the tents go up
as i go down
down to the flats and into the sound
the closer i get to the city
the further i am from memory
in the green grass looking up
for the words of the angry sun
‘noone’ when he says ‘noone’
yeah he means ‘noone’
noone
noone will survive
ash wednesday alive
current affairs, daily life, music | kristen September 11, 2008 | 
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Choosing Holyoke as a place to make our home has been a wonderful decision so far. And it’s a decision made even more wonderful when friends buy houses within walking distance. Jennifer and Scott celebrated their recent purchase with a housewarming yesterday — it included delicious pancakes and the music of The Primate Fiasco. Photos here.
daily life, food and drink, holyoke, music, photography, western mass | kristen September 8, 2008 | Comments (1)
I caved and decided to put photos up on flickr. Over the years I’ve used different photo sharing sites. I have photos all over the place–from buzznet, which ended up appealing to a much younger audience than I am a part of, to facebook and everything in between. But from now on, you can find my most recent photos at flickr. Of course, I’ll always pull photos out on occasion and write about them here.
blogging, photography | kristen September 5, 2008 | Comments (0)
One of our tenants is painting the side of our house to help pay off some of her rent. For some reason the previous owners decided to paint the house a few years ago using paint that was not meant for brick. Over the course of the summer, the tenants have been chipping away at the paint, filling in holes with cement and reconstructing bad bricks. One day we discovered that an advertisement used to be painted on the side of the house. This must have been from when the storefront was a grocery store many decades ago. We thought it was pretty neat. But I still like the after photo better.
holyoke, home improvement, photography, western mass | kristen September 4, 2008 | Comments (3)
I have yet to get a proper photo of Molly using her spider-like skills to get down from our balcony, but I did catch this photo of her waiting for me to leave so that when I was out of view she could shimmy down. Sure enough, as soon as I came back upstairs after grabbing this shot, she had traded places with me and was looking up at me from the yard. I didn’t catch that shot, because I was just too exasperated. In this photo she is likely spying on some birds.
daily life, holyoke, pets, western mass | kristen August 22, 2008 | Comments (3)
Remember when I blogged about our neighbor’s wall that crumbled to the ground? Well, A few days after that someone was reconstructing the wall. The same guy quoted us a price for part of our stone wall and less than a week later we’ve got a nice looking retaining wall (for not a ton of money). We haven’t done the front of our house yet, but the section he did complete was in danger of collapsing. I think our front retaining wall has at least another year left before it starts to look bad. First photo is before, second photo is during, and third photo is after.
holyoke, home improvement, western mass | kristen August 21, 2008 | Comments (3)
Last night, our neighborhood watch group took a tour around the ward. Much of it seemed like a photo opportunity for the sheriff and chief of police, but it was also a good chance for us to finally mingle with some of our neighbors. I posted photos of the Ward 4 walk at MassLive.com.
P.S. Here’s a better link: Gallery view
daily life, holyoke, western mass | kristen August 7, 2008 | Comments (0)
This morning when we were taking out the garbage, we discovered a portion of our neighbor’s stone wall has crumbled to the ground. Out of respect for my neighbors, I didn’t take a photo, but it makes me worry about OUR stone wall. I had been worried about it in the past, but our handyman told us it would hold up fine. Now I’m not so sure, seeing as I always thought the neighbor’s wall was so much more secure than ours.
daily life | kristen August 6, 2008 | Comments (4)
I’m currently recovering from a somewhat crazy week. It started at the vet where we took all three cats to get shots. Molly and Luddie were perfectly manageable, but Miles went into a possessed state when the vet put his hands on him. The vet and the technician ended up having to put on heavy-duty gloves and corner him with a net. When they finally got the shot in him and put him back into the cardboard cat carrier (it’s my fault that he wasn’t in a carrier of his own so we had to get one from the vet), the bottom fell out of it. So, they had to do it all over again. Miles weighs 18 lbs, by the way.
holyoke, pop culture, western mass | kristen August 1, 2008 | Comments (0)
I’m currently recovering from a somewhat crazy week. It started at the vet where we took all three cats to get shots. Molly and Luddie were perfectly manageable, but Miles went into a possessed state when the vet put his hands on him. The vet and the technician ended up having to put on heavy-duty gloves and corner him with a net. When they finally got the shot in him and put him back into the cardboard cat carrier (it’s my fault that he wasn’t in a carrier of his own so we had to get one from the vet), the bottom fell out of it. So, they had to do it all over again. Miles weighs 18 lbs, by the way.