More Floors
Another long floor day. I will be so glad when the floors are done. I was thinking yesterday that they …
Category Archives: Recovery from Losing Home to Wildfire
Sander Wrangling
I am still on my knees doing floors. Last night I hit the wall. It was both literally and figuratively.I …
Gathering Confidence
Today the last of the construction equipment departed and the last of the plumbing was installed. We still have things …
Floors, Day 3, a Very Good Day
After the heart-stopping floor actions of the past two days everything floor fell into place today. The upstairs of the …
The Wind Book-ends Our Lives
I meant to take a photo so that we could memorialize pulling up the paper on the floors at the …
Flying Home
We left Houston to fly home with a clear heart today. Mom is doing very well. It is hard to …
On the Meaning of the Post-fire Restocking My Herbs and Spices
One of the first things we got after the fire was a small order of spices from Penzeys Spices. It …
Our Intertestimental Era
We each had some clothes when we left our home on that fateful afternoon of June 28, 2012. When we …
Excavating Our New Life
Today moving to the end of this post-wildfire life reconstruction project was brought home. The excavator showed up and started …
I Came and There Are Rainbows
When we decided to stop building our house that was burned, along with 65 others, in the Charlotte Mink Creek …
Building One Home 