SNACK
(formerly known as Daily Snack, but now less daily)
We bought a run down dump of a 100-year-old house.
The walls were a special shade of hospital green meets 50 years worth of cigarette smoke.
Add hordes of stray cats peeing all over the place,
And you start to get an idea of how it smelled.
Also, no kitchen on the main floor, two layers of vinyl tile over hardwood on the second,
And waist-high weeds covering the property.
Believe it or not, it was not abandoned.
There were people paying rent to live here.
But good bones, you know?
Refinish the upstairs floor, wash and paint the walls, do some weeding,
Put in a kitchen,
And voila!
It’s only slightly dumpy.
But sitting near the dining room now,
I notice the window sill has been finished with random strips of ill-fitting molding.
Really, what is up with THAT?