A Sad Sight

The photo on the right shows the room where our wedding reception was held (top left); behind that, through the doorway, is the living room where we were married in 1984. The carpet and paint were brand new.

The house, however, was not. My parents were renting it, and it had structural problems. Half the year, you could open the front door; half the year, you could open the back door. Rarely could you open both at once.  You could place an egg on the kitchen counter and it would roll off. A large crack ran vertically over the center of the entrance to the living room; sometimes, you could put your hand into it - sometimes, you could hardly see it. The house talked. Sometimes, it moaned. But it was a nice house - big, roomy, pretty. We had good times in that house.

I think they're trying to save the house, but it looks like pirates are digging for buried treasure. Maybe it's the government, digging a secret hole to China. Or it could just be they're installing piers.

Comments

[Bee]

You know, that door thing never happened to me before I bought a (60-year-old) house...  Glad to know my house is not the only one whose doors get cranky when the weather changes!

[Holly]

Either your house is settling and shifting (apparently, keeping the ground around the house moist helps) or it's the wood doors swelling when there's a lot of humidity (we have a newer house, and that happens to us - the doors swell). You don't want to sand them down much, if at all - when the air dries out, they'll shrink again and be too loose.

[Bee]

I think it's the swelling from humidity, and I am avoiding sanding with all my might -- but some days I just wanna run out and borrow my daddy's belt sander!