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When we moved into our house it came with an “old style” top freezer refrigerator. We had a side-by-side that we brought with us that was much more modern, and had a built in icemaker and water dispenser, henceforth known as the “good” fridge. Unfortunately, there was no water line to where the refrigerator is…
You know what’s great about getting early snow when you’re building a house on top of a hill in ski country? Nothing. Progress slowed down considerably since last update, although there were still some key accomplishments. #1 – Windows all got installed: #2 – Roofing all got installed. We were told that they couldn’t get…
Fix Buffalo has an interesting idea for a reuse of Transfiguration Church – tearing down the broken parts and leaving the shell surrounding an interesting urban park. I think that’s the best idea I’ve heard for Transfiguration so far. The building is in very rough shape, and frankly it’s just not likely that it’s going…
I’ve said it many times before – I’m completely fine with urban development in the city. I’m even fine with urban development in suburban villages. So why is it that those that love the urban lifestyle are so vehemently against the suburban environment? On Buffalo Rising, we find this post about an urbanist who ventured…
The debate raged on [and off] for years, but in the end the Atwater house disappeared in a flash. Elmwoodies went limp and vow never to eat at Pano’s again, but the losses will be easily offset by the future gain in parking spaces, and hopefully a completely rebuilt building that will show there’s true…
I was thinking about writing an update on Facebook about the latest in our home building adventure when I remembered – hey – we have our own blog. We pretty much stopped writing here when Facebook and Twitter got popular, exchanging blogging for microblogging. But since microblogging became social media which is now mostly everyone…