Yes, two weeks since the last post. Instead of working last Saturday, we headed it NYC to celebrate a friend's birthday at The Dead Rabbit, a destination bar on everyone's top ten list. Specialties are old drinks from the late 19th and early 20th century. Ward Eight or a Maiden's Blush anyone?
Sunday we did go the house just to get more accurate measurements since we are now planning to move the kitchen to the front parlor, use the former powder room as a butler's pantry, move the powder room space back into what was the kitchen and make a den out of the rear bump-out addition with the stone fireplace. Got it? Also this past week five large and mostly ailing trees were taken down.
Yesterday was spent taking care something that I guess snuck onto the bucket list--removing the popcorn from the popcorn ceilings in the addition. A slow but reasonably easy process using a spray bottle to moisten the surface and a scraper to remove the popcorn.
And then there is the mystery. I found the following on a website about Killingworth:
The Birds Of Killingworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote The Birds Of Killingworth http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=2047 while staying in Killingworth Connecticut many years ago. It is said that he stayed in the house across the street from the town trash compactor (the dump). I thought it would be fun to document the many birds living in Killingworth. I will be adding to this collection as time goes on. Feel free to send me any photos you may have and if you'd like I could add your name below any photo sent.
These two fotos are of one of the fireplaces:
So someone wrote "Birds of Killingworth" on the stone lintel. We are planning to contact the historical society to see if can get any additional info. Our contractor should be back from vacation this week and the structural repairs will begin in earnest.
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