MY FIRST POST IN MONTHS

AND AN EXPLANANTION AS TO WHY

 

 

 

 

 

 

   This is the Standish House as of the day after I closed. I just HAD to remove the 1960s topiary; it didn't go.
   Actually, it did. Once Me and my Stihl were through.
   If you look closely, you can see the storm windows are open. This was taken in Late October. They are tightly shut now.
   This is why.

   I arrived with no water, heat, hot water, working kitchen, shower, or working toilet. It took me until just after Thanksgiving to resolve all of those issues, but I'm very comfy now, as are the dogs.

                                                    
                                                                        Puppies Happy in Front of the Fire

   I still have no internet to speak of, unless the stars are right. Tonight they are, but all weekend they were not. Alas, I will break down and get a landline (there's no phone, either, and no TeeVee) and pipe in DSL or Broadband or whatever ridiculously expensive type of soon-to-be-obsolete technology all of you are using at this time.
   So my best wishes to all of you until I get that hard wire, probably next week. All I can say is that it's nice to have the stars right for once. I'll have a nice post on that Rumford Fireplace of mine next time.
   Right now I'm going to post, because the internet around here is likely to crap out in the middle of wh