September 2005 - Posts
We finally did it: the front door is hung! (before, after) It took all of our working hours yesterday, which had a hard stop at 3pm since we were headed to Trissa's Dad's birthday party (Happy Birthday, Chooch!). The door is in and it locks; we still
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The first thing I do when I get to work in the morning is check my calendar for the day. Recently with my new role I've been booked into a lot more meetings - which isn't bad, but certainly isn't great either. Today I am booked solid from 8 until 5 -
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Okay- we're still quite aways off, but I can now picture what the kitchen will look like when we're done with this project. (Or at least I now have a better picture in my mind!) After moving the sink and dishwasher and framing in the new nook window,
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Nick was pretty close to his estimate. The sink was moved and reinstalled by 1:00. It would have been by 12:00 if someone hadn't stole our empty cart at Home Depot- actually it wasn't empty as it had our shopping list in it. So we had to recreate the
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Nick's reply, "It will be done by noon." We picked up the plumbing tools and fittings so we can move the sink and dishwasher to their new location. We have friends coming over tonight for dinner and cards, so I was just a bit concerned that we'd be without
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Has anyone bought a hammer recently? Did you research which one to buy? I’m a good enough hammerer that I can consistently hit the nail – and hard. If I’m lucky I can drive a spike in 3 swings. But much of the time I must hit the nail off-center or something,
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We're close to getting back on track and feel like we are making a little progress. We are slowly making progress on the framing for the first floor and we will be getting the necessary tools for plumbing later this week. The varnishing of doors continues
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Today we have a special Guest Post from my sister, Jesse. She and her family live in Wisconsin where, among other things, they are building a treehouse in the backyard. SO YOU WANT TO BUILD A TREEHOUSE I wanted a tree house when I was a little girl. Okay,
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Today I awoke late and didn't feel great. Too much wine last night, perhaps. Once I had a caraffe of coffee I was feeling better, but a bit confused about what project to undertake. After a while of staring at our list of projects and our messy jobsite,
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I mentioned last week that I'd been scheming to get stop-motion video working using our ProjectCam. Here's the first attempt - it's me working on the range-hood this morning. The movie is a little blury because I reduced the filesize for download, but
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I'm up early today -- Saturday, even for me. I awoke at 5 to sounds of running water and a terrible groaning sound. Immediately I thought "the boiler!" The running water sound I was hearing seemed behind my head, which could easily be the manifold for
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Trissa and I need to get back on track here. It’s been a couple of weeks now since we had a full productive weekend working on the house. We took most of this last Labor Day weekend to spend time out of the city with Trissa’s brother and sister-in-law
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It's been a few days since we've posted, and longer than that since we've posted any pictures! Last weekend was Huge, but this week has been busy with Trissa headed back to work (school teacher, you know) and me busy with my job. This weekend we're planning
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