The Incident at the Garden Bench
FICTION 173 A Mystery on the Garden Bench
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The Back Stoop, Three Times
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Then & Now Thirty Years, Four Looks, Same Five Steps One family photo accidentally c…
A Fresh Look for a Well-Loved Blog
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Blog History Same Old House... New Look Nearly two decades of stories, one hundred years …
On the Other Side of the Window
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House 173 Shorts A Familiar Room from the Wrong Side Charlie went inside. We stayed outs…
The Background
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One Photograph, One Story Things We Didn't Know We Were Photographing We thought we …
Cyd Has Been Thinking About It
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House 173 Shorts Cyd Isn't Brooding Twenty-five years is a long time to watch nothing…
The Previous Owner Was Me
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Ramblings 30 Years in an Old House After nearly thirty years at House 173, I’ve started f…
Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 3
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Windows The Window Goes Home Sash weights, pulleys, tracks, stops... and considerably les…
The Beagle vs. the Garden Fence
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House 173 Shorts Bruegger 1, String 0 Our first garden fence was one piece of string. Unf…
Introducing: One Photograph, One Story
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One photograph. One story. Looking Through Photographs The ordinary photographs of House 173, and t…
Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 2
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Windows Ninety-Nine Years in the Corners Restoring the window opening, sill and storm-window f…
The Monsters on the Porch
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House 173 Shorts This Was No Apple Tree Sometimes House 173 decorates itself. We were just fin…
While the Sheers Were in the Wash
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One Photograph, One Story As Though We Planned It Twenty-nine years, a Mosher chair,…
The Old Pail
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One Photograph, One Story Put a Plant In It A $10 vintage Old Pal minnow bucket travels three ho…
Why Did the Original Porch Windows Open Inward?
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Why is My House Like This? They Weren't Hung Backwards For years, I thought there were two thin…
Finally, Bare Wood
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One Photograph, One Story It Was a Commitment! Hours of scraping and sanding reveal the bare wood …
The Face of House 173
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Ramblings Twenty Years of the House 173 Masthead How fifteen years of mastheads, Photoshop, yellow …
The View From the Porch Floor
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One Photograph, One Story An Afternoon on the Front Porch Lying on the front porch floor with my be…
Look at That Countertop!
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One Photograph, One Story Where Some Things End Up Old coffee cans, hand tools and a few good stick…
Look at That Apple Tree
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One Picture The Funny Thing About Photographs Sometimes a photograph doesn't show you what you …
Why Does House 173 Have an Enclosed Front Porch?
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Why is My House Like This? Thirteen Windows and One Very Old Question Why did 1920s homes have encl…
99 Things I've Learned From a 99-Year-Old House
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Ramblings After Nearly Three Decades at House 173, You'd Think I'd Know Better by Now After…
Megapost: The 2026 Living Room Update at House 173
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Living Room Twenty-Two Years Later, the Living Room Gets a New Look What started as a simple plan t…
Back Porch Rehab '24: The Megapost
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Porches Eight Years Later, We Finally Finished What We Started Started : Sort of 2016 Finished : Fi…
The Things That Plant Themselves
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One Photograph, One Story Look Around the Edges A close look at one sunny corner of House 173, wher…
Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 1
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Windows 99 Years in the Same Window Restoring One of House 173's Original Double-Hung Windows I…
Painting the Porch Storage Chest: One Last Project for the House 173 Porch
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Porches One Last Project for the Front Porch A tired storage chest gets a rich red finish, a little…
Front Porch #5 Moving Back In
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Front Porch The Porch That Waited A Century of Welcomes, One More Chapter After weeks of sanding, …
The Old Macintosh Gets a Face
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Ramblings More than a Quarter Century A whimsical gift became the latest chapter in the story of on…
The Daily Inspection
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One Photograph, One Story Always Charlie First Charlie is coming to see what I'm doing. I kn…