I told my contractor last week that I was a “big front door person”. I’m not exactly sure what that translates to but I think it is the truth. Here’s how I break down my interest in front doors: I prefer to use them over side doors / back doors to enter a house I…
It’s been about a lifetime since I was in the garden. I think the last meaningful time was when I was prepping for the “hurricane” that never was. The worst part of that was I picked all of this fruit that largely ended up spoiling because I couldn’t eat it, sauce it, or give it away fast…
I’m losing track of time. I think we might technically have wrapped week 3? Yes, I’m going with that. Week 1 = Demo started on October 6 … but was supposed to start that Monday Week 2 = More demo Week 3 = Demo finished and leveling began In the last two weeks, we went…
Whenever summer leaves, I mourn the end of it hard. I’m not sure what exactly it is that I miss the most. It might be the extra hours of daylight, warmth, and limited expectations for productivity. I expect very little from myself during summer weekends. Take a walk. Take care of the tomatoes. Eat a…
I’m into this thing that I call “window moments”. It makes me feel a little ridiculous even talk about. The translation of “window moments” is essentially “beautiful, thoughtful windows”. You know it when you look at a house. It either just sings, or it looks like a house with windows. I spend a fair amount…
Prior to leaving the city, I don’t think I ever had so many “projects”. I’m honestly not sure what I did with all my time. I think I spent a little more time at the office and I worked out more. Like regularly, as opposed to the irregularly with which I get to yoga now.…
I still have a pretty big backlog of posts that could be written – but since we are officially one week into this project for real – as opposed to for fake…. let’s summarize what’s happened. After a series of false starts, the demo officially started last Wednesday! When I had been invisioning this day,…
As I write this, I’m sitting in bed typing and pretty much waiting for the sun to come up. I need it to come up so that I can go and look at the progress that happened on the house while I was at work yesterday. It’s a delicate balance of timing because (1) it’s…
That title could be applicable to so many things. But in this case, I’m referencing two. This blog… and this house. After a stressful six months, this project is actually starting. Truth be told we are actually on day four of demo as I write this. There are about a million posts that I could…
While it’s only been about a week since the last recap, I feel the need to document another update. The reason? The whole thing could be decimated by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Jose by Wednesday. WTF. The idea of the wind turning all my tomatoes into a homemade windblown tomato fight seems terrible, so I’m trying to…
