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This chair was abandoned in a garage workshop. It was sturdy enough to receive a couple of custom coats of paint along the way, but in the end it was not deemed valuable enough to take along to the next … Continue reading
This chair was abandoned in a garage workshop. It was sturdy enough to receive a couple of custom coats of paint along the way, but in the end it was not deemed valuable enough to take along to the next … Continue reading
Cats had taken over this home. The litter box had been abandoned long ago, and the cats made their foul mark in every room. The previous owner smoked indoors. Garbage festered in ripped bags. Rancid food slowly decayed on the counters. … Continue reading
While exploring Guatemala’s La Recoleccion church a few weeks ago, I came across this locked passage. Closed doors have always held for me an allure of the unknown, an the addition of a skull and crossbones adds to the intrigue. This … Continue reading
While the precipitation decides whether to express itself as a solid or a liquid, our thoughts turn to the weeks ahead. Once sub-freezing temperatures head north for the summer, we can fire up the RV, dewinterize the boat, pack the … Continue reading
My musing about inhabitants past began here. During a backpacking trip some twelve years ago, I passed through the city of Antigua, in Guatemala. The city is a spectacular collection of Spanish colonial buildings, replete with cool internal courtyards, terra … Continue reading
Cat houses are some of the stinkiest ones we service. There is an ammoniac odor left behind by cat urine. And there are few biological weapons with greater gross-out power than cat feces. This house was covered in all of kitty’s physiological … Continue reading
I find myself drawn to hidden corners. Here, a large cabinet blocks direct access to the piano. From the side, though, I see the row of ivory keys, a century old, highlighted by a window at the end of the … Continue reading
I don’t know how long it had been since these books had been touched, but I would guess at least 20 years. The shelf bowed under their weight, and a tangle of cobwebs seemed to hold the books in place, … Continue reading
Bags of crushed beer cans, empty wine bottles, and sticky mixers waited in the living room of this home. With current prices for recycled aluminum cans at around $0.52 a pound, there isn’t a fortune in these bags, but still … Continue reading
Atop the filing cabinets, an old flight log sat. The last entries are from the late 1970s, and other than this single book, there were no other evident indicators that this was a flying household.
