Tag: Neighborhoods

• Life in suspended animation

  There’s siding on our house now. The plumbing is mostly in place, but no water is running and nothing like a sink is connected to the plumbing yet. A skeletal electrical system runs through the house, but also is not connected to any actual electricity. The floor of the garage is now concrete instead of…

  Mark

  July 17, 2015

  Life 2015

  Easthampton MA, House buying, House construction, Mount Tom, Neighborhoods, Neighbors, Ruin porn

• It’s better outside

  I have a blessedly short commute to work, about three miles each way. The fastest way to work involves driving through a suburban, tree-lined neighborhood. This neighborhood is a lot like mine: single family homes with a third to half acre lawns, streets with sidewalks, trash collected on Tuesday and Fridays (I know because I…

  Mark

  September 13, 2012

  Best of Occam’s Razor, Life 2012

  Community, Nature, Neighborhoods, Neighbors, Outdoors