How they lived...

Apparently my neighbors, the Trickharts, have a competing blog (http://renovationnotes.blogspot.com/) claiming to document the “renovation” of their 1946 Central Phoenix home.

Pretention Alert!  Brownstones are renovated, tract homes are remodeled.

Their blog is misleading, at best.  The images on their blog are NOT of the remodeling process - they are images of how the Trickharts have been living for the past seven years. They didn’t decide to remodel, the city decided for them - with an injunction.

Many of us in the neighborhood have been discussing their little shanty eyesore for years.  We are glad someone down at City Hall has finally forced the Trickharts into the 20th Century.  I imagine they will eventually be dragged into the 21st Century but probably not without further governmental intervention.

The “renovation crew” has just left for the day so I imagine the night shift of squatters will be arriving anytime now.

- C Smith