Angies HouZe...

Angie's house is coming down. Word has it that it'll happen tomorrow, Thursday.

Angie's been a staple in our neighborhood and lived here since the early 40ies when she hand her husband had the house built. Angie was more or less forced to move out last year due to her ailing health, but also to, dare we say it, greedy family members. They wanted the land, or rahter the money in the land.

It is the sole structure remaining from that time, but now its time has come, and it is really to no one's surprise (her house was literally a rats nest). Her lot is the largest one on the street, and it has a great view out over the lake. At the same time, the lot is not big enough (yeah!) to be sub-divided into smaller parcels. But it is a prime target for development and word has it that the house that will be erected there is about 5,500 sqf. THAT will be the largest in the neighborhood. Just hope that the design will be good, and not another monstrosity like the one up the street.

Wife had her eyes on a bunch of older wooden doors inside the house. Initially she just wanted to "take'em". We told her that was a really bad idea (=stealing) and that the doors were best left for the current owner/developer. But today she made contact with the developer and was able to buy the doors. The result?

1. Husband (=me) suddenly got his entire evening turned upside down in trying to remove doors, door hardware and door jambs in the darkened rooms + carring them down the street.
2. Doors galore are now littering our garage and there's really no space left - for anything.

Well, let's look at these doors in tomorrow's daylight and pick out one or two that we eventually will use, and let the other ones be sold to highest bidder on Craigslist!