Wannabefree...guess what I got in the mail today!?!?!?!?

[Farmfresh]

I am tired. I got up this morning and started cooking...5 hours later, I had a messed up kitchen and lunch and dinner yet to cook.

You need to join the Messy Kitchen Club over on my journal.

Our old house is part of a lot that used to belong to an old brick Victorian house that sat on a corner lot facing North. The story is that the Victorian burned to the ground, all but the bricks, around 1920. At that point the lot was divided into 4 tiny lots for houses that faced East. There was a big cellar on the property and that cellar - which is now my backyard - was filled up with all of the bricks from the house (and God knows what else). Then a retaining wall was built around it and some fill dirt brought in (about 2-3 foot of it). Thus the need for a raised bed in MY backyard for veggies. My BIL's house, which is next door, still has an old brick cistern about half filled in with junk, beside it. I have always wanted to do an excavation to check for treasures, but then it always seemed like a lot of work and I would probably find nothing but bricks.

 

[Wannabefree]

I am tired. I got up this morning and started cooking...5 hours later, I had a messed up kitchen and lunch and dinner yet to cook.

You need to join the Messy Kitchen Club over on my journal.

Our old house is part of a lot that used to belong to an old brick Victorian house that sat on a corner lot facing North. The story is that the Victorian burned to the ground, all but the bricks, around 1920. At that point the lot was divided into 4 tiny lots for houses that faced East. There was a big cellar on the property and that cellar - which is now my backyard - was filled up with all of the bricks from the house (and God knows what else). Then a retaining wall was built around it and some fill dirt brought in (about 2-3 foot of it). Thus the need for a raised bed in MY backyard for veggies. My BIL's house, which is next door, still has an old brick cistern about half filled in with junk, beside it. I have always wanted to do an excavation to check for treasures, but then it always seemed like a lot of work and I would probably find nothing but bricks.

Ya know...even those old bricks have a decent niche market value. Coming from that time period, and knowing some of the history/age about those particular bricks, makes them worth digging up IMO if you can find a buyer. You may want to look into it I would! Besides, who knows what else you'd find?! you could stand to make a pretty penny, for "one mans junk" that you can get your hands on for nothing

Sounds like a really cool place, but then I like that kind of weird historical quirkiness.

 

[abifae]

The house we'll be moving in to is 1902.

 

[Farmfresh]

weird historical quirkiness.

That we got in Spades!

 

[Wannabefree]

I got much of nothin done today. The neighbors came down at around 11, and the twin 3 year olds just left. Those two are a mess, and a bit of a handful We had fun, but it sure took my plans and tossed them out. I did somehow manage to get two loads of laundry done, and supper cooked in time. I sent the kids home with some homemade pizza. We sat on our bums and watched Ironman, and dragged out the boxing gloves and had a mad brawl in the livingroom, and we made pizza, and sauce, ate all of my remaining apples, and made a huge mess in my (formerly clean) kitchen. The boxing was incredibly funny Now I need to clean up the mess though. Fun over Time to be a grown up again. Next time I have a recipe for mud pies OUTSIDE

 

[FarmerJamie]

any pizza left?

 

[Wannabefree]

any pizza left?

One slice, but ya better hurry! DD has that smacky look in her eye

 

[BarredBuff]

any pizza left?

One slice, but ya better hurry! DD has that smacky look in her eye

Back off FJ and DD thats MINE!

 

[Wannabefree]

any pizza left?

One slice, but ya better hurry! DD has that smacky look in her eye

Back off FJ and DD thats MINE!

Actually, your both about two minutes too late. I just saw DD pass the last slice hanging out her face

 

[BarredBuff]

One slice, but ya better hurry! DD has that smacky look in her eye

Back off FJ and DD thats MINE!

Actually, your both about two minutes too late. I just saw DD pass the last slice hanging out her face