tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61625372301010698172024-03-13T04:11:09.944-07:00The Einsel HouseKimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-81283750155082485862019-06-23T07:36:00.001-07:002021-01-25T03:12:59.507-08:00Angry is Just Sad's Bodyguard<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I spent this morning
hanging laundry on the line to dry and then beginning some overdue
repairs on the wooden kitchen storm door. The chance to add a little
of myself to this house's long history has always brought me
pleasure. It's nice to look down as I type and see window glazing
under my fingernails. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The memories recorded in
the entries on this blog are probably the best tool I have to convey
what this home means to me and my family; the relationships and
memories that I treasure about this place, and the hopes I have for a
future here. I have started this post multiple times in the past 15
months, but have never yet found words to convey what I want to say.
Even if I do share the words I write today they will inevitably fall
short.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>We found out in late March
of 2018 that the Einsel House is in the footprint of the proposed
Seneca Wind Project, an industrial wind project covering 25,000 acres
that intends to build up to nineteen 600 (+/-) foot industrial wind
turbines within two miles of our home. If that happens we will try
to sell the Einsel House and move. It hurts to be in this position.
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<span style="font-size: medium;">We bought this property
ten years ago not only because I love this house but because we love
the whole package – the tree lined creek, the open fields, the
sunsets and the wildlife, the landmarks on the Google Earth map of
today <a href="http://einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/2011/06/flack-years-1893-1900.html" target="_blank">unchanged from the landmarks of the county atlas of over 120 years past</a>. The history in this house drew me from the start, but
there are plenty of old houses in town that we never even considered
buying. The Einsel House was the perfect house in the perfect
setting; it was a wonderfully intact historic home in a rural and
agricultural setting. It was exactly what I wanted. (And Charles,
bless him, was willing to come along for the ride.) There's no pizza
delivery to our house, cell phone service can be spotty and high
speed internet options limited, certain times of the year we expect
to be stuck behind slow-moving farm machinery, and some days we can
smell the new livestock barn built south of our home. We expected
all of those inconveniences when we moved here. But we never
expected our home could be in the middle of an industrial energy
complex that would change the light, the sound, and the view. In
short, industrial wind would take away many of the reasons we chose
to live here in the first place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Home is supposed to be
your sanctuary. It's hard to explain what it does to you when the
place that has been your respite is suddenly the constant source and
reminder of your stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Coming home from work and
immediately noticing that the kids turned off the TV when they were
done playing video games but once again forgot to turn off the old
Xbox 360. The sound of the disk still spinning has always annoyed
me. Charles measured that sound last summer at 37 decibels. The
company planning the Seneca Wind Project estimates wind turbine noise
at our house will be 41-44 decibels. And I won't be able to turn it
off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Appreciating a beautiful
sunset and turning to Charles to say, “Look at that beautiful sun -
” but stopping mid-sentence with the realization that this is the
exact time of day we will have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQksc1-5Zoc" target="_blank">shadow flicker</a> once the turbines are
built. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Setting outside in the
early evening to enjoy watching the <a href="http://einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/search/label/bats" target="_blank">Einsel bats</a> fly out into the
night. But this summer I always have paper and pen in hand,
recording not only the number of bats but also the temperature, cloud
cover, and visibility of the moon. Knowing that the data I collect
will become part of the baseline for a mortality study on bats if the
Seneca Wind Project is built. (Prior to learning my home could be
in a wind project I had no idea that simply flying too close to a
wind turbine is fatal for bats. The change in air pressure near
moving turbine blades causes the fragile blood vessels in bat lungs
to explode, thus the bat drowns in its own blood.) And thus
wondering if I sit outside in future evenings, how many fewer bats
will I count?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Avoiding a <a href="http://einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/2012/06/sunday-stroll.html" target="_blank">familiar route</a>
so you don't have to see the painfully slow process of removing a
scenic tree line. Wondering every time you do pass how much more
destruction will follow as narrow rural roads are widened to
accommodate massive industrial machinery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Sitting immediately beside
Ohio's most pro-wind State Senator, Matt Dolan, during a meeting in
Tiffin last fall and being shocked when he openly acknowledged that
the wind industry would be a “burden” on this community. Then
feeling much less shocked when he wondered
aloud if an adjustment to PILOT payments and resultant increase in
local tax revenue would make Seneca County more accepting of this
“burden”. (The Dolan family are majority owners of the Cleveland
Indians, and I have not watched or listened to a game yet this season
that I haven't been reminded of Senator Dolan's willingness to
sacrifice my community.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Coming home late one
night, getting out of the car and looking up at a stunning, starry
night sky. Then remembering that those intensely dark night skies
may soon be dotted with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDztGwEqiwQ" target="_blank">hundreds of blinking red lights</a> in all
directions.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgroMWv4K0w78qinOQvRpeJV94RWwNyxHv-ZjtqDAptga22jgfyLWaTyl6ao5kJaDzFmMlkirgshSzJit5pNwrHYakTWFCNZyg0cKi8L3qQKZM2kn43y7vOb__eqSXgmatm5EjFVIK6IY/s1600/Blueprints.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgroMWv4K0w78qinOQvRpeJV94RWwNyxHv-ZjtqDAptga22jgfyLWaTyl6ao5kJaDzFmMlkirgshSzJit5pNwrHYakTWFCNZyg0cKi8L3qQKZM2kn43y7vOb__eqSXgmatm5EjFVIK6IY/s200/Blueprints.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Getting a call from the
architect you contacted a year ago, meeting with him and getting his
plans for the addition we have anticipated ever since buying this
home a decade ago. But feeling pain whenever you glance at his
rolled up plans, because you know it makes no sense to invest the
money you have been working so hard to save on a house you might soon
choose to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>My dad has asked me,
“Where would you go?” and sadly, it's a good question. Seneca
Wind is the project our current house is in, but there are now
multiple other additional wind projects in various stages of
development surrounding this area. Republic Wind to the north and
Emerson Creek Wind to the east are already progressing through the
Ohio Power Siting Board process. And it appears that the communities
where I was raised and married are about to find out they are the
proposed site of another project called Honey Creek Wind. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Over a year into this
fight I am as angry as ever at the wind industry's unwillingness to
recognize any sanctity in setting. As time passes though I have
grown increasingly saddened by the realization that this industry not
only undermines and damages long-standing expectations of place that
residents have typically (and understandably) taken for granted, it
also undermines and damages individuals, relationships, and the
fundamental social fabric of communities. It does this intentionally
and unapologetically. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Those who speak up in
opposition to wind energy are lambasted as backwards, unintelligent,
'flat-earthers' who are against clean energy and have no concern for
the environment. They are accused of being selfish and of wanting to
control their neighbor's property. They are labeled as puppets of
dirty energy, and any organized anti-wind effort is assumed to be
funded by coal or oil. I cannot hope to address each of
these accusations here, but I assure you that none apply to the
anti-wind movement as I have seen and participated in it here in
Seneca County.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But there is another group
that I suspect feels equally attacked when the wind industry enters a
community – those who own land leased to a wind company. These are
accused of being gullible, greedy and money-hungry; willing to sell
out their neighbors for their own financial gain. Here I cannot
claim personal experience, nor will I try. Neither will I paint with
a broad brush, nor imply that all leaseholders acquired that title
through the same process or prompted by the same motives. What I
will do is state that I have seen just as much pain and torment among
some leaseholders as I have among the most fervent of anti-wind
non-leaseholders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Consider the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">-Leaseholders who had
concerns but signed the lease because they were asked to so by other
family members.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Part of a public comment on the Seneca Wind Project filed with the OPSB</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>-Leaseholders who did not
sign any lease, but purchased or inherited land with a lease already in place. Some in this group did not even realize until much later that the land they had purchased/inherited was subject to a wind agreement. Among those who were aware, many assumed that because the leases were years old the wind company had abandoned the project and the lease would simply expire and be forgotten. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Situations like these were in the back of my mind some months ago as I watched the documentary
<u><a href="https://www.wind-watch.org/video-windfall.php" target="_blank">Windfall</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> a second time.
When I first watched </span>Windfall<span style="text-decoration: none;">
in the spring of 2018 I identified with the residents opposed to
turbines being built in their community. But when I watched the
documentary again this spring it was several statements made by
pro-wind residents that stood out to me. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium; text-decoration: none;">“<span><i>I
never thought it would be so contentious an issue. It's really
divided our community and I didn't see it coming. I guess I should
have....It's been difficult for my family. My wife has taken the
divisiveness and the rancor and the anger...she's taken that to
heart. It's hurt. And I think we'll both be glad when it's over.”
- Frank Bachler, Town Supervisor</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“<span><i>It
isn't all gravy for the landowner. But it seemed like a small price
to pay for what we thought was the public good. And then time goes
by and all of a sudden we are the bad people. </i></span></span><span><i><u>We
are the bad people! Oh my word!</u></i><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
The neighbors are having meetings at their house; what to do about
the Hamiltons....they are the bad people. We've got to stop 'em
somehow.” - John Hamilton, Leaseholder</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;">These
words were still rattling around in my head, bouncing around with my
own experiences from the past year, as the end credits began to
scroll on the screen in front of me. And I saw that </span>Windfall<span style="text-decoration: none;">
was released in 2010. Almost a decade ago. That really caught my
attention. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">One of the many nights that we've been up too late talking about this issue Charles made the
following statement, “Whoever controls the narrative wins.” He
is absolutely right, and I'm convinced the wind industry knows
this as well. This industry knows what it does to the social fabric
of a community; it knows the division it sows within families, within
churches and community organizations. And yet I believe when<span style="text-decoration: none;">
wind companies approach potential leaseholders they emphasize how beneficial and welcome these projects are. The division that communities suffer in the wake of industrial wind is minimized (or completely omitted). Because when courting potential
leaseholders it is the wind company that controls the narrative.</span></span></div>
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“<span><i>In the
beginning I just thought our community will embrace this. I was very
naive.” - Frank Bachler</i> </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
have talked to numerous leaseholders here in Seneca County and all of
them have expressed surprise at how quickly this issue divided the
community following the public announcement of these projects. None expected this issue to be so
divisive. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>This
community division may have taken my neighbors by surprise, but I'm
convinced it was no surprise to the wind companies targeting this
county. Windfall was released in 2010, yet in so many ways it is the
same story unfolding nearly a decade later here. A decade later and
the industry continues to follow the same community-wrenching script.
The more I reflect on this the angrier it makes me. Any individual
who is offered a wind lease has the right to know the consequences of
signing the dotted line. They have a right to as much information as
possible – and that should include knowledge of how their neighbors
feel about the project. Yet not only does the wind industry not
provide this information, it has perpetuated a system that
intentionally obscures this information. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I
don't believe the companies behind Seneca Wind, Republic Wind,
Emerson Creek Wind, Honey Creek Wind, or any other project lurking
behind the scenes really care about the people of Seneca
County. Instead, I believe the wind industry sees people as obstacles
to be overcome. Those who do not own enough land to matter to these
companies are left in the dark until the 11<sup>th</sup>
hour. Those who do own enough land are wooed with a carefully selected narrative
long before the 11<sup>th</sup>
hour. Thus the division is set before that critical time. As a result, land owners are encouraged to sign a lease believing it will benefit their community only to later and suddenly realize that many in their community do not see wind energy as beneficial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Here
in Seneca County we are now fifteen months past that 11<sup>th</sup>
hour. Our rural landscape remains intact for now, but the social fabric of
this community has already suffered too many tears. Perhaps the cruelest
torment inflicted by the wind industry is suffered by those who
unexpectedly feel villainized by their neighbors and friends. This
is sadder still because if you ask those neighbors and friends to
identify the villain in this saga I guarantee you will hear in reply
the name of a wind company and not the name of a leaseholder.
Anti-wind does not mean anti-neighbor. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I
wrote somewhere back at the beginning of this post that even if
choose to make this post public I would inevitably fall short of
everything I wanted to say. I was right.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>(As a postscript - Thank you for the many kind responses to this post. Although for this post I have chosen not to
publicly share comments please know that your words are appreciated.)</i><o:p></o:p></p></span></div>
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Yesterday morning provided perhaps the most beautiful scenery yet this winter. And thanks to a new job where that scenery translated into a two hour delay, I had time to put on some boots and enjoy a quiet morning walk through the snow. </div>
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I also had help from my uncle J, who moved an outlet and handled the electrical end of installing the new hood range. As the earlier pictures show, the microwave used to set on a low shelf just above the stove. The shelf was so low that it made using the stovetop awkward and dark. It also seemed to be perpetually covered in grease and every other kind of cooking gunk. The new hood is a basic model, but I love having the extra light and height when cooking. </div>
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Like everything else around here, there are still a few details I'd like to tweak (like painting the dark toe-kick areas and adding little arches in front of the toe-kick to give more of a furniture look to the lower cabinets) but for now I'm calling the kitchen good. </div>
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<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-50284425501543418542013-10-24T09:10:00.000-07:002013-10-24T09:10:13.120-07:00If I Made a Million Dollars<div style="text-align: center;">
by Cecilia (age 8 and apparently the future patron saint of old house lovers)</div>
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<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-16663748725823967652013-09-30T06:42:00.000-07:002013-09-30T06:42:18.191-07:00The Current Project<div style="text-align: center;">
The biggest project undertaken here during my blog absence (other than having a baby) has been the kitchen. Here's what the kitchen looked like when we bought the house almost 4 years ago:</div>
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By 2011 we had progessed to this:</div>
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That's pretty much how the kitchen stayed until this year. In January we replaced the sink, faucet and counters. We also added a dishwasher (a much appreciated Christmas gift from Charles' parents). In June I began painting and replacing hardware on the cabinets. Starting with the lower cabinets and going section-by-section, I've made it to this:</div>
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Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-58215156041519307742013-09-20T10:52:00.000-07:002013-09-20T10:52:29.445-07:00Fourteen months later...After a fourteen month absence I'm quite surprised by the number of people who still ask when I'm going to have another post here. I guess I finally have an answer for them. <br />
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Anyway - fourteen months. A lot can happen in fourteen months. Let me see if I can recap some of the highlights:<br />
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Purchased and refinished one of the surviving window surrounds from the 1884 Seneca County Courthouse.<br />
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Installed reconstructed original window in the springhouse. (The other one is ready to install, but for now the opening is covered in plastic.)<br />
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Refinished one of the original house doors that had been in the shed and hung it on the second door to the former computer room so we could use it as a nursery.<br />
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Planted asparagus, rhubarb and red raspberries. (The raspberries are everbearing and are in their second harvest right now - yum!)<br />
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Canned 16 pints of raspberry jam and 13 quarts of homemade spaghetti sauce. Also froze 12 quarts of homemade freezer salsa, and 16 quarts of diced tomatoes.<br />
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Bought an antique corner cupboard for the dining room at an estate auction. It's the first piece of furniture we own that's roughly the same age as the house.<br />
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And last but certainly not least - we added Jonathan Paul to the family! </div>
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(Did you catch the hint I snuck in there above?) The little guy is almost five months old already and is quite the peanut. After trying early February and late July, I've decided that spring is the best time to have a baby. Jonathan has loved being outside from the day he was born. He's also been a pretty good sleeper right from the start. (Although there's always room for improvement!)<br />
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So, the crazy late nights and constant projects of 2009 and 2010 are long gone, but the Einsel House remains a work in progress. To those who have persistently encouraged me to keep the blog alive - thank you. I can't promise anything, but I will at least try not to take any more fourteen month absences. : )<br />
<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-49319466792800230462012-07-11T08:02:00.000-07:002012-07-11T08:02:03.248-07:00The Good Old SummertimeThe last few days have been classic summer. On Sunday we had a family reunion and then I took the kids on the local preservation society's annual garden tour. I thought the kids' patience would last through maybe four or so gardens, but they wanted to see all eight. I've got some great kids! Then for supper last night I enjoyed a big plate of sauted zucchini, red onion and tomato with some lemon pepper seasoning. Mmmmm! And the zucchini came from my own little garden:<br />
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<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-21793022628369448402012-06-27T18:41:00.000-07:002012-06-27T18:41:02.014-07:00A Sunday Stroll<div style="text-align: center;">
The heat of the day was starting to pass and it seemed like a lovely evening for a walk, so I told Charles the route I planned to take and I set off. I'd walked most of my planned route before. But then Charles had dropped the kids and I off on the creek road and we walked back home. Tonight I was by myself and I decided to make the route into a loop. It only meant adding one last section of road at the end of the walk. So... </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A glance back at the house from the end of the drive.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">0.2 miles - a brief stop to visit a few graves in the Primitive Baptist Cemetery, including Elder Lewis Seitz who married the Einsel House's first owners, Noah and Rebecca Rhinehart (he was also Rebecca's uncle)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">0.4 miles - peeking out behind those pine trees is another 1840's stone house</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.1 miles - crossing Silver Creek, site of the first mill in this township</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.3 miles - turning left onto a township road</span>,<span style="font-size: small;"> this is the longest stretch ahead of me</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.8-2 miles - I enjoy a few black raspberries growing along the side of the road</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.2 miles - turn right onto the Creek Road (this is the best part of the walk!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.4 miles - passing a wheat field during harvest</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.8 miles - Honey Creek through the trees</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">3 miles - This brick house always makes me smile. I think it's the little 'eyebrow' peaks on the porch roof that do it.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">3 miles - Old bridge across the road from the brick house. The lane across the bridge leads to a barn and a pasture with a flock of sheep</span>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.2 miles - a second old bridge crossing the creek</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.4 miles - This is an early log cabin, the original log walls are exposed under the front porch</span></td></tr>
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3.7 miles - a largish, dark colored dog at the house that's about three telephone poles ahead of me starts to bark. I say a silent prayer that the dog is tied.</div>
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3.71 miles - the large, aggressively barking dog leaves the house and begins coming toward the road. Slowing my pace, I say a silent prayer that there is one of those invisible fence systems along the side of the road.</div>
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3.72 miles - the large, very intimidating dog walks right up to the white line at the edge of the road. Damn. Nobody puts an invisible fence on the other side of the road.</div>
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Still 3.72 miles - The dog and I are both holding our ground, still more than two telephone poles apart. Regretting the decision not to bring my cell phone with me, I decide to pass the dog by making a wide circle through the soybean field beside me.</div>
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3.73 miles - The dog is still barking angrily. I'm about twenty feet or so into the field when it finally decides to cross the road and heads toward me through the soybeans. Damn, damn, damn. I'm no longer worried about getting back home, I'm just worried about getting away from this dog. Resisting the urge to run, I begin to speed walk through the field. At the moment I really don't care that I'm now heading farther away from home, just as long as I'm getting farther away from that dog. </div>
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After a few seconds I glance over my shoulder. The dog has stopped about 10 feet into the field. He's still watching me and barking angrily. Breathing a sigh of relief (but not slowing my pace) I continue walking through the field.</div>
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about 4 miles - I reach the other side of the soybean field and come out back on the creek road. Regretting again the decision not to bring along my cell phone (or even some bottled water), I resign myself to the walk ahead of me. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.2 miles - back past the early log cabi</span>n</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.4 miles - back past the second iron bridge</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.6 miles - back past the first iron bridge</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.6 miles - The eyebrow porch watches me walk past again.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.2 miles - Even when I'm tired and thirsty, I still have to admit that I love the smell of freshly harvested wheat</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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5.4 miles - A left turn back onto the township road, but I forget to document it with a picture. </div>
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5.6-5.8 miles - I'm initially hopeful as I pass the section of raspberries growing along the ditch, but realize quickly that I picked them pretty clean my first time by. </div>
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6.2 miles - I'm almost back to our road. A right turn and just over another mile and I'll be home. I hear a car coming up behind me, so I step off the side of the road.</div>
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But the car keeps slowing down.</div>
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I turn around and see my husband with the passenger window rolled down - "It seemed like you were gone quite a while, so I thought I'd come check on you."<br />
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God bless you, honey!</div>
<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-66801339040118135622012-06-15T03:42:00.000-07:002012-06-15T03:42:03.913-07:00In the DetailsI have enjoyed poring over the details revealed in the 1906 picture of our house that we were recently given. In many ways the picture confirms that thus far we've been historically accurate in our work on the house. The joint finish of the mortar in the 1906 stone walls appears to match the joint finish our masons used when they repointed the house. And I'm pretty confident that the tan paint color we used on the house is also accurate. Although the 1906 picture is in black and white, it is obvious that the paint used on the house is slightly darker than the (white?) dress worn by the woman in the picture. The one difference I see between the picture and our influence on the house is the front door. But in spite of the obviously light colored 1906 front door, I have no plans to part with my Carriage House Red front door any time soon. : )<br />
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The picture also provides details for future work we would like to do. We knew the house originally had shutters (the hinges are still on the 2nd story window frames), but I've pondered what color to paint the shutters when we someday replace them. Now I know to go dark - a deep forest green seems appropriate based on the picture. We also now know that the original first story windows have always been six-over-six. This detail did surprise me, as I suspected the originals would have been nine-over-six. The picket fence was also an unexpected but wonderful detail in the picture. Adding a picket fence in front of the kitchen has actually been among my plans for this summer, so I'm thrilled to now have something to model my fence after.<br />
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And peeking out behind the horses and tree on the left side
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But of all the details in the 1906 picture, the one I've spent the most time studying is the front porch. The Einsel House had a front porch when we bought it back in 2009, but it was obvious that porch was not original to the house. It was also in poor condition. So before having the front of the house repointed we removed the existing porch, planning all along to someday replace it with a more historically appropriate replacement. Thanks to one of my mom's cousins, I even have some solid wood 19th century round porch pillars tucked in the loft of our barn. They were removed from said cousin's parents' house sometime in the 1960s and had been stored in his barn since then. When he tore the barn down earlier this year he offered the pillars to me and I eagerly accepted. In my mind I could see them in an Einsel House porch - with simple corner pillars and an almost flat roof. Something very similar to the porch on the house pictured below:</div>
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Compare the porch above to what the Einsel House looked like when we bought it in 2009:</div>
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The 1906 and 2009 porches had a lot more in common than I
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the 1906 porch all appear to be the same size, while the corner pillars on the
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<span>While we are probably still years away from it, I'm so glad this picture came to us before we replaced the porch. Because the porch in that 1906 picture is even better than any porch I would have envisioned on my own. The inspiration for rebuilding the porch is now hanging in the dining room. And every time I walk by I want to stop and study the picture for more details - you know, just in case I missed something the other 2,638 times I've looked at it. : )</span></div>
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Two cousins continued a tradition this Memorial Day. One journeyed up from the south and the other down from the north. They met each other in the middle, to visit together the graves of their ancestors. But they added an extra stop this year, visiting the stone house that was in their family from 1901-1997. </div>
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The cousins are on their respective ways back home right now. But they were kind enough to leave behind a memento of their family's years here.</div>
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That's the Einsel House, circa 1906. The children are siblings, Carl and Norma Frankenfield. The woman is probably their mother, Emma Frankenfield.</div>
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For now this picture only graces the blog, but it's going to be framed and hanging on the dining room's west wall just as soon as I can get it enlarged and find an appropriate frame. </div>
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<br /></div>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-25343209904843686502012-05-13T06:00:00.001-07:002012-05-13T06:00:38.380-07:00For You, MomYou've been asking for another post here for a few weeks now and since you're on the opposite side of the country right now and any other gift will have to wait until you're home, here's an Einsel House post for you today. Happy Mother's Day! : )<br />
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The basement windows at this house have been an issue as long as we have owned the place. Previous owners raised the level of the yard in front of the house by about a foot, basically covering the basement windows on the west and north sides of the house. When we bought the house the west facing basement windows (front of the house) had been removed and the holes filled with concrete. The concrete is immediately obvious from inside the basement, but when outside the only evidence of the former windows still visible are the original window lintels, which are now right at the soil line.<br />
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The west facing basement window had not been removed, but it was in a sorry state when we bought the house. Poor drainage coupled with a poorly sloped yard meant that whenever it rained water funneled to this window, pouring through into the basement below. By the time we bought the house the sill for the window was completely gone and the two sides of the window frame were half rotted away. The window itself was still in place, but we removed it in 2009 to stop it from further deterioration. Then, because we had other more pressing issues during those late days of 2009, we temporarily "fixed" the resulting opening in the side of the house with a piece of foam board secured in place with liberal amounts of expanding foam. (Classy, I know.) Outside, we covered the atrocity with a straw bale. <br />
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And so remained until this spring. On one of our nice March days I pulled back the straw bale and dug out the long abused window. Charles helped to break loose the foam board, and then we stood back and looked at the result:<br />
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<br />Not very inspiring results for an afternoon of hard and dirty work. But it was at least a starting point. <br />
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(On a side note - I was surprised to uncover the poured concrete window well that is visible in the pictures. It gives a good idea of the original level of the yard prior to it being raised by previous owners.) <br />
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The nice weather in March gave way to a cold and wet April, so the straw bale (partnered with some plywood this time) went back over the gap in the house. Meanwhile, I cleaned up the original three light window. What had been the bottom exterior side was partially rotted, so I removed what was too far gone and treated what remained with a rotted wood stabilizer. I also decided that when reinstalled I would rotate the window, so that the former exterior bottom (most exposure to water/weather) would become the interior top (least exposure to water/weather). With the window primed and under one coat of paint I got to try my hand at glazing - and found I rather enjoyed it. Luckily we had enough correctly sized panes of old glass to put two panes in each of the window's lights. Another coat of paint, and the window was ready to go. The frame was another story.<br />
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After taking the pictures above, I pried out what remained of the two sides of the frame. They were too far rotted to try to save. Each piece was a true 2" thick and 11" wide. I called the local specialty lumber shop, but the owner said he could manage either 2" thick OR 11" wide, but in order to do both he would need to glue pieces together. That didn't sound like a good idea for wood that was going to be used in a basement window frame below grade. At my mom's suggestion (Hi, Mom!) she and I went back up to the old Second Empire house we salvaged bricks from last year. This time we salvaged wood. While we didn't find any 2x11 boards, we did bring home a 2 x 9 1/2 that we thought we could make work.<br />
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With mom's help, we cut pieces for the new window frame. Under the gray weathered surface of that old wood was beautiful quarter sawn oak. I commented to mom that you'd never find 2 inch thick quarter sawn oak used to frame a house today.<br />
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Back at the Einsel House, I decided to dry fit the pieces we had cut for the new frame before painting them. That turned out to be a good idea. At some point during that long afternoon I decided that it was definitely easier for the Einsel House's builders to build the stone walls around the already constructed window frame than it was for me to try to fit a new frame into the already constructed stone walls. When I finally got everything to fit together nicely, I pulled everything back out. Since this wood will all be below grade I wanted to prime and paint all sides of each piece before installing them for good.<br />
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-seal, prime and paint (2 coats) the new sill and frame</div>
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- build a stone retaining wall to bring the window well up to the current level of the yard</div>
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And, as of late yesterday afternoon, here is the "new" window:</div>
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<br />Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-1626897106036929962012-04-02T18:01:00.000-07:002012-04-02T18:01:17.746-07:00Spring ProjectsFor the past few weeks I've been anxiously watching the weekend weather forecasts, fingers crossed for good weather. I've got multiple projects started and more that I'm itching to start. But a few days ago Charles politely suggested that perhaps I should finish a current project (or three) before I take on anything new. He's probably right - if because if there's such a thing as DIY-ADHD than I've definitely got it. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50zdCOih-vdZgz3yjpiR3eSLsu-QcwW6dmA3wOAeP-jlqoFZFK9Y4zXETQZV5u8f1460I4lUWHNP0bmrYI1BP1agNTl_ivWyVQxkYGSgPgF2F_TFzd5NWoHGiRW4lWNd6fB8v50Ggbrm7/s1600/Schwartz+on+ladder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi50zdCOih-vdZgz3yjpiR3eSLsu-QcwW6dmA3wOAeP-jlqoFZFK9Y4zXETQZV5u8f1460I4lUWHNP0bmrYI1BP1agNTl_ivWyVQxkYGSgPgF2F_TFzd5NWoHGiRW4lWNd6fB8v50Ggbrm7/s320/Schwartz+on+ladder.jpg" width="306" /></a>About a month ago I finally gave up on the blue paint in the kitchen. I had high hopes for it in the beginning, but after two years I had to admit it wasn't growing on me. It took several tries to find a new color for the room - the pale yellow in the picture to the left lasted only a few days before being painted over with a more tan/gray beige. Schwartz, by the way, loved having an 8 foot ladder in the kitchen. <br />
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Other recent interior projects included Cecilia's quilt - finished last weekend - and the living room baseboards. The latter project has been delayed by attempts to match the color of the new baseboard to the original walnut trim. A local paint store has graciously allowed me to take home various stains, and I'm getting closer but still not quite satisfied enough to finish the new baseboard.<br />
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Outside, I spent the first nice day this spring digging out a basement window on the north side of the house. The yard around the house was raised a foot by previous owners and the basements windows (at least the ones that were not filled in with concrete) were in desperate need of attention. We had temporarily dealt with this by blocking the windows with heavy foam board secured around the edges with expanding foam. Classy, I know. But the remaining north facing window is now dug out and ready to be rebuilt. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The first layer is topsoil added by a previous owner. The middle layer is concrete window well poured before the level of the yard was raised. Below is a closer view of the window opening. The window sill is completely gone and both sides are rotted beyond repair.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And finally, one last project that's in the works. I've got my mom to thank for this again. Over the winter she rebuilt the sashes for the springhouse windows. They're in her workshop now (with the basement window) primed and ready for paint. But before I primed them mom brought them over to be sure they fit the springhouse. This is just a hint of what the finished windows should look like, but I'm pretty tickled with this as well.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Based on the forecast for this weekend hopefully I'll be able to share a bit more progress on these projects soon. : )</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-14728288077306993712012-02-26T12:18:00.001-08:002012-03-02T06:13:33.864-08:00Fourteen Months Later....I got a phone call from my mom after church this morning asking if she could stop by with some sections of baseboard for our living room. (A mere fourteen months after<a href="http://www.einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/youre-gonna-wind-up-where-you-started.html" target="_blank"> the last post</a> on this topic here.) I had no idea my mom had been working on these and the unexpectedness of her surprise made it even more exciting to see the boards against the wall and marked to length. As I explained in my earlier post, recreating the profile on the upper portion of the baseboards proved to be a challenge. But I'm lucky enough to have a mother employed at a woodworking shop and in the end her boss recreated the profile by hand - and did an excellent job. Side by side, the new baseboard is an almost perfect match to the original. For local readers who need any custom woodwork I highly recommend Brad's Woodworks of Attica (and not just because my mom works there!)<br />
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Other projects are progressing as well. The shed doors are resting in the shop, just waiting for a nice weather day to hang them. I'm anxious to see the doors and their hardware on the shed. (But not quite anxious enough to stand outside in late February weather to install them!)<br />
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And Cecilia's quilt top is all pieced. I'm using a darning foot for the first time to quilt it. It's definitely a learned skill, but I'm having fun with it and I'm pleased with the results to far.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Lastly, I've been lax in introducing our new house cat. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Meet Schwartz, the luckiest of Ethel's litter from last spring:</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The kids think Schwartz has been a great addition to the family. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Tiny the Cat is a bit less enthusiastic, though. : )</div>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-51406410702978767072012-02-01T06:54:00.000-08:002012-02-01T06:54:57.594-08:00But did it land on its feet?From the British Daily Mail - "Bringing old homes up to scratch is nothing out of the ordinary for property renovators Andrew and George Hartley,<br />
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But this professional couple nearly jumped out their skin when greeted by their most recent form of preservation - <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092663/Tutan-CAT-mun-18th-Century-mummified-kitty-falls-ceiling-house-renovated.html" target="_blank">as a mummified cat fell on them</a>.<br />
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The couple got a face full of the ancient feline as they removed ceilings from an 18th century property in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire."Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-21306717618868258882012-01-24T17:30:00.000-08:002012-01-24T17:30:38.059-08:00Winter Projects<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2JCRdhbpIUgruFbAYcvzBHM6cbaQB-QzI4rM66-1Wdru_FhxSZ5NOgReUDB_Q0xJT3NjOopzJhMLmxjQdntWxC9WFni56SXviOVQTL4485w0WipXKjsSW-QhjipynwVLyFgt671p01fw/s1600/Celia+painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2JCRdhbpIUgruFbAYcvzBHM6cbaQB-QzI4rM66-1Wdru_FhxSZ5NOgReUDB_Q0xJT3NjOopzJhMLmxjQdntWxC9WFni56SXviOVQTL4485w0WipXKjsSW-QhjipynwVLyFgt671p01fw/s400/Celia+painting.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Since I've been getting some none too subtle hints that I'm long overdue for a post here I decided to share a couple of pictures from two projects I'm currently working on. The picture of Cecilia at right was taken a few weeks ago when I was just starting to build doors for the shed that dominated most of my posts from last summer. Both doors are now completely built and only waiting for one last coat of paint before they will be hung.<br />
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And below is my other current project, it shows three (of an eventual eleven) rows for a scrap quilt I've been wanting to make for a while now. I added the fourth row tonight. There's something about piecing a quilt that's just perfect for chilly winter evenings!<br />
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A couple of blanket chests sell the same day, and I can just see one setting in front of our couch, holding the blankets that for now are just stacked on the floor.<br />
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Another piece I can see in the Einsel House is a corner cupboard. And I've got a few specific requirements for this corner cupboard. Since it would go next to the open shelves in the dining room, I want the corner cupboard to have solid doors. The cupboard also will need to be a bit on the small side, as there is only three feet from the corner of the room to the register along the east wall. In about a year of searching I've only seen a few such cupboards available (and none of those close enough to be convenient). So imagine my excitement earlier this week when I went on Craigslist and saw this:<br />
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And only about 10 miles from us! I called the phone number listed and arranged to look at the piece after work yesterday. Charles could tell how excited I was about the cupboard and told me if it was what I wanted to go ahead and get it. <br />
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So a little after five last night I got home, put away my purse and told Charles I had enjoyed chatting with the cupboard's owner for about half an hour, and that he had grudgingly come down to my price. And that I didn't buy the corner cupboard. Of course, Charles' first words were, "Why not?". The answer is that I'm picky. Walking up to the cupboard I had immediately sensed something was not quite right. It was made of pine. And when I opened the upper door and saw the narrow beadboard interior I realized the problem. A closer look at the hardware confirmed it - the cupboard dates from around 1920, give or take a few years. It was the right size, the right shape, the right color, just not the right age. <br />
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The cupboard's owner might have just been trying to make me feel better, but when I finally (and apologetically) told him I couldn't take the cupboard he said, "I understand. I'd think twice myself before putting that cupboard in an 1840's house." I'm well aware that I'll probably never find a true mid nineteenth century walnut or cherry corner cupboard for the price I was offered yesterday. But I woke up this morning with no regrets at yesterday's decision. I suspect this means I'm an antique snob. If so I can't deny it. <br />
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(And sorry I've been scarce around here. I've been having fun with some writing of a <a href="http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/542746/Save-money--then-reconsider.html?nav=5008" target="_blank">slightly different sort</a> lately.)<br />
Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-67287179245401467672011-11-28T11:07:00.000-08:002011-11-28T11:07:15.283-08:00Drip Edge<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlr5Gzbv5ZG8OcJ96z4ghgRAcbLihCOy4LnX7djt4bCnKxWUhM0krYr0M3F15WaGglhAsm5zAaR0TLadq17C_dx4knuDXUtZ6DCzqUITk8wh1ySNq-1XliiEFJRQCBhyrPLKRUZhBB-MU/s1600/Drip+Edge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlr5Gzbv5ZG8OcJ96z4ghgRAcbLihCOy4LnX7djt4bCnKxWUhM0krYr0M3F15WaGglhAsm5zAaR0TLadq17C_dx4knuDXUtZ6DCzqUITk8wh1ySNq-1XliiEFJRQCBhyrPLKRUZhBB-MU/s400/Drip+Edge.JPG" width="196" /></a>Since Kate asked on my last post - "Is that horizontal strip above the door a drip edge?" - I'll answer here. Yes - it is a drip edge. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>To the right is a simple profile of how the drip edge fit together. (Just pretend that the garish bright yellow and red are a more respectable tan and maroon - Homestead Resort Parlor Taupe and Carriage Door to be precise.) I used my mom's SawStop table saw (and my dad's help) to make the angled cuts and everything fit together pretty easily.<br />
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The drip edge is functioning exactly as intended. I know this because at the end of my last Saturday of outdoor work I spent 40 minutes on a stepladder in the rain wiping Carriage Door-tinted rain splatters off of the Homestead Resort Parlor Taupe drip-edge. (It had been overcast all day, but the forecast for that Saturday had no mention of "rain" and given my dwindling number of days with temperatures above freezing I figured I would be safe painting on a forecast of "mostly cloudy".)<br />
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The hinges and latch for the doors that will go under this drip edge finally arrived last Friday, so I should be moving on to door building soon.Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-36990665449192484382011-11-20T17:39:00.000-08:002011-11-20T17:39:47.333-08:00In the Details<div style="text-align: center;">There's an old barn just south of here on the county line that rests quietly in a grove of trees. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been known at times to take a slightly longer route than necessary just so I could enjoy the scene pictured above. Still, I had been driving by this barn for several years before I noticed a little detail near the gable peak.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This whole summer as I was working on our little Einsel shed I've had the old barn in mind. So earlier this summer, with camera in tow, I stopped at the old barn. Although I knew there were three stars in the old barn's gable, it was only from inside the barn that I realized the peak was a five point star while the two lower were six point stars.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And so, the south facing gable peak of the Einsel shed:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am so thrilled with how this turned out. There's no corresponding interior picture from the shed, though. Behind my stars are boards painted black with several holes drilled through to provide ventilation. Secured to the front of the black-painted boards is a layer of screen to hopefully prevent wasps from nesting inside the shed. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've really enjoyed my work on this side of the shed, bringing to reality the details I've seen in my mind for so long.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Obviously, I'm not quite finished yet. The upper right corner will continue out to incorporate the new awning, and I've got two doors to build and install. With Thanksgiving and December around the corner I figure my outside work is basically done for the year, but I'm hoping my mom won't mind if I use her (heated) shop - and perhaps advice - while building the doors. The door hardware I ordered is on backorder right now, so I've got a little time anyway. (Oh, and since I'm guessing some may be curious, the thick wire hanging off of the roof is from the lightning rod. I'm thinking eventually it will be rerouted to hang over the back of the shed instead of the front.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not too bad considering what the poor little building looked like last May:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">My goal is to get this side finished before winter. If Mother Nature cooperates (and I can keep myself away from Wii Tetris) I think I'll make it.</div>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-74236272979728615042011-10-31T15:20:00.000-07:002011-10-31T15:20:01.390-07:00I'm Going to Choose to Take That as a Compliment....A couple of weeks ago I was out working on the shed when I noticed a vehicle pull into the end of our driveway. It stopped at the end of the drive, but looked like my parent's vehicle, so I figured they were picking up the mail and would then come up to the house. But no one got out of the car and it never progressed up the drive. Just about the time it dawned on me that it was not my parents, the car backed out and drove (very s...l....o....w....l....y) down the road. <br />
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I'm going to assume they were just admiring the house and not scoping the place out for less savory reasons.<br />
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But whoever that visited a couple weeks ago was just completely outdone. 10 minutes ago Cecilia looked out the window and said, "We have company!". Sure enough, a silver minivan was coming up the drive. I slipped on my shoes and went out to greet our visitors, but as I opened the door they were already turning around. I began to walk down the sidewalk anyway and sure enough, just between the barn and shed the van's brake lights came on. I got about half-way to the van (they had to see me) when the driver let off the break and took the rest of the lane at a pretty good clip. They headed north out the drive.<br />
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I'm not sure what to think. I'm guessing they just came up the drive to get a better view of the house, but I admit I'm puzzled (and a bit concerned) nonetheless. I've got a few tools I've been keeping out in the shed, but they'll be locked in the house before nightfall tonight.Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-47353141430516230992011-10-17T07:03:00.000-07:002011-10-17T07:03:43.458-07:00Guest Post at Old House DreamsI want to thank Kelly at Old House Dreams for allowing me to author a guest post on the <a href="http://oldhousedreams.com/2011/10/17/1884-beaux-arts-courthouse-tiffin-oh/">Seneca County Courthouse</a>. <br />
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I mentioned earlier this year the county commissioners’ attempt to close the Seneca County Museum and <a href="http://einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/that-which-they-labored-for.html">auction off its contents</a>. Thankfully the museum now appears to be safe, but the county’s 1884 Beaux Arts Courthouse remains on the chopping block, with bids for demolition set to open on November 8th.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So please head over to <a href="http://oldhousedreams.com/2011/10/17/1884-beaux-arts-courthouse-tiffin-oh/">Old House Dreams</a>, and if you feel compelled please consider contacting the Seneca County Commissioners and urging them to save this irreplaceable building.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-63306506087515341982011-10-07T17:10:00.000-07:002011-10-07T17:10:07.906-07:00More SalvageI'm anxious to return to our shed this weekend, but before I do I wanted to put up one more post about salvaging from the old Second Empire brick house. I've made a total of six trips to the house, which sounds quite impressive until I admit that four of those trips were made in our 10 year old Ford Ranger and it doesn't take a whole lot to weigh the back of that little truck down. Still, I have a decent pile of material from the old house that will live on here at the EH.<br />
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As the picture at left shows, it was easiest to gather exterior bricks by taking apart the few sections of wall that were still intact. And although it's difficult to tell in the pictures, I could also identify exterior bricks by the color of mortar on them. This appeared to be lime based (white) on the exterior course and clay (?) based (tan) on the interior courses. <br />
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Back home and neatly stacked, my brick supply for next summer looks like this:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">My seven salvaged stone lintels are stacked just beside the bricks:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm thinking that when we tackle rebuilding the stone bridge I will try to incorporate these lintels as steps from the bridge down to a path along the creek.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Finally, one last picture from the old house. When I climbed up on the pile of rubble I was shocked to find this section of the old mansard roof still partially intact:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">There were three different shapes of slate shingles incorporated into this roof - rectangle at the very top, diamond in the center and hexagon at the bottom. I have such a difficult time understanding how someone could look at this house and not think it was worth saving.</div>Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-19041446081628498402011-09-29T16:01:00.000-07:002011-09-29T16:01:56.913-07:00Shed Hardware<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Last Sunday I drove 30 miles so that I would have more than one home improvement store to peruse for hardware for double shed doors. Turns out I could have saved myself some time and just stayed home, because every store I went in had the same selection of generic T hinges as the local Lowe's. Any size I could ask for, but all the same style - and not the style I had in mind.<br />
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So I came back home and after a few hours on the computer I found (and ordered) the following:<br />
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I can't wait for these to arrive! Unfortunately, I'm going to have to be patient. Despite being listed as "in stock" I got an email immediately after placing my order estimating that the hinges will ship in late October and the latch in mid November. Disappointing to be sure, but not enough to send me back after those boring box store hinges.<br />
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Not much else to report here other than a few more salvage trips to the old Second Empire. Tuesday I loaded the back of our little Ford Ranger down with bricks, and Wednesday (in the rain) my mom and I gave the truck another test by loading up four stone window lintels. There's more rain tonight and Friday's already booked, but I want to get back this weekend for more bricks (and whatever else is too good to leave behind). Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-90901414687425366752011-09-27T08:19:00.000-07:002011-09-27T08:19:34.117-07:00A MilestoneWell, it only took two years and almost 200 posts, but I finally got my first spam comment. (At least, the first one to make it past Blogger's spam filter.)<br />
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I deleted the comment, but just so no one feels cheated I'll include it below. At 1:30 this morning from a server located in India "sell house fast" left the following comment on an eight month old post - "Hi, thanks for posting this i am looking for improve my home."<br />
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Ah, I feel like a real blogger now.Kimberlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816273368304912593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162537230101069817.post-71765103317193510342011-09-25T15:26:00.000-07:002011-09-25T15:26:39.476-07:00BittersweetAmong my future plans for the Einsel House is an herb garden with a brick walk. The garden won't happen until (at least) next summer, but I've already been stalking Craigslist for several months in case an opportunity for bricks presented itself. Unfortunately, after at least 4 months of watching no such opportunity appeared. But then last week my grandma gave me a call.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Remember <a href="http://einselstonehouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/not-on-homes-tour.html">this house</a>?</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Well, I've got a source of bricks now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My grandma knew I was looking for bricks and when she called to tell me about the huge brick house she saw being torn down on the way to her sister's it didn't take long for me to realize I knew exactly what house she was talking about. I called the owner last night and was given permission to take whatever I wanted. ("At least you were kind enough to ask first," the owner's wife said.) Two trailer loads came back today; mostly bricks but also one stone lintel and two large corbels that were not too damaged by the wrecking ball. I plan to go back for more bricks as the weather permits.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I sensed back in December that this house would never see renovation, but the salvage trip today was still bittersweet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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