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posted on
March 8th, 2011
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Updating the blogroll

In the last year of neglecting this poor blog, I haven’t been paying much attention to the blogroll. But since many of these blogs are the same blogs I read on my own feed (which I’ve a ...

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posted on
February 25th, 2011
from
City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Restaurant Report: Winter 2011

Wow, look at what happens when you take a few months off! Last time I posted on neighborhood restaurants was read more about "Restaurant Report: Winter 2011"

posted on
February 16th, 2011
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland

2011 House Resolutions

A little late, but hey. Setting the bar a bit lower on these this year given the total lack of progress on the 2010 list…so this one is short ‘n’ sweet.

1. FINISH T ...

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posted on
February 14th, 2011
from
City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Dine About Oakland: CommonWealth

Yeah, yeah, yeah, still here. And our kitchen is still not done, so still no time for writing. But one of my new year’s resolutions was to try to shake the dust off this blog and get it up an ...

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posted on
February 10th, 2011
from
City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Floored!

For a while now, actually, but I’m doing an extraordinarily bad job of keeping this blog updated…so I’ll play catch-up with some kitchen photos as we inch closer to finally wrappi ...

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posted on
December 7th, 2010
from
City Homestead
based in
Oakland

2010 House Resolutions Check-in: Jul…no, wait, December!

Whoops! In the chaos of the wedding, I somehow missed the June mid-year check-in on our house resolutions….which is just as well, since we are making very slow progress on them. But here̵ ...

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posted on
November 13th, 2010
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland
posted on
July 16th, 2010
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Kitchen Chronicles: Bungalow layout inspiration

One of the fun things about living in a 1915 bungalow is finding other similar homes and looking at what others have done with the layout over the years—and boy, are there a lot of them! As we st ...

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posted on
July 14th, 2010
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Dine About Oakland: Nex

This weekend, I wasn’t up for a real night out, but we still wanted to show our support for local restaurants. So, with some friends, we headed out to a brand-new spot that we could walk to: ...

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posted on
July 12th, 2010
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City Homestead
based in
Oakland

Kitchen Chronicles: The plan!

Bet you thought we’d abandoned this project, huh. It does feel a little like that, since I’ve had to redirect energy to several other big projects this spring….but we’re sti ...

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