Category Archives: Miscellaneous

For everything NOT in a page category.

And then there’s this…

Somebody drove a car through the fence at the Old Vic last night… Pretty sure now the universe is just messing with me. At least…it appears…they didn’t hit the house… Got my work cut out for me for the near … Continue reading

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Gah!

If y’all ever wonder what the 300-pound, strong as an ox, rides a motorcycle with impunity in metroplex traffic, has knocked out a horse with a single punch (that’s another story), tough as nails biker dude finds as absolutely terrifying … Continue reading

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The finger of god…

Y’all might have seen our area in the news this last week…a series of major tornadoes (one an F4!) hit the area, one coming within a couple miles of our Suburban Blah House. We watched the news from the Old … Continue reading

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The Tool…

So yeah…using a tool…to do some tool kind of stuff…’cause tool kind of stuff is the sort of stuff you do when tinkering on Old Victorians… …and then of course…I needed the tool to fix the tool…which I couldn’t find … Continue reading

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Halloween was a success…

Heavy rain Friday kept us from decorating early, but the weather broke Saturday in time to get some of it done and have a nice Halloween night. The spider in his web made his appearance of course: The web is … Continue reading

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Yep, I do it…

Definition: Vicfragoretondere: The act of crashing your riding mower into things because while mowing the grass you are looking up at your Old Victorian and thinking, “Man that’s a gorgeous house.”

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Incongruity

It is not lost on me…that I update this status…this instant communication available world-wide at the touch of a button…from a room that looks pretty much as it did in 1900. Far from lost…that incongruity along with many others, pleases … Continue reading

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A couple new pieces…

Me and my sweetie picked up a couple new pieces for the Old Vic yesterday… Not sure what the point of a small, eight-legged table is…but we thought it was cool so it fits right in! It’s about 3 feet … Continue reading

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Time to say goodbye…

We put some things into motion yesterday. Big things. It’s time to say goodbye to something significant about the Old Vic. Seven years of hard work…mostly not on the Old Vic. Years of planning, going WAY back before we bought … Continue reading

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I love it when a plan … uh … well … I just love it…

My plan yesterday was a simple one…my woman was well over 100 miles away from me so it went something like this: 1) Coffee. 2) Ride motorcycle. 3) Woman. Like any good plan…I accomplished all these. Like any intelligent plan…it … Continue reading

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