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The rest of the week ending 8/24/12
I missed taking photos on Tuesday and Wednesday--was sleeping before working overnight on Tuesday, and afterwards on Wednesday (and was too tired to care even after getting up in the afternoon!). While I was off being re-certified in Big People Resuscitation (otherwise known as BLS), the framers worked on the roof. Because the roofline of the ( Read more... ) -
Pictures from Monday 8/20/12
Because of considerations like sleeping before and after work, the picture flow is a bit behind. Much more progress has been made as of today, I just haven't been awake (or energetic enough) during the day to take photos! Suffice it to say that I am in the small second floor bedroom, and the workers are hammering away on the other side of the ( Read more... ) -
Works-in-Progress Wrestling and other activities
Those of you not "into" Ravelry (termed a "radical knitting collective" by a British tabloid--we're NOT!)won't understand the subject. As a fun thing to do, some of the members of Ravelry stage a parallel event during the Olympics, which USED to be called "Ravelympics," until the USOC intervened and said we were denigrating the Olympics and ( Read more... ) -
In Between Time
There hasn't been much happening since the foundation was poured. DH erected a temporary fence stile when he was working out back on Saturday, and the dog was seen jumping over it at least once. Walking all the way to the end to get around gets old after a while.
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Today's Update
Kate (gravitytester) commented on our "solid" soil, and I laughed. Before this was a housing development, it was part of the Spaulding, later Roberts, family farm, and our yard was a cow pasture. Down towards the brook, the soil does get heavier and holds more moisture, but up by the house, there are several feet of very sandy soil. And this is ( Read more... ) -
Concrete progress...
As a longtime listener and admirer of "Car Talk," I can never resist a good pun. Or a bad one ( Read more... ) -
About The Plan
We started discussing kitchen renovations sometime during the winter of 2011, when ice dams caused some serious leaking into the family room (water was dripping down from the ceiling fan/light in the center of the room): as in, "we have to get a repair estimate for insurance, but let's just roll the repair into renovating the kitchen." At some ( Read more... )
