Ba De Ya

This concludes the brick mould installation on the second storey windows. The lady is not as good on the scaffold as the man, not at all.

Tomorrow we'll rent another scaffold to run planks across the peak of the first story and finally install the eastside soffits.

I am so sick of looking at OSB and tar paper.

Don't tell anyone but we painted the inside of the window frame to match the stained fir trim. Can you tell?

Monsieur wants to leave the south window frame red, that is his whimsy. Uh, don't forget to pry those twobefours off the siding!

Check out the peephole, good for security and unexpected optical fun.

In the morning, the sun shines through it and makes a fun halo on the wall.

If you click on the photo you'll see why we didn't put a glass door here to take advantage of the light. Not much of a view, but the sun is nice in the spring and fall. Now I want to lard the door with peepholes!

Is this thing even ON?

Are you still there?
We were so smitten with our new digs and so overwhelmed by the enormity of everything STILL UNDONE, that we took the needle off the record to contemplate our new surroundings, grey hair and empty pockets. Apologies to our devoted readership, but now that it's just typical home finishing stuff to be done, we don't feel very newsworthy in our progress here. If nothing else, we promise more frequent dog photos.

This, a pallet upon which Honda ATVs are delivered to dealerships


begat this, a stair rail conceived of and realized by our neighbor Jim. Special care was taken, as per code requirement, to insure that no baby's head shall pass through these rails! The short segment in the middle is removable in case we have to bring something unwieldy upstairs.


As you can see the glass blocks


begat new dimensions in illumination fun!

These were from salvage of course. If you find clear ones, snap 'em up, they don't make 'em anymore.


As has been the case with process/product monopoly 'solutions' to make life 'easier' through systemization, we have experienced a tremendous amount of agita with the Pittsburgh Owen Corning Glass Block Installation Gospel. Where are the instructions that tell you how to make it look old fashioned without plastic doo hickeys?

New, second story meditations await, a prelude to the wild and wacky world of finding someone to do stucco. Still.