Month: June 2008

I don’t know what most of this crap is. There are two broken garden forks in the background, a couple of T-posts, and what looks like some sort of anchor. The rest of it is a mystery.

When last we espied my mom’s chimney, it looked like this:

Now, it looks like this:

I keep telling her that she should turn them into a patio. It would be labor intensive to get all the mortar off them, but they’re an original part of the house and ought to be reused, plus, they’d make an awfully pretty patio.

They’ve stripped the interior to the studs and beyond.

There’s a big hole in the wall, in what used to be the bathroom. Everything inside has been stripped to the studs. The floorboards were pulled up, and the roof has been torn off the back half of the house.

I used to live in the house behind my mom’s. It’s another old Victorian and needed a lot of work. It’s been sold several times since then, and each time, it’s gone farther and farther downhill. The last sale was to someone who was supposedly gutting the place so she could renovate it. Only, the building permit on the front door is dated two years ago, and the owner seems to have abandoned it in mid-flip.

This child’s pail was sitting on the back porch.

More random crap from my mom’s porch. The top one is an old chandelier, and the bottom one is a big terra cotta tray full of stones and minerals and, for some reason, a little clay cow head. Mooo.