We join this program already in progess ...

So I got the idea to post a blog chronicling the struggles and minor victories of my home restoration project pretty much the day I was closing on the purchase of my first home ... a ranch-style house built in 1950 in the Village of Old Hickory. The Village of Old Hickory is a planned community located in Nashville, TN (unincorporated) and was originally founded by the United States Government and the Dupont Corporation in 1917 as a planned corporate community to insulate the newly built Dupont factory from sabotage as it supplied the U.S. Military with smokeless gunpowder in an effort to whoop-up on the Kaizer. It's a fairly interesting history and you can read more about it here.

Anyway, about the blog. I had intended to post to it daily chronicling everything I had done or problems I had encountered along with detailed photos so you, the faithful reader, wouldn't have to depend on your imagination to understand what the hell I was talking about. Unfortunately, I got a little wrapped up in the demolition and conceptual stages ... okay, obsessed is probably a better word ... and forgot all about detailing the whole experience. However, fear not ... I did manage to take a number of pictures along the way and as of today May 18, 2006 (three months into things) I have started the blog and pledged to keep it up to date. In the first few posts I am going to backtrack to the closing date and move forward until I get caught up - I may leave out a few details in the process.

So without further ado I give you ... the El Rancho Chronicles.