Oh my word. There was a summit in our kitchen between us, a carpenter and a drywaller. We all stood, arms folded, all eyes fixed on the kitchen ceiling. Drywaller: Yes, that is drywall on top of plaster and lathe, and hmm, it does seem […]
Oh my gosh, we are SO close! The electrician is here as I type, furiously demolishing the octopus of wires that carries from the basement through the kitchen and every other nook and cranny of our home. Did I tell you we are a getting […]
In the late winter of 2010, a young and naive couple stripped their basement of everything it had. It was a glorious time of destruction and promise. Alas, focus turned to spring and what could be had out of doors. The basement sat abandoned and […]
So I woke up at an ungodly hour this morning. What was it, 5:30? I laid in bed, pathetically tried to recapture some sleep, ultimately gave up. Still dark, I stumbled up and out, WOKE UP the cats to eat their shared can of chickens […]
Remember that awesome wheelchair elevator that I bragged about? Yeah… turns out, it wasn’t all that. I found a buyer, a wheelchair elevator dealer of sorts, who promised me $1000, sight unseen. He showed up with a helper and a trailer, really, a nice guy. […]
Sigh… I hate admitting that this summer has been a bust, house-progress-wise anyway. We’ve been bogged down with work work, you know, the kind you get paid for (supposedly). But the other day, I had a window, an overcast Saturday morning that I simply could. […]
While the kitties entertain themselves… {Orange chomps kitty grass first thing after breakfast} {Roosevelt, taunted by the squirrel who casually plops nuts on his head, does nothing} I have been toiling away at the neglected left side of the back yard. There we have a […]
While home improvements take a hiatus, our efforts are focused on maintaining the veggie garden. This is more work than I had imagined, but still rewarding and lovely and a pleasure. We are learning, no doubt about it, and what I thought would be a […]
The past few weeks have been a killer. Lots of work (not complaining) has left little time for anything else. All work and no play, that’s me! Not always, just lately. And when I work sun up to sun down for days in a row, […]
Oh the kitchen. Probably the most important room in the house and ours is destroyed! One thing I’ve learned about us during this process, we like to tear stuff down. It feels good. It feels successful. The catch though, what to do next! We are […]
