During some clearing of the basement I spied a crumpled section of newspaper jammed into the space between a beam and the concrete floor of what was the original porch, but what is now the foyer. Eventually I managed to pull it out and it turned out to be the classifieds section of the Los …
Part of our renovation is involving a whole bunch of concrete getting poured into a hole dug out deep from under the center our house onto which will be secured additional posts that will brace up under the first floor beams providing mooooooore than enough additional structural support to hold up the new bathtub we’re …
Finally! After a few weeks of upstairs demo work with nothing much revealed/discovered for it but a lot of original (read that: archaic) knob-and-tube electrical wiring, a really old rat trap (with a really old rat skull) and some equally aged walnut shells, this morning I went into the destruction zone for a peek around …
Inspecting the latest stage in the demolition work continuing up on the second floor, I made something of a gruesome discovery this morning while getting a closer look at the space between the kitchen and the dining room that had been revealed beneath the floorboards that had been ripped up from inside the closet that …
The latest strangeness to surface in the repository of odds and ends that is our Silver Lake backyard was this old specifically shaped piece of metal made the more curious by what seems to be the last of four curled up nails accompanying it. Susan first thought it might have been a corner piece to …
It is one of the two handmade Leon cigars my wife got me for Christmas. It is an ice cold bottle of Pabst from the landmark Galco’s in Highland Park, the wonderful beverage repository I’ve been to only a woeful three times in my life; twice in the past week. It is a break taken …
It’s been awhile since our infamously fascinating backyard has given up another tidbit of its mystery/history, but today’s find marks one of the more intriguing in that I’m fairly certain during a long overdue raking session this morning I unearthed the above-pictured hunk of lead whose size and shape seems indicative of a bullet and …