Tag: urban gardening

Chronicling my adventures restoring and updating a quirky old Philadelphia rowhouse

Hooray for Irish Labor!

Yep, I finally got someone to come work for me again! Remember how I abandoned cutting down the bookcases? This cut was me and my dad working together with a cutting fence. He freehanded all his cuts!   Remember the too deep before? Now, they’re much more gracefully proportioned! And even more importantly, that hump in…
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More Civility in the Bathroom, It’s Complicated Out Back

Last week I got started lining up missing parts for all kinds of things. Like my bedroom door. I got the other bedroom done to rent it but mine? Pfft. A lot of the work is on hold for the Irishman. (The door is on hold until the goods arrive.) But the bathroom stuff, at…
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