This sign has been up for well over a year. But I didn’t see a for sale sign near the house. Unfortunately I didn’t have a transistor radio with me at the time either. So, is a talking house a sales pitch or something else?
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What the Helen of Troy is This
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Anyone familiar with this program? Even if it didn’t exactly work these signs were well worth the effort.
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Either someone is buried there or it took a really long time to build this house. Has anyone seen anything like this before? What does 1868-1957 signify?
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Walking down 14th Street this lady approached me with her “model” selling jewelry and pitching the holistic health store. I was actually in the market for some coral necklaces but the model freaked me out too much. Has anyone else encountered this sales pitch? Dang, just looking at the photo it freaks me out.
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So if your outdoor stairs are completely carpeted do you use a vacuum cleaner to clean it?
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What the hell do they use these mailboxes that don’t open for?
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I see these all over many real estate signs. So what are they? Would they sway one in buying one house over another? I seem to recall a friend of mine saying that they’re not actually that useful. Like there is some sort of high deductible or something. Please educate me.
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I was absolutely stunned to encounter this lawn jockey on my walk about this past weekend. I didn’t just take a double take, I took a quadruple take. Then I slapped my face a few times and looked again. Indeed, I thought I may have been transported back decades. I thought for sure this must have been one of the most racist things I’ve ever encountered in DC. But maybe I was wrong. I did a little research when I got back home and apparently back in the Underground Railroad days these lawn jockeys used to signify a safe place. Sometimes those supporting the Underground railroad would tie a a green string around the wrist to signify a safe place. You can read more about the history at this Web site or here at the Wikipedia entry.
So after reading the history a bit, what do you think about encountering a lawn jockey like this? Is it racist or in homage to the Underground railroad or is it simply a lawn decoration?
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How come I’ve only seen them in the U Street area? Are there no historical houses in Columbia Heights and Petworth? I mean Lincoln loved Petworth right, that’s historic?
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What the hell is zone 4C? Incidentally, Let me ask you: Should I sell my car? I never use it really. I’ll use it to buy groceries once every three months and occasionally go golfing but other than that I don’t really use it. Should I just use Zip car? I remember we spoke about the spots outside Domku a while ago. But I forget, can anyone vouch for Zip car?