Fresh Cement!

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Our house is over a hundred years old, but there is a couple of dog paw prints in the basement. I dunno if they did it on purpose or if it was a mistake, but it's actually kind of cool.

We bought our house in 1991, but it was old-school, even to us, when we bought it. It looked like the most recently done room in the house was the bathroom.

Apparently, it's not good to tell my hubby the tile in the bathroom were hideous. I don't even remember saying it once, but one day he ripped out the wall to give me new tile. (And also plasterboard should be updated too, although I really didn't understand why when he told me.) And then we might as well update the whole bathroom.

The newest renovation in our house was done in September 1963 -- one month before JFK was killed. I know this because someone stuck a newspaper under the tub. We closed in the tub, but before we did, I tossed in that day's newspaper to surprise the next owners of this house.

 

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hay Tinuviel,

our house is also over 100yrs. old, we have the 'roots' to prove it....they are literally coming above
ground is many places, we are wondering how long it will be before our house is literally lifted-up
to the heavens!!!

wwjd,
go ahead and run away to Oslo, but, you will eventually find that 'chickens' can literally solve
all of our problems.....

We had brick under our sidewalk! Wow! That really surprised me, because this part of Philly was new when it was built, but it was made for the newest wave of immigrants -- those Italians. (Every new wave of immigrants into America becomes some kind of assault to Americans. They start on the bottom rung and then have to prove themselves by raising their kids to become successes.) So this neighborhood was made over a swamp in relative cheapness. I always consider bricks "rich people's sidewalks." I was truly surprised to see them under our sidewalk, because our sidewalk had stones in it -- which is a cheap way to spread out concrete and get rid of some rubble from another site.

 

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You might be right there,

They taste good, provide filling for pillows/quilts,
provide eggs, provide fertiliser, act as an alarm clock in the morning.
eat insects, look pretty. Hey they even paint door frames and window sills.

Meh! Chicken taste like salty frog legs.

 

[Miri]

Meh! Chicken taste like salty frog legs.

Ive never had salty frogs legs so can't tell.

I would rather do the funky chicken though than hoppit like a frog.

Does that even make sense, I'm not sure I'm tired. Bed time very soon Zzzz

 

[Tinuviel]

LOL I forgot all about Kilroy, and that would have been the picture I'd put in cement when I was a kid. That was always the first thing I drew in my assignment books. LOL

And I did consider putting the teddy bears' paw prints, but cement is alkaline base, and I was afraid it would damage their fur. (A bit frightening how similar we are in this. lol)

That is frightening! lol. And I don't exactly recommend the teddy bears...

 

[resurrection33]

Guys are out front of my house putting in our new sidewalk. When I was a kid, I always wanted to write something in cement. The kid is still in me!

I'm still trying to decide if I will call hubby to ask or if I'll just stick a couple of leaves from our forsythia bush in it as an imprint or if I write our initials in the proverbial heart or if the grownup wins out and I leave it be.

Now remembering cement isn't something you can write a whole lot in, go for it. What did you always want to do in fresh cement?

Well, I certainly hope you let the adult inside you win out. If it were me, I think I'd put my foot in it.