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The Living Without Series

This is a series of posts that I wrote back in 2006 on living with less stuff. Check them out: liv011Living #2liv031liv04

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The Chicken Doctor

April

The Architect

Clay

Isn’t She lovely?


I drive by this house every chance I get. I stopped and took photos one day because I thought I heard something like, “Take a picture it lasts longer!”

Dear Custom Homebuilder Person,

I have enclosed a picture of a classic colonial home. It’s simple really, it’s called a rectangle. See the odd number of windows? That’s pleasing to a person and so it symmetry. No need to thank me. If you have any questions about what helps a house continue to be longed for, sought after, awe inspiring or just lovely you can contact me here at Ranchoramaville.

XOXO,
April

Gangsta Thang

This is a chifferobe.

I bought one at a sale on Sunday. It was in the weirdest place. I found out the house, which was weird and huge, was once owned by a big Mafia dude that eventually became a senator with Harry S. Truman. Know who it was?

The house was a country/river hang out. It has underground tunnels leading to other buildings on the property. It was decked out in the most amazing stuff.

I can’t find anything exactly like the dresser on the web. It actually has two mirrored wardrobes on each side and a mirrored hat box in the middle with the stack of drawers. It’s very cool. On the back of one of the dove tailed drawers is a stamp Jan 1924.

The best thing? It smells musty. I ran out and bought some Beatrix Potter fleur drawer liners that smell like an old powdery grandma. So now I’ve got an old musty Mafia man’s dresser being accosted by an old powdery lady. Seems appropriate.

She was happy to go.


I told him we would have better luck getting her to school in a vehicle, but he wanted to try flying one more time. He’s strangely coordinated for a tall skinny man. Just look at the grace, the poise.