Shoestring Theory

Click pic to embiggen. This is the view looking north from the back of the house, ground level. I’ve been trying to get some better photos of the landscape around the house. I didn’t think the one I put up the other day did the view justice. Click pic to embiggen. This is the view […]

My new office was hiding a multitude of surprises, including two windows, a door and hardwood floors that had all been covered up. I understand the door, someone moved the front door to a different side of the house at some time. But covering up two additional windows? Really, why? The hardwoods are an unknown […]

A few minutes after I got out to the place to work this evening, I watched a bald eagle fly over the river behind the house. Little things like that make the hard work seem that much easier to handle.

The ladytheorist and I finally found a house we liked and that was in our price range. Yah! It’s a 108-year-old rather run-down farmhouse a couple of miles outside of Eudora. The house needs a bunch of work, but the property rocks. It sits on a couple of acres of land and looks north over […]