September 11, 2007
Closeup, originally uploaded by dunrie.
Our big news is that we had our bathroom gutted this summer. On August 6, they came in and knocked our old bathroom out, tossing it in pieces out the little window, down a chute, and into a skip in the driveway. It came apart quickly. It has come back [...]
July 1, 2007
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Black-eyed Susans invading my lawn, originally uploaded by dunrie.
We’ve got black-eyed Susans flowering in our back lawn, and they’ve crossed the fence and are working their way towards our [...]
May 13, 2007
So, I apparently am a sucker for modular floorcovering. I didn’t know this until I received the FLOR catalog in the mail. Flor offers lots of color, pattern, and texture options. I like the quilt-esque ones, but they were vetoed by the house’s other occupant. The compromise choice was a mixture of two color variants [...]
February 12, 2007
I have spent a fair bit of time in south Florida, my family purchased a condo there in the late 70s. When I was a kid, we’d visit go to Parrot Jungle, Monkey Jungle, the snake place (Serpentarium?), Lion Country Safari, all the crazy kid places. We also spent a fair bit of time in [...]
September 11, 2006
For interested and distant friends and family, here is the write-up on our house for the Old West Side Homes Tour. This story appeared in the September Old West Side News.
The write-up gets my current profession wrong even after I corrected them, but otherwise it is a nice summary. Probably not a good idea to [...]
August 24, 2006
The Old West Side homes tour has been stirring up a few things at our house. For one, we’ve had good motivation to complete a bunch of “to dos” that have been neglected. This includes recovering the chair that I’ve been hiding underneath a hideous plaid blanket for the past few years. And fixing the [...]
July 11, 2006
So, we got a phone call several weeks ago, asking whether we’d consider showing our home on the Ann Arbor Old West Side (OWS) Annual Homes Tour. We agreed.
After a brief rush mixing panic and euphoria, I now have about 12,000 little projects I want to do before the tour (Sunday, September 17). Repaint study, [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48103