Rebuilding Riddle: Gut That House or Give It Up
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In post-Katrina New Orleans, the land speculators are moving in to buy up devastated properties, but the real opportunist may be the guy next door, just trying to bring back his neighborhood
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A high-country visit conjures up some childhood memories. When I was very young, my sister and I would giggle when adults talked about "going out the back". The phrase had two meanings for us. The toilet was down a path behind our house.
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Home foreclosures are expected to keep rising for months, and both parties in Washington are weighing a philosophical question with huge practical implications.
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No child should ever have to live in fear in their own home. A home should be a place where you feel safe and loved; when I was a kid, our home was anything but that.
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By Kit DaveyCTW Features  My client had lived a few paces from the sea for many years and decided to move to a bigger house on a larger lot. She already had purchased her new home and moved in. She was finishing up her home- sale preparations and wanted my help staging her property.
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As evacuation orders come down, homeowners ask: What really matters? What can't be replaced?
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People who own something valuable, like a house, want to protect themselves against financial loss. Natural disasters like fire, storms or flooding can damage or destroy valuable possessions.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 8--PASS CHRISTIAN -- If anybody assumes a contractor's house will be the first one repaired -- or rebuilt, they're likely to be wrong.
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Tycho:  To the great delight of a vocal percentage of the readership, Div has returned.  Briefly.  Now he can return to attic storage, there to languish in oak, resting in close proximity to my Spelling Bee medals and an black baseball mitt (unused).
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Alice Keller is reusing the materials from an old house on her property to build a new one.
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Tycho:  I understand he's posting these around his neighborhood, now, and I mean real Gabe, not the jpeg Gabe like you might see sur le web. If you did find it, I wouldn't bring it back to him. The most likely scenario is that he will assume that you're the one who stole it, and your "reward" will be a savage karate style maneuver delivered to your "sack of toys."
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See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.
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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. _ The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Gulf Coast people who need building materials.  It could start a trend.
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A KEY building in the history of British democracy is facing ruin unless campaigners find a means of repairing it soon.
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How the size of the housing crisis is related to the size of your house.
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Another nugget I thought would be good to share. I came home from my trip to NY and there was a pretty bad stink in the kitchen.  Smelled like garbage. It didn't take long to zero in on the source -- the garbage disposal. I tried pouring all kinds of cleaning stuff down the drain, to no avail, the smell didn't go away. Then I did a search on the Internet, found a variety of suggestions, and felt pretty sure that I'd have to call a plumber because they all seemed to assume skills and/or tools I didn't have. Instead I tried a very simple idea and amazingly it worked. 1. Put a drain stopper in the disposal so no water can flow out through the bottom 2. Fill the sink with hot water mixed with soap and chlorine bleach. The hotter the water the better. 3. With the water running put one hand on the stopper and the other on the switch, as you pull out the stopper, turn on the switch. (Be sure to do it in that order, to keep your hand from getting chopped up!) 4. Let all the water run out of the sink and leave the water running as long as there's suds. 5. Repeat two or three times. Wait a day or two. With any luck the smell will be gone. The reason this works is that junk gets stuck on the walls of the drain, and since it's garbage, it rots and stinks. By immersing it in soapy water, the junk gets dislodged and goes down the drain and out of your life.
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1. You're about 60 years old and you've spent your entire life as a carpenter.  You come home one day after a long backbreaking day spent planing a piece of wood.  Your young bride has some news for you.  She's pregnant.  Now, you haven't slept with her (at your age the only wood you play with is at the office) and so you ask, "Who have you been sleeping with?"  She says, "No one."  Do you:    A) Call her a lying slut.  B) Say to yourself, "Joseph, we must remember the Lord works in mysterious ways."  C) Say to her, "I don't believe you but this better be the LAST son of God."