http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1 Day-by-day account of how my house is built. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:07:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just before sunset tonight, a wall of black clouds rolled in over our town. Then the setting sun turned the underside of the clouds the most vivid red I've ever seen in the sky. It looked like Hell itself was approaching. This photo from my upstairs balcony hardly does it ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2008/02/19/red-sky-at-night/ During the Christmas Homes Tour (which went very well ... thank you to all who attended) I tried to display construction photos of my house on my computer. I used the slide show feature that is part of Windows Vista -- huge mistake. The slide show locked up the computer ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/12/11/microsoft-is-trying-to-kill-me/ Here are some better close-up photos of Christmas decorations at my house. Onancock Christmas Homes Tour today, 2-6. Christmas wreath on my front door. Very nice wreath sold by the OBCA this year. Second wreath on the wall of the porch. Partridge in a pear tree ornament holder. The famous gumdrop tree, fruitcake from ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/12/08/christmas-decorations-close-up/ Here are some interior photos of my home ... the first I've posted although I've lived here for a year. Christmas decorations are up. Enjoy. Gumdrop tree! Moravian Star ontop of one of my wardrobes. View onto the balcony, with the outdoor Christmas tree visible. http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/12/07/interior-decorated/ Decorating the house for Christmas is well underway and it all should easily be ready for the Onancock Christmas Homes Tour on December 8. When finished, I'll post photos from around the entire house. Here's one decoration that I like a lot. It's a Moravian Star with a light inside. I ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/11/29/moravian-star-lamp/ My little home is on the Onancock Christmas Home Tour this year. On Saturday, December 8, several homes in town will be decorated and open for visitors. Most of the homes are old (historic) and big, while mine is new and small. Variety is a good thing! The tour is ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/11/17/my-house-will-be-on-the-onancock-christmas-homes-tour/ Kudos to Lowes for selling and promoting "Katrina Cottage" house plans. Small house plans aren't easy to find, and having a quality plan would certainly make the building process easier. Hopefully more people will build compact homes after they see these plans prominently featured in Lowes ads. The blueprints are priced ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/07/29/katrina-cottage-plans/ A few years ago I ate lunch outside on the second-floor porch of a restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland. They had several flags mounted just below this upper porch, and looking out over the flags as they flapped in the breeze was great. I decided then that I'd have flags on ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/07/06/flags/ Our town's volunteer fire department used to put on a big (really) fireworks display, but that tradition ended two years ago. People really miss it, but we have other nice small-town ways to celebrate ... and something totally unexpected last night. On Tuesday evening, the ice cream social (free ice cream!) ... http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/07/05/unexpected-fireworks/ I put up my flag just in time. Our town's "ice cream social" (featuring a concert by the community band) is tonight on the town green. I hope you enjoy the celebrations wherever you are. http://easternshorevisitor.com/blog1/2007/07/03/happy-independence-day/