Not much to report

Holidays, hunting season, lack of preparation… all these things have led to a rather slow week or so around the house.  The stoners have been busy, but other than that we’ve seen no one.  The framers ran out of siding so that’s going nowhere fast either.
Guy’s been busy doing all kinds of stuff so we’re [...]

Exterior pictures

I finally got up to the house with enough daylight to take some exterior pictures, so here they are. Notice on the garage picture the mounting bracket for the sconce on the left side? Notice a lack of a matching bracket on the right side? Yeah, we noticed it too, but apparently [...]

Trepidity

Nice word, huh?
Tomorrow is the day Guy meets with Levi, again, to discuss some issues at the house.  The plumbers will be there too and they get to re-do some of their work, and do some things they should have done but didn’t.  Guy is rightfully a little nervous about it (nervous?  No, apprehensive, perhaps) [...]

Kitchen cabinets

So, yesterday I took yet another half day off work and traveled the two plus hours out to Amish country to meet with the cabinet guys. The first time I met with them was August and it was about 95 degrees and absolutely miserable since they live without air conditioning. This time it [...]

Temper

No, not anger, temper. For 99% of you this post will mean nothing and you can just skip right over it. For anyone who does any baking or candy making, feel free to read on.
Chocolate. It’s just lovely. It makes a lot of people very happy. It comes in multitudes [...]

Another first

Well, for me at least. Guy and I drove up to the house yesterday during a very heavy snowfall. Traffic was slow, roads were bad and there were cars in ditches all over the place, but we needed to get up there and get stuff done, so out we went.
Since we’re anticipating drywall [...]

Congratulations Jeff!

I assume by now the cat is out of the bag and Jeff knows about his surprise retirement party, so now we can say something.
Congratulations Jeff!!  For those who don’t know, Jeff is Guy’s brother and Jeff retired recently from a successful career in the Navy.  His wife, Dawn, planned a big retirement party for [...]

Siding, steps

Guy got to the house around noon today to find yet another frenzy of activity.  I assume Levi put a call into the framers asking them what the hell was taking them so long getting started with the siding.  So today they showed up and started the siding.  A different crew of stoners showed up [...]

Work happens

So the dreary gray skies decided to part temporarily today so Guy and I decided to ditch work and go up to the house to work on the roof that still needs to be completed.
When I showed up, I heard hammering.  Guy said “be prepared” (or something similar) which of course struck fear into my [...]

Mud!

I figured that was an appropriate follow up title.  It pretty much sums everything up.
Nothing happened last week other than the electricians making a few changes/corrections, and I have no idea if anything will be happening this week because there’s so much mud I doubt if anyone can drive a truck back there.
We’d like to [...]