All Locked Up
Today the last of our door hardware arrived. We now have levers and locks for every door. In the February …
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Counter Intuitive
A couple of months ago one of the sales people where we get building materials was helping me figure out …
Throwing in the Towel, Bathtubs of 2014
In 2013 as I chronicled the rebuilding of our house after it burned in a wildfire, I wrote in my …
Our Clay-Mud Driveway
We can get up our driveway almost to the house. The 10 inch mud ruts are smoothed out by the …
Ready to Finish Cabinets
The past three days have been consumed by painting and staining cabinets. I had no idea there were so many …
Lying in the Bottom of the Boxes
At the house yesterday and today we got the “wet area flooring” meaning we now have plank vinyl in our …
More Valuable Than it Costs
Today we have counter tops and floors. The counter tops are made from the pine flooring we have had for …
Unease, Disquiet, and Discontinuity
Over the past 21 months since we lost our house to the wildfire that took most of our neighborhood where …
We Have Our Very Own Slough
It is mud season. We had a driveway last fall. We have no driveway now. We have, what the people …
Remembering to Think of Things We Don’t Know to Think About
One of the truly difficult things in the world is to remember to think about what you don’t know to …
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