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Welcome to my degenerated Victorian abode and I am the slum bunny.
Draw bridge here and um, I'll linger under it exacting tolls when people walk through here.
Please, two golden dollars to get in.
You know those little golden dollars I love to spend.
Legal tender.
This is our pigeon ranch,
and this is the collection device for all the pigeon ***.
What used to be the roof is is now a nesting area for our local pigeons.
You'll notice the clinker bricks within the brick
is a feature you'll find in front of the house, on the front of the house
and the brick from the brick factories they would have these little clinkers
that would be molten rock and used these as features.
The uh Norton thee architect uh also designed and built
the Carnegie library down the street and uh uh couple other notable state buildings.
This this is his home, this was the home he built for himself;
hence the Norton House,
um or the Scissor House, I should say actually
uh with the gothic doorway with the gothic arch, which I'm told by a noted...
So I just got my fourth roofing quote, we have that roofing permit
which is rare and unusual. Everything has to go through historic preservation
and the hoops we have to jump through are phenomenal.
We're about this far from having remodeling permit based on having permitted to get it done.
Since the fire this house has been, re-founded, re-framed,
re-plumbed, re-wired to where you see it, and leave the structure intact,
and we might be able to save this instead of redoing it.
The roof permitted and approved by historic preservation, dimensional asphalt shingles.
Dancing the salsa with her 29 year old grandson.
You know high kicks and dips and stiff lay down lifts...
My Alter all the found objects, all the tasty found objects
favorite found objects. The whole area is a debris field of found objects
these are my favorites and these are my raven's feathers
and wire, bits of string, gum, and all these people have tried to steal
from here and broken along the way. All have jumped the fence.
That's my little Alter.
...have them removed. They weren't damaged by the fire, didn't see a reason to have them removed, but they're gone now
We've decided 'Ghetto Gelato'
Ghetto gelato is a real word, isn't that wonderful. Ghetto gelato.
We missed the debris field.
It's not opening the door.
There and are in but ya. These are blows with some other bladed instrument...
Obviously also splattere with paint
That would be a real job involved, at lease refinishing.
and of course there's some half eaten spaghetti that garnishes the floor nicely
Hatched blades and hatchet marks
...removed from the doors and removed from the premises
they're not uh anywhere we can find them
there the findings and fittings for the doors have also been, well I guess stolen is the only way to say it.
and window shades, window treatments have been destroyed
This is all new, new tiles, newly laid
also splattered with the same indelible and I believe oil based yellow paint.
The bathroom is fun. We'll take a look at the kitchen.
This wall is opened up with a hammer or some other device.