family bond, talk about old times, make plans, share hopes ... happily alone in the back lane behind our house in Railway View, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary.  I could [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 15:00:00

McCain mocks Obama's premature inauguration plans, but...

John McCain has mocked Democrat Barack Obama all week as so cocky that he is already “measuring the drapes” in the White House Oval Office ... video by clicking on the Read more line below) in a newspaper story on White House transition planning ... was confirmed. Addressing a sun-washed rally in the Old West plaza of historic Mesilla, in southern New [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 02:26:02

Migration, taxes and work patterns

Mark Perry has an interesting look at how successful taxes and unions are when it comes to attracting a workforce ... his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado. With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to move his family 1,200 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:23:58

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady Setting Up House?

Gisele Bundchen’s noviocito Tom Brady bought a house. A big, big house ... canyons - comes with plans for an 11,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style manse by award-winning ... . A house so big, it would make about three or so of your abuelito’s old world hacienda. New [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 19:17:56

Tuesday Traps: The Xmas Files

T’was the night before Christmas and throughout the guildhouse, no thief was stirring, not even the king mouse… ... s an Eladrin,” claimed another, “that’s how he gets into everyone’s house.” Nervous whispers flew around ... old man with a whole lot of toys, and this year our plan is foolproof!” For many rogues, Father [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 08:40:45

Shoppin'

We finally got the floor plans for our house!!!! And y'all know what that means!!!!??!?!!? I can finally start decorating in my head! ... one in an old victorian with bright white molding.. Gorgeous! eeeeeee! Our house closes on Feb 10th, I can't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 03:12:00

Link Time!

Link Time! 33 min 22 sec ago by casasugar 7 Views - 0 comments Black interiors are chic and trendy. — The Style Files Discover 10 smart uses for coffee filters beyond the Mr. Coffee. — This Old House Take a shopping trip in Mill Valley. — Domino's Daily Dose Planning some remodeling? Check [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 21:00:27

Californication

They've wrecked their home state with their left-liberalism ... Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado. With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:30:00

Sacramento Mortgage Delinquency Rate Approaches 7%

From the Sacramento Bee: 6.8 percent...of residential mortgages in El Dorado, Placer, ... was diagnosed with cancer so we had to push back our plans a bit. We purchased this house in West Texas in April ... for the sprawling, 8-year-old Natomas Park development hired Paladin Security. The community has endured [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 22:21:40

Why decorating?

This is an antique German armoire we bought at Carl Moore Antiques in Houston many years ago ... by her regularly.Next, we built our home in Virginia.  I poured over hundreds if not thousands of house plans ... .  We used to keep a television in it but now it is home to many of my old decorating magaizines [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 15:16:00

Lord Willing and if the Creek Don’t Rise

Hark! What is that I see through yonder passenger-side truck window? An outhouse! And it looks like a good one! ... and the foundation remains of the long-ago home it once served. Between the house in its sunny meadow ... they have to really plan ahead? It’s no short jaunt over to that old outhouse. I walk the creekbank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 07:05:34

No Time like the Present: Repurposing Christmas Decorations

It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to salvage from the old one! ... , and plans ahead. So today I thought I'd show you a few of the post-Christmas sale finds I'd gotten ... seemed just right at home in my house...Here are a couple of purple and silver tree-topper-type stars [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 12:00:00

No Fuckin' Way Man, You Know He's Real

A month or so ago I was hanging out with an old friend, shooting the shit, when I got a wild hair up my ass and said to him " ... a road trip during my three weeks of vacation in February.Our only question was "Where to?"Pinky ... ? Philadelphia? Cincinnati? Somewhere in Kentucky?One of these days, I plan on road-tripping to The House [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:11:00

A new baby.

Santa brought her a new baby (and a new stroller that Santa and Grandma Bev worked on together). So I had big plans of uploading the remainder of my Christmas shots today ... either). Oh, and that's inside the new, old house.  I just painted those olive green walls [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:04:27

Part 3~Swedish Love~Lantlif

A visit with Anette and her lovely blog Lantlif~ ... in an old house with my husband and two daughters. We have a dog, Nisse, he is a West Highland White ... plans do you have for yourself and Lantlif: I want to remodel our kitchen and repaint our veranda [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:16:11

Blogging Hiatus

It has been a month since I last posted on this blog ... my callings, to create a "HOUSE OF ORDER"...more on that later) that I haven't had much time ... to spend in DC because we had dinner plans with more old DC friends in New York. Here is Oliver [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:39:00

Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep

WASHINGTON—George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States of America, passed away painlessly in his sleep Monday night, White House sources confirmed. The 62-year-old Bush was reportedly discovered lying unresponsive ... dead of natural causes at 7:24 a.m. Plans for Bush's funeral have been postponed indefinitely [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:23:00

Coco Arquette: Jennifer Aniston is Nouna!

Courteney Cox (in Marc Jacobs) works the red carpet at the premiere of Bedtime Stories at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday (December 18) ... plans: “Christmas is insane in our house. I say: ‘Let’s buy Coco one good toy,’ but he wants to buy ... in Los Angeles. The 44-year-old Friends star recently opens up to UK’s Mail on Sunday: On making [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 19:23:59

Coco Arquette: Jennifer Aniston is Noona!

Courteney Cox (in Marc Jacobs) works the red carpet at the premiere of Bedtime Stories at the El Capitan Theatre on Thursday (December 18) ... plans: “Christmas is insane in our house. I say: ‘Let’s buy Coco one good toy,’ but he wants to buy ... in Los Angeles. The 44-year-old Friends star recently opens up to UK’s Mail on Sunday: On making [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 19:23:59

Old News by digby In another example of angry, vitriolic, hate-filled left wing blogging, a number of us were writing and discussing, ... between unsavory characters involved in Iran-Contra, the Office of Special Plans, AEI --- the whole shoddy ... of the White House. The many interconnecting webs seem to lead to and through the forged Niger [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 18:31:06

Tory recession ad uses bankrupt builder

Oh dear, these Joe the Plumber attack ads don’t really work do they? ... had struggled because of the recession. But Companies House records show the 51-year-old father-of-four’ ... . More at the Liverpool Daily Post. The ad is as fatuous as their own economic plans. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 13:57:23

OT: What Are Your Plans for Thanksgiving?

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? We are staying local again this year and celebrating with my wife’s family. This Thanksgiving will mark one year since my dad visited our house for the last time before ... out his old wooden red toolbox and said, “You want dibs on this toolbox?” I wanted to cry. I knew [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:00:29

Painting the trim.

Is it silly to have blogging goals?  Maybe “goals” is the wrong word ... .  (I’ll be 32 years old in a few weeks!) I have no plans to take the site down or relaunch or “re ... m the kind of woman who likes to move the furniture around in her house to give things a fresh look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:11:10

I Say “In With The Old!”

Dolores and I visiting a historic site in Tulsa this past October. Both of us resolve to see more of them in 2009. 2009 is right around the corner. As we all make exciting plans to celebrate the new year ... , the Robie House and Unity Temple. The Pui Tak Center taught me about the history of Chinese [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:18:03

Recent events:)

  Success!  Yesterday we got a new computer, after having the same one for well over 6 years and working with the same old programs, ... , but the powers that be had other plans for me!  My leg was swollen up about 1 and 1/2 times the size of the other one & hurt like hell, but we all thought I had strained it in getting the house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 22:21:12

Old Marine Graveyard

Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense ...  Obama, according to officials in both parties. Obama plans to announce a national-security team early ... House senior adviser, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”: “The president-elect was clear throughout [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:18:07

A Change of Plans

I posted several weeks ago about our dream to build our house on the river...the shovels were ready to go ( ... change in plans by now)...and so...WE BOUGHT IT...this incredible almost 100-year-old farmhouse ... for that special one-of-a-kind farmhouse sink)...well...in the middle of the hunt for things with a history [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 06:49:00

An introduction from the banking “Pup”

Hi, First I want to thank all of you for making me feel so welcomed as one of the newest members of the Bloodhounds ... .   My 18 year old will be attending Calvin College in the fall to pursue a nursing career.  She plans ... s just say life is never boring at our house! One of the questions that I enjoy asking others in the real [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 13:46:07

Amy Winehouse is buying a country house for her and Blake

Amy Winehouse is planning on splashing out a whopping $1.5 million on a secret country home where she can get her act together. Word is that she plans ... from signing the papers for the 150 year-old farmhouse. It has seven bedrooms, three sitting rooms [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 16:34:34

Grandma Daisy

Ben Blair took the big kids to a movie (Bedtime Stories) and the little ones are asleep. Which means I have a quiet house all to myself (lovely) ... a couple of days ago — on December 23rd. Technically, it was kidney failure. But mostly, it was old ... cutwork in the metal. I loved it instantly and all plans for jade rings immediately went [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 20:48:58

Home Loan

When I went home for a vacation last month, I met some of my old friends again. It was so nice seeing some of them ... and distance! So we were chatting about our life, family and our plans. One friend shared how she wants to have her new house early next year. And since they are still applying for a home loan, I think the said [more...]

Date: 2008-07-31 14:06:38

Obama's 'Organizing For America'

Obama's 'Organizing For America' January 17, 2009 President-elect Barack Obama, en route to D.C ... House. There aren't a lot of details on what Obama plans to use this organization for, although ... . for his inauguration celebration via an old-fashioned whistle-stop train tour, sent a video [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:44:50

Dukes and Duchesses

So many crafty people around Christmas time..............I'm starting to feel a bit inadequate since I still haven't done much in the creative dept........Oh I have plans........but so far I have yet to make a ginger bread house and the only ... , but it could be and it sure would make a great gift. She made this out of an old ceiling tile [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 03:01:00

Clara's Perfect Mystery

There's no better way to get a read on what concerned people in the past than to look at the classified ads in old newspapers - they can tell you about what kinds of jobs and houses people wanted, things they had lost, what was for sale ... Times on 1855 that struck me. I'm planning to use it in my NaNoWriMo Victorian mystery, and I thought [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 14:26:00

Dead Pigeons, The Kid from Jerry Maguire & Other Past Inauguration Guests

The crowd at Barack Obama’s momentous inauguration will include a number of special guests, ... of guests flooded the White House for a celebration of the populist leader that quickly devolved ... s plans went awry when he got up to read his new work, though. The 87-year-old poet no longer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:52:00

If U.S. Attorneys Resign When A New President Is Elected, Why Did Clinton Fire 93 Of Them?

Think Progress is in a tizzy because U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan has no plans to resign: Indeed, when a new president is elected, U.S ... off the House Post Office investigation of Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. The network ... mentions, with only NBC noting the Rosty angle. Only NBC’s Garrick Utley kept the old outrage, declaring [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 07:05:01

Bush's Parting Shots to the Old and Sick, Part 1: A Gift to Privatized Medicare

Having spent eight years bypassing the laws of the land via signing statements, executive orders, or just simple denial, ... , and two months earlier than the previous year--ahead of the changing of the White House guard ... Services (CMS) to assure continued leniency in the oversight of private plans for at least another year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:40:52

10 Tips to Keep Identity Theft from Ruining Holiday Travel Plans

From Brian Lapidus, Chief Operating Officer for Kroll Fraud Solutions Attention Holiday Travelers: ... old rubber tree to a caretaker while you’re gone, put identity-rich items away before you hand over the house key. Don’t leave out tax returns, credit card statements, utility bills and the like. It’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 06:24:11

The Old Homestead...But With An Hour And A Half Wait

My parents are fascinated by Brooklyn. As much as they enjoy my little forced marches/tours through the sights of Manhattan, ... of DUMBO, Vinegar Hill House, I figured it was a must for this season's Kirschbaum Tour de Brooklyn ... , immediately made plans with the family to trek out to the wild yonder this past Sunday night.After [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:00:00

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