March 2012

Fencing with bureaucrats

One of the challenges we have found in our otherwise quiet life in the City of Danville has been to navigate the complicated footwork of the rules of the Historic District and the City itself.  People who simply live and work and mind their own business have no worries, but as soon as you start to […]

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Deconstructing the Porch

One of the most beautiful architectural features on our home used to be the front porch.  Over the years it had degraded, rotted, and rusted out, so that only a ghost of its former self remained.  We didn’t realize what a sad remnant the front porch had become until one of the sisters who grew

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