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guess what used to be here?

a slanty brick sidewalk that was almost deadly in the winter. apparently, whomever installed it didn’t realize they were locating it 1/2 over the backfill to the sewer line. so, that soil compacted, and the entire thing sloped to a dangerous degree. it’s probably been like that since it was installed, in 1966 (carrie found a quarter under the sidewalk!).

guess how it went away?

a whole lot of this:

one more weekend and it should all be gone. we found a home for the used brick via craigslist.org — one of our neighbors will be making a patio out of it.

the bleeding hearts

the bleeding hearts are overrunning this bed in the front – they’re growing like crazy!

happy easter!

courtesy of cute overload 🙂

chasing the clouds away

the sun is out and it’s 70 degrees. know what this means? i’m already way behind on all my spring projects for the house.

i’d post more flower pictures, but you can see them below.

Tulips are up

yes, the tulips are starting to come up in the yard!

more hopper.

just more silly hopper.

picture of hopper, yawning

chicago!

i finally uploaded our pictures from our trip to chicago in 2004. (long story, they were in iPhoto on carrie’s computer). anyway, here’s the whole collection:

Chicago 2004 it includes pictures of Oak Park, IL, the Unity Temple, and from the Skydeck of the Sears Tower. (my, how touristy of us!)

here’s a sampling of images from oak park:

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just a quip…. this morning i weighed less than i have since i was in 9th grade.

school update: Winter '07 is ovah!

it’s been a long, hard fight. but i’m finally through my first semester of school in more than a decade. it was pretty rough, i didn’t realize how much reading would be involved. but i’m done. and i managed to do pretty well…

okay, i won’t make you click through. 3.53 gpa. my most successful semester… ever!

Wright in Buffalo

there’s been a lot of buzz recently, and for good reason, about frank lloyd wright’s work in buffalo. while the number of structures pales compared to oak park or chicago, you can see exactly how wright’s brilliance evolved when he had the opportunity of working for a patron who was both highly respected by wright, and highly supportive of him — both creatively and economically.

prariemod mentioned this recently and has been keeping an eye on the ongoing re-creation/restoration of the darwin martin house.