Tag: This Old Apartment (Building)
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Stairs, Black and White
Stairs, Black and White iPhone with post processing May 2011 View On White
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Stairs
Stairs iPhone with post processing May 2011 View On White
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I just learned our toilet is the original thing
A few kind of interesting facts about the apartment building we live in, which was built around 1910. It was once a luxury apartment building. One column of apartments is quite small and these apartments were used by butlers and maids who served the tenants. Some of the apartments have hidden safes. We don’t have…
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Active Memorial Day Weekend
A really good incentive to immediately wash your dishes after dinner and take out the trash is because you never know when the police are going to be trekking through your apartment to get to the back courtyard. At least the place was tidy otherwise.
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Mid April Ghostlies
Aaron’s spooked. Late night before last I heard 4 distinct knocks seeming to come from the middle of the room and there was no source for them that I know of (and I know this apartment well). I mentioned it and late last night Aaron insisted he saw two shadows. Aaron sometimes won’t sleep in…
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They didn’t have an oven either, so they grilled
We came home from eating out last night to find a small, windowless van parked beside the apartment and people quietly grilling their dinner in the dark alongside the trash bins outside the bedroom window. They spent the night.
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No Oven
The landlord is preparing to cart old broke stove/oven out the door. He’s taking it to a repairman tomorrow. We will have no stove/oven for days, I guess.
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Why I Love This Old Apartment Building
Marty’s off to New York for a couple of days and, as H.o.p. was going to be missing him, Marty prepared yesterday a big pot of red beans that would simmer and simmer and simmer and be prime eating by the time Marty was doing the sound check for his gig. So while Marty was…
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Woke up, made coffee, stepped outside to watch the Peachtree Road Race
We woke up, made coffee, then stepped outside to watch the finish of the Peachtree Road Race. 10 or so cases of bottled water were sitting in the hall. Above is the winner in the men’s division, Ethiopian Terefe Maregu. Yes, from the rear, but I was clapping as he came running by (we were…
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The Rain Check
H.o.p. is posting some of his comics again over on his blog. On top of all the other drawings he does, and still making a lot of neat little sculptures, he’s churning out about 6 Angsley, Kitty and Catter cartoons a day this week. On Monday, while the landlord was here with his helper fixing…
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Friends don't let friends use Behr paint
This past weekend I painted the kitchen and Marty painted the bathroom. Friends don’t let friends use Behr paint. The thing is, the wide world web had ample opportunity to warn me, “DON’T USE THE BEHR PAINT! IT IS THIN! IT DRIPS! AND DRIPS SOME MORE! THEN DRIPS LOTS LOTS LOTS MORE WHEN YOU’RE NOT…
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Po'Boys and Paint
There we are driving down Boulevard on our way to get ice cream for H.o.p. and I see a pint-size purple restaurant with a couple of tables outside and customers headed inside and big letters proclaiming honest to god New Orleans PO’BOYS! Marty had already proposed eating out, which I’d nixed, though we were all…