by CJ | Oct 29, 2017 | Journal
He stands about 7 feet tall, is black and red, glows in the dark, flaps his wings and breathes fire. He will reside in our basement until his next emergence. We fell in love with him, and, well, he’s ours. We can’t let him out when it’s raining or...
by CJ | Oct 29, 2017 | Journal
My addy is in the usual category up top. Write me a “hello, I’m not a robot!’ if you’re waiting forever for that confirmation letter. The letter from you must precede it. Today I blitzed some 28 plus spammer-origin applicants that popped up...
by CJ | Oct 28, 2017 | Journal
The lights. The floor. We finished Friday. The baseboards are yet to come, but we don’t count those: that’s wall, and Scott will do the baseboards. We now have a complete floor. Yay us. Ceiling painting, dining area painting, almost done, pantry interiors,...
by CJ | Oct 26, 2017 | Journal
….countertop….but it’s coming. November 13th. It’s a felicitous day. Can’t wait. I can’t believe this stupid mouse ate the whole post. But it did. It’s cheap, it ‘jumps’ and sometimes obliterates text. Its sole...
by CJ | Oct 19, 2017 | Journal
This is after pulling the cabinets and deciding to put an equipment closet midway to section off the dining area. The walls are now coral in the direction of view, white trim, and will have a grey slate flooring. Cabinets are quiet brown, fittings are ruddy copper,...
by CJ | Oct 17, 2017 | Journal
A little warier than last year. I am doing 3 things, first of all having a pond ‘turnover’ device, a little heated pump that will keep circulating a stream of water up to outgas CO2 buildup and then to return to the depths…and a regulation...
by CJ | Oct 13, 2017 | Journal
It’s a thing of steam-punked beauty. Coppery. We’re not installing it yet. I can get by with what I have. The ceiling with the lights is nearly finished, and we’ve found a way to move some wiring onto other breakers so that I won’t have the...
by CJ | Oct 12, 2017 | Journal
We have spent 3 days fixing a wiring problem in our attic, which is one of those low-profile roofs, requiring a body to be jockey-sized. Or smaller. Today—noonish—we got the sucker. When wiring has to connect across an old ‘addition’ boundary,...
by CJ | Oct 11, 2017 | Journal
He views with felinest dissspleasure the removal of the cabinetsss and the ffflloorrr… His food is in another room, but if you go in there in the small hours of the night, you will find him parked in the center walkway, to be sure nothing else leaves and the...
by CJ | Oct 10, 2017 | Journal
Get another can of salmon paint from Benjamin Moore, a can of Vintage Apricot from Ace, get mouse eliminator for the garage (they’re back!) and food for stirfry, plus pick up the T-molding for the thresholds from United Flooring. I head for the grocery, and am...
by CJ | Oct 9, 2017 | Journal
As in—shades of adobe. Which (a light version) is what the kitchen is. After looking through every paint chip in Spokane, we settled on a color from Benjamin Moore, which went perfectly with the cabinets we are not now getting. By sheer luck and the fact we had...
