sunday morning shadows

It's almost time for dinner

It's been almost 11 months since we've cooked a real enjoyable meal. We are looking forward to putting our range to good use....Here's our Lasagna Bolognese with homemade macaroni

HALLELUIAH

We've been waiting since MARCH for the city of Richmond to set our gas meter. It's a really, really, long, boring story, so I won't bore you with details. The important thing is that by some miracle, an angel set the meter yesterday which means we have hot water and can move in!

We think William Johnson would be proud

The library on Franklin Street near the YMCA has what are kind of like yellow pages of the past. There are shelves of these books and the older ones are on microfilm. Each book has a couple of years worth of information in it. You look up your address and then you are able to see who lived at the property and what they did as a profession. The first date I was able to find our property was 1874. William Johnson, a blacksmith who later became an ironworker lived at the property until 1902. Interesting to us becuase the iron work on our porch is quite unique. We haven't been able to find another porch that looks similar. So with everything we're doing to our house, we often think of William Johnson and hope he'd like what we're doing.

Come watch our house renovation.....