Arden would be arriving home in two days and, he had figured, there would be just enough time before that to paint the porch deck and the two Adirondack chairs that he had found discarded at the side of the road earlier that summer. Putting the finishing touches on the baluster’s post caps, [...]
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Posted in Part One, Section 33, tagged fiction, sloop, John Alden, wooden model shipbuilding, Adirondack chair, Cambridge on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Part One, Section 33, tagged Assam tea, balustrade, capital, Celtic loaf, marmalade, pilasters on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next morning, he had been awakened early by Talisker’s licking his hand. He had brewed himself a mug of strong Assam tea and hewn a thick slice of dark, nutty Celtic loaf, which he had toasted and slathered with soft butter and fine-cut lime marmalade (with Arden and the girls away, there [...]
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Posted in Part One, Section 33, tagged baluster, balustrade, cricket, fiction, pilaster, porch on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On arriving home, he had spread out a tarpaulin on the porch floor, set up a ladder and then, after carefully cutting in the edges of the beadboarded ceiling with Dimity, he had poured some of the thick cream-colored paint into a pan and started coating a small area with a roller that [...]
