August, 2005

This weekend we went to an open house three houses down, and chated with one of our neighbors about how much we enjoy the neighborhood, and the sturdiness of our 1970’s homes. Then she let me in on the following rumor that had been being passed from neighbor to neighbor for the past 8-9 years. The story goes something like this:

Chris the former owner of our house only paid $55K for the house because the sellers were very motivated and wanted to unload it is as quickly as possible. When Chris moved in there was a gross black stain on the carpet, so she had it replaced. After a year or so the black stain returned, and couldn’t be cleaned away. She then found out that one of the previous owners had died in that spot (perhaps by foul play).

I don’t believe it, and know for a fact that Chris paid more than 55K for the house. However, I am interested enough to dig up the names of previous owners and do a bit of research.

Katherine, Chris, Blake, and I went to see Elvis Costello featuring Emmylou Harris at Wolftrap last night. It was an amazing performance, and the artists did an amazing job of playing each other’s songs.

Some of the surprises;

• Emmylou Harris had a sandwhich named after her at the Childe Harold, although it no longer appears to be on the menu.
• Elvis Costello sounds great singing country songs and apparently released a country album in 1981.
• Elvis Costello breaking into that famous Santana guitar solo
• Adding the lyrics “Admit that you lied” in the chorus of the Scarlet Tide
• The songs from the Delivery Man are much better when performed live. I will have to give the album another listen.

Now to see if I still think it was worth it after suffering through a monday on 5 hours of sleep.
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