An electrician, a very friendly Southern gentleman with a twang as thick as Stone Mountain, is poking around the wiring on our deck right now, trying to ascertain why a couple outlets there don’t work and why the fan runs, at top speed, about as fast as I do. Down in our basement, a basement… Read More The Joy$ of Owning a Home
We have been house-hunting for what seems like years now. Looking for that Next Stop on our life’s tour. Dreaming of a somewhat smaller, quite a bit cooler place, in a hip town a little farther from the cul de sac and suburban sprawl that we’ve been mired in — happily, I will say, but… Read More Our House
A few weeks ago, for the first time in my 22 years living in Georgia — I have been here now longer, by a good bit, than I’ve been anywhere, and have stayed in this house on this cul de sac in Alpharetta longer than in any single place, including the big red house in… Read More On Jekyll
https://media.giphy.com/media/3oKIPsU8OC7JhkvY8U/giphy.mp4 We’re stuck. For now. We’ve been looking for a new place to live, or at least a new place to check out to live, for some time now. But it’s been a bit of a slog recently. Not only finding a place. But finding a place to check out. Most of Florida is too… Read More The Next Stop Tour: ???
We are off to our annual family vacation shortly. I can’t tell you when, the internet police tell me, or someone will come and loot the house. Eat the leftover brownies. Get crumbs all over the seat cushions while snarfing down free Netflix. We’re off then, shortly, for a week to beautiful (we hear), relaxing… Read More Planning and unplanning
For some reason, Hilton Head Island, just off the southern tip of South Carolina and just north of Savannah, Georgia, is a vacation nirvana among the people of Cincinnati. You see Salty Dog t-shirts all over the place in the Queen City. You see Ohio license plates all over HHI. It’s weird, considering the two… Read More The Next Stop Tour: Hilton Head Island, SC
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