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About Me

Anachronisms, spider plant babies, 78rpm, narrow escapes, escaping, plaster and lathe, anthracite, aspidistras, gin, sepia tone, architraves, freizes and cornices, doing things properly, dusty attics, things you find in dusty attics.

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My Blog

An Even Longer Journey

The Monday before Thanksgiving I went on a bike ride with John to Valley Forge. The trip was extremely safe. Virtually all of it took place on a paved trail along the Schuylkill River. I was a litt...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:00 GMT

The Longest Journey

This past weekend on Sunday I rode with John to Pennypack Park in Northeast Philadelphia. Of course I was a little intimidated by the prospect, but since I was going with a much more experienced cycl...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Paint your inn

Who would think that I'd be printing out photos of the Woodlands mansion as an example of something at work.  That something would be the fact that our client decided to strip off all the stucco on a ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:59:00 GMT

What is going on right now, no now, right now.

Sometimes people can be quite ridiculous, like when someone you had a date with goes about broadcasting to the world how angry he is at everything, everyone and so forth...without so much as a word to...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:14:00 GMT

This morning, May the 27th 2007

So how's about this, last night I got caught in a rainstorm. As Geoffrey said once about a snowstorm, "if this was Hollywood, it would look fake" A big red splotch on the doppler radar passed right ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 07:24:00 GMT

On the quiz as a bulletin

I was going to say something extremely biting and cold but it's late and I fear losing half my friends list.  However, if you post quizzes,...any quizzes as bulletins just delete me now as a friend so...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:22:00 GMT

This is about as close to Stream of Conciousness as I get.

My left eye is twitching.  it's been doing that off and on lately.  It means I'm under stress or something.  I had a biking accident when my tires got caught in trolley tracks on 40th s...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 19:01:00 GMT

Just popped into my head

I had a great appraising session over the phone watching the antiques road show with Geoffery.  We were remarkable good at guessing what things were worth.  Quilts are overpriced. so are old...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:10:00 GMT

De-IKEA-ing the place

IKEA is a good idea for people who need an entire apartment of furniture in an instant and who dont feel like picking up pieces one by one or who haven't any suitable hand me downs. So this is why fiv...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:34:00 GMT

I want:

I want: A hairwreath under glass to hang on my wall. A Regina Music Box A punch ladel Dinner with Roman Punch in the middle A cherry pitter To fire all SEPTA workers. To repaint my living ro...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:09:00 GMT