Neighborhood as Living Room

One thing I know - if you're a sporadic blog-poster, you don't earn yourself much of an audience. I've been super lazy with this blog, but today I was looking at Ben and Heidi's website, and - eek! - they put a link to this blog in their links list! So now there's some pressure to actually post something here more frequently than every six months, if only not to embarrass them!

Also, I wanted to put in a plug for the Old North St. Louis Home & Community Tour, which is coming up May 9. You can see Ben & Heidi's amazing house, and Graham & V's rehabbed charcoal warehouse, and Tom & Susan Tchetter's swoon-worthy house (which pretty much got me fixated on moving to Old North by hook or by crook). I also wanted to post a link from Kaid Benfield at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who has been an effusive cheerleader for ONSL. I'll bet there are at least a dozen people who will want to buy him an ice cream at Crown Candy when he finally gets that long-promised neighborhood tour. 

And hey! The temp is supposed to climb this week. Thom and I have been doing a little work on the lot next to the house. Thom was the hero, digging out some nasty, decaying orange shag carpet that had been dumped on the lot and was disintegrating into the dirt. (Gross). He has it in a pile now and we just need to get a few of those big Operation Brightside bags from one of the neighbors so we can get rid of that nasty mess! We also planted a wee plot of strawberries near the front. We have some chives, southernwood & pennyroyal going in next. Stay tuned for some photos ....