I have never seen this much pedestrian traffic in this neighborhood before. All day today and yesterday there have been groups of people going to and from the Extreme Makeover project. The spectator entrance is on Danbury, just one house over, so they're all going right past us. There's been a lot of motor traffic too, including periodic tour ( Read more... )

Jim and I walked around the block today to see the house getting the extreme makeover. They have a pedestrian area set up, and our back neighbor had about 50 people sitting on his lawn (and lawns here are small...) I'll bet he'd have a hard time ordering a pizza. We also saw a tour bus going in; apparently they're busing people in from the old ( Read more... )

One of the houses in our neighborhood is getting an Extreme Makeover this week. All the cops were out, directing traffic around the street where the house is. Our neighbors told us they walked down and looked earlier in the day, before they blocked the street off, and it's the house across the street from the house directly behind ours - maybe a ( Read more... )

Thursday, I was watching PBS and ran into a rerun of Bob Ross. I watched him paint some happy little trees. I didn't realize they still aired them ( Read more... )