The Historic District

Hard to believe those are all photos of the same house. Some of that is so garish.

Also hard to believe the same man who invented a plain and boring breakfast designed to kill sexual desire also owned such a gaudy house, including a leopard print elevator .

P1200068.jpg It snowed for a couple days last week. Yes, snow in September. I've started putting in an exterior french drain on this side. The footer and base of foundation have been tarred; drain tile is in below slab level with proper drop; and there's a dimpled membrane -- but the base of the fo...

> Your summer cottage looks very similar to many summer cottages built in Canada during the 20’s through to the 50’s. Can you think of any examples? I'd love to see. > I wonder what the guy in the pic is doing That's an older lady who always lived with my great-grandparents, and she's raking hay. Pa...

Hello. I recently took over my family summer cottage. My great-grandparents had it built in 1937, and lived there and raised my grandma and her siblings for roughly the warmer 6 months of every year. It is perhaps not so old, but for some context, Iceland had an extended "dark ages" which it didn't ...