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What would provoke you to frantically call (not text or email) a friend or family member in the middle of the workday? An emergency, I imagine. But, this particular midday conversations with John, back in March, went something like, "I found old bricks, for free, on Craigslist. They're really old. We need to go get them!"  Ok.....  I didn't know we were in the market for "free, old bricks". 

The front porch is nearly complete! Now that the weather has been cooperating, even just a little, we have been SO busy! We are just about ready for the painters. Do you feel like I've been claiming that for 3-months already? It's probably because I have been...  But seriously this time, all of the major renovation projects have been completed, and the painters are lined up. Now, we just have to wait for the weather to cooperate, even more. Not only is painting in the blistering cold miserable its also not effective. Did you know paints have a temperature rating? Who knew. It might be April, but until my weather app says it's over 50 degrees were out of luck. John's parents, in CT, just had snow last weekend... But, like I said, we've been plenty busy regardless! Here's the latest run down of completed front porch projects, best told through our Instagram account, to prove were nearly done. Side note, are you following us? If not, jump on the In...

Welcome back! Here's the final installment of the History of Content. If you need to back up, make sure to check out the History of Content Part 1 + Part 2 first. Truth be told there is so much more, detailed information about this story. Maybe I'll write a book one day. But in the meantime, here's Part 3.

The actual History of Content.: In her lifetime, Lucy Wilson, the former owner of Content., had indeed filled the house, to the brim, with priceless antiques as well as mindless junk. In the end, she had developed dementia, was unable to live alone and was moved out of Content. for the remaining few years of her life.

We're excited to kick off a 3-part series on the History of Content. There is SO MUCH to report, we're breaking it up a bit. We're also excited to announce our collaboration with Framebridge, who will be assisting us in displaying some of our newly acquired, Content artifacts.

We're in this for the long haul, guys! This porch project will consume about 100 hours of labor. No seriously, that's an actual estimation. So far, we are about half the way there. But, this past weekend we made some serious progress, specifically in the form of balustrades. A what? People, this is a learning environment. Balustrades are the entire handrail unit. (I just learned that, like 10 minutes before posting this).  We took a minor step back to assess some of the historical photographs we received from Content's previous owners (Side note: Stay tuned for a FUN collaboration which will be part of a 3-post series on the historical information we now have!) In the old pictures, you can distinctly see a large, center staircase on the porch. As we had planned, before seeing old photos, to bring this feature back, we were pleased to be on an accurate architectural path.  The current set of stairs, which sits to the west side of the porch, are brick ...

This was a great, long weekend! Historically, John + I would have been hauled up with friends in a rented, Poconos lake house for President's weekend. But, money and priorities have been Content-based these last couple years, so we made the best of it, and had a few friends over for a Poconos inspired day complimented by fire side chats, flannel, day drinking, grilled cheese and, of course, board games. Dan, with way too many Uno cards... Hadley + Jack were this years newest addition to our Poconos inspired weekend. Aside from the fun, John has continued to make awesome progress on the front porch. All of the patch work to the decking is complete, and the extra length has been trimmed. Its back to looking like a proper porch again! Hallelujah! All the deck patching is complete! I spent all of 5 seconds standing outside, imagining the porch splendor (come Spring) when the weather is warm again. For a brief (chilly) moment, we stood ima...