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[which_chick]

I got a lot of stuff done today. Some of the stuff I got done was work stuff and some of it was personal stuff, but all in all, I felt very productive.



1. Picked up fridge dolly, delivered to tenant Bryan

2. Sanded remaining patches on walls at 349

3. Secured loose drywall to stud, patched so that it looked more wall-like.

4. Painted remaining living room wall, stairwell, two bedrooms, one closet, the hallway, and the bathroom in 349.

5. Edged kitchen, hallway, one bedroom, started on edges of bathroom

6. Called Zion (a bank) to inquire about how to remove money from our account there in case Mike wants to buy that building he's looking at. We can wire transfer (there's a charge) or, if we're willing to wait seven to ten days, they can mail us a check for free. Huzzah!

7. Called back the guy who wanted to buy a lot in the valley to build a cabin on. (Told him no dice, he'd have to buy a pre-existing lot with a cabin on it, if/when a current owner decided to sell.)

8. Rented the little house at 321 to tenants who probably don't suck.

9. Removed for-rent sign from 321

10. Visited the framing place. That'll be done in two weeks. They said they'd call me when it was done.

11. Took pocket change to the bank and got it deposited. Thirty-six dollars and a bit. :)

12. Picked up ghastly prescription mouthwash from the pharmacy.

13. Watched the fire in the Greystone (building apparently did not burn down, but cause of fire unclear. Owners are in desperate financial straits. Could be arson, there. We shall have to see.) The Greystone (historical and on the national register of blah blah blah, used to be Fraser's Tavern) is catty-corner from my office on the intersection of Pitt and Richard in Bedford.

14. Made beef-and-barley soup. Mmm-mmm good!

Comments

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Wow, a fire! The most exciting things that happened here were grocery shopping and installing lots of good freeware on Eric's laptop.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

When I left work at quarter till five, the fire looked almost out. By the 10 o'clock news, there were pictures of it on the tv with flames shooting out the roof and such -- so reports of the building surviving are quite possibly premature. I will be way more informed when I get to work this morning.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

All this talk of painting...I'm about to embark on another fit of painting, myself, though it is just in my own house. The time has come to cope with the bathroom, then I NEED to do something with the living room, the foulness of its wallpaper being nearly beyond verbal description!

[fooliv.livejournal.com]

There was a guy outside the Bush House fire here in Bellefonte just now who mentioned a fire in a historic building in "B[mumble]ford" - I thought he said "Bradford" up on the other end of the state. These old historic buildings have old, historic wiring, so I don't know if it's necessarily fiscal lightning... The smoke from the Bush House has gone from that desperate yellow-brown to a more sedate dark-grey, which suggests that they've got it under control, now. Thought they'd save the place.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, for the Greystone, the owners have had the damn place on the market for about three years, with no takers. It does not make money. They were seen shoveling coal into the basement a week ago. Admittedly, it's a coal-fired furnace, but still. And they're about thirty days from complete and total financial ruin. And the fire marshall says it looks like the fire started in the basement. Investigations on that front continue. While it's POSSIBLE that a fire conveniently started in an unsalable white elephant of a building just weeks before it drove its owners into bankruptcy, that's not the way I'd bet.

[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Well, as it turned out, they most definitely did *not* save the Bush House. Some people at work know the guy who owns Schnitzel's, the German tavern & bierhaus in the basement, and they said that he had been worried about the ancient landmark creaking over his head, and especially worried about fires, back the last time Schnitzel's got walloped, during the hurricane-remnant floods in Nov. 2004. At the time, he said that he would rebuild no matter what happened, because of the location - as this (http://planet-zero.org/~chromal/bush_tavern_fire/tn/P1010144.JPG.html) photo of the rubble-strewn patio shows, it's a brilliant location for the tourist trade, or at least, whatever tourist trade a three-gingham tweebox burg like Bellefonte is ever likely to attract.

[staceman.livejournal.com]

A bit late on this, and somewhat off-topic, but...

What do you know of the supposed old tunnels under Bedford, that date back to the fort days? The closest I've ever got to confirmation on them, is one of your neighbor businesses up there telling me that there is a bricked-in archway in their basement that was supposedly part of it. I'd love to get pics of any sort of remains of them.

What all can you tell me about this? Reply here, or via email, staceman@gmail.com :)