Posted in neighborhood on December 3, 2022| 2 Comments »
The last few months were warmer than usual. The trees didn’t drop most of their leave until the last few weeks. Street sweeping stopped the first week of November for my neighborhood. Most of the streets now look like the photo above. They will look this way until spring unless we have high winds to blow this mess onto the eastern prairies.
Posted in neighborhood on October 20, 2022| 5 Comments »
Posted in neighborhood on October 12, 2022| 3 Comments »
The owners of this house have set the neighborhood bar high for Halloween decorations. It’s not an expansive display but it is very impressive in person given the scale of the skeletons.
Posted in architecture, my life, neighborhood on May 6, 2022| 13 Comments »
This new house was originally going to be 12,000 sq. ft. It looks like the main house is more like 20,000 sq. ft. There’s also a guest house which is not pictured.
Developers have started on two other houses in the neighborhood but neither will be this big as they are on much smaller lots.
Posted in neighborhood on January 14, 2022| 7 Comments »
There’s another round of scraping and building about to start. All of these houses are being torn down in the next 2 months. Buyers are spending unbelievable amounts of cash to get the land. They only care about the size of the lot and the location. They don’t care about the house. When a house sells it’s not a matter of if it will get torn down, but rather, how soon in will be scrapped.
Posted in neighborhood on December 23, 2021| 6 Comments »
The service entrance to my neighbor’s property is decorated better than most of the houses in the neighborhood. It is stunningly beautiful.
Posted in neighborhood on November 18, 2021| 6 Comments »
The holiday lights on this house were installed that day after Halloween. It seems a bit early to me. Can’t we get through Thanksgiving before the holiday lights are turned on?
Posted in architecture, neighborhood on November 15, 2021| 4 Comments »
This two-bedroom house was built in 1952:
Two years and $5m later this 5-bedroom house has been built on the lot:
The picture doesn’t do the house justice. It’s a stunning example of mid-century inspired architecture.
Posted in neighborhood, politics on August 23, 2021| 12 Comments »
One of my neighbors has been nominated to be the next ambassador to two European countries. I’m sure the private fundraiser held at their house in 2019 had nothing to do with the nomination.
Posted in neighborhood on July 20, 2021| 7 Comments »
My neighbor texted to let me know three police cars were at the home of the troubled woman who lives with her parents around the corner. A second text advised she was taken away unrestrained in the back of one of the police cars. I can’t help but wonder if she would have been shot or handcuffed if she were black.
The Corporate Slave 