http://theoldvictorian.com/blog Renovation of a Dream Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:41:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en *schhniiick* "Full power restored." "Excellent! More than a match for poor Enter...." Oh...wait...that's a different movie. Ah well. This weekend was a change. A real change. I'm not quite sure what to make of it yet. See, for the first time in like 4 months...it wasn't raining (or 10 degrees!) all weekend. Wow! ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/03/08/full-power-restored/ No pictures this week. Just cleaning, and scraping paint. We had nice weather, but too short a weather window (rain starting Sunday night) to get to work on the roof or the exterior door painting. Instead, we concentrated on scraping the paint off the billion or so linear feet of beadboard ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/03/01/scraaaaaaaaapppppe/ Make your plans now! This year the 2010 Clarksville Fine Arts Festival will be Saturday, May 22, 2010, from 9:AM to 4:PM on the historic square in Clarksville, Texas. This year's festival is shaping up to be a great one. There will even be glass blowing demonstrations! I'll be there signing books ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/02/25/the-2010-clarksville-fine-arts-festival/ Was wondering why my work shoes were a bit uncomfortable lately... Pulled all these out of the right shoe. CUAgain, Daniel Meyer http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/02/20/foot-pain/ Those that have been following along our various adventures with old buildings might recall that we bought an 1890(ish) gothic debatable commercial building, complete with tower. This building has been a pharmacy downstairs since it was built. It's been rearranged a couple times, some merchandise no longer carried, the soda fountain ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/02/15/orange-juice/ I ordered the shakes for our 1880's Gothic Debatable tower today. I'm replacing all the cedar on it. Got some trim work around the edge of the roof to do as well. Oh, and a couple pieces of tin to fabricate. 12 cartons...96 shingles/carton. 3 different patterns (fancy-ing this up just ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/02/10/whoosh-the-sound-of-money-departing-at-high-speed-and-volume/ ...ya take one down and pass it around...98 bags of trash on the wall... Okay, I freely admit it...I can't sing. I once had someone tell me that at gunpoint...but that's another story. Anyway, this weekend. Trash. Lots of it. Not much as far as cool pictures this weekend...we had priming to do...an ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/02/07/99-bags-of-trash-on-the-wall-99-bags-of-trash/ No work for me this weekend. Resting. Processing. Recuperating. Recharging. I putter. Watching some TV. Listening to music. Reading. Writing. Plotting my next project. Sunday I manage a nap…and for the first time in days, my dreams don’t wake me in a cold sweat, yelling for people to get down…to run…to get ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/01/25/normalcy/ I started this week as a juror on what seemed a fairly mundane case. The prosecution's case was very carefully put together. He knew his business. The defense had nothing. There was no reasonable doubt. There was no doubt at all. The verdict was inevitable, and even with our diverse jury, ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/01/22/wheres-the-damn-erase-button/ Well, with forcast temperatures in the teens, we decided we wouldn't be getting much work done this weekend. Painting? Uh, no. Not only do I not want to be outside, but the paint would be somewhat solidified. We may have lost some paint anyway...since some of it was stored in parts ... http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/2010/01/09/the-weekend-off/