Battery Park Flood

Our house survived the flood just fine, a little bit of water in the basement, and a small leak in the roof.. nothing major. Many parts of the neighborhood did not do as well.

I have many photos up at flickr taken over the last several days.

Backyard Update

Battery Park gets some ink

If you read the Richmond Times Dispatch, do check out the article that ran in yesterday's Real Estate section, Battery Park Rediscovered.

...ACORN's showcase of Battery Park, dubbed a Sell-A-Bration, will include presentations by renovation loan specialists, information on tax breaks for buying and renovating in the city plus a tour of homes.

Unfortunately, the online version cheats you out of some really nice pictures of a few of the vacant properties that will be featured in the tour.

Starting to look like a home

We're now most of the way unpacked and set up. The first floor is starting to look pretty decent. We still need to put down the rugs and hang some more things on the wall. I made curtains for the very first time. That was pretty fun actually.

Farm Report

One of our new favorite passtimes is trying to figure out what the guy that lives accross the alley is up to.


The most recent concensus was that maybe he's a contractor who does a bit of salvage business on the side. This weekend's events have thrown a new wrinkle into the mystery. He and his pals spent all day Saturday constructing a large crate to attach to the trailor that he keeps in his yard (along with a couple of claw foot tubs, a truck full of random junk, and a tent which is housing some number of unseen treasures). Tonight we heard the unmistakable sound of sheep and lambs bleating. No shit. Sheep and lambs being loaded up into a trailor in a northside Richmond backyard. It's not time for the state fair yet, is it?

Rarely Seen Richmond

VCU has a wonderful archive of vintage postcards featuring pictures of early 20th century Richmond. You can easily waste a couple of hours of useful time browsing the archives.

Moving sucks

As everyone knows, moving is a massive pain in the ass. We've been pretty caught up in getting the seemingly unending mountain of stuff out of our old place and into the new place. We've been determined to get rid of loads of useless crap but somehow there's still this amazingly large pile of stuff that we still must move. When you're moving, the old place with all of the stuff sort of becomes this zombie that will not die. Anyway, in a few days we'll be all done and can turn all of our attention to the many things we need to do at the new place.

Housewarming present

A good friend of ours brought us an awesome housewarming present... some great chairs with matching ice bucket, margarita mixer, glasses, and porch lights for our back porch.

Back fence finished!

The back gate is finished! Pardon the extra panel in the picture, we haven't moved it yet.