A tailless black neighborhood cat has been hiding under my house for most of the winter. Hey. It's cold. I get it ( Read more... )

I went out and cleared some walkways (until I realized that clearing the snow just exposed the ice... not so handy). And took pictures!

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Photos forthcoming. The sunrise this morning was too beautiful to photograph. With 60-70K people without power in the area, I'm thrilled Fairmount (where the streetlights were flickering much of the night) still has heat and internet and all that jazz.

My across-the-street neighbor, Mr. DV, is planning a run for the district's expected vacant council seat. The neighborhood is demonstrating its diversity of opinion and intelligence in reaction to the news.

I would be in favor of that plan. Good reminder to switch the my voter registration from district 6 to 7.

This whole "holiday season" thing snuck up on me this year. I'd like to get into the solsticey spirit at the house. For me that's all about having a tree-thing.
Poll Apparently there's also some implicit requirement on my block that people put up exterior lights and stuff. My parents gave me a stash of light-up candy canes, which I think is all I'm ( Read more... )

Best political feeling ever: in my 90 year old house in my 150 year old neighborhood watching my city, this state and this country elect Obama ( Read more... )

Ah, the men of Fairmount ( Read more... )

This morning my smoke detectors LOST THEIR COLLECTIVE SHIT. 15 solid minutes of FIVE SMOKE ALARMS GOING OFF FOR NO REASON. On the upside, I now have a working conceptual model of ionic radiation smoke detectors and can even correct my dad who thinks most smoke detectors still have optical sensors ( Read more... )

Apparently my house has become THE place for the neighborhood cats to hang out. Word has spread.

There were two in my yard when I got home tonight. Neither of them was No-Tail.

At the furniture store this afternoon, Tim the sofa guy's cheery response to Willie's address was "Oh, you're a colonist!"

Me: perplexed lookMe: Oh, you mean that I'm gentrifying North Church Hill? [While I didn't say this, I like to think that Richmond's neighborhoods are in a different cycle (NCH 50-100 years ago was a predominantly white ( Read more... )