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Opening Up The Living Room

Our living room is opened up now.

The new 12″ bearing beam can be seen at the top of the picture below.

Home Re-Modeling Phase 1

We have been planning our home re-modeling for the past couple years. This remodeling breaks down into two major projects.  One major project is to built an attached garage with a mud room, pantry, laundry and 1/2 bath connecting it to our house.  This past summer we began contracted to have our basement drainage re-done, [...]

Our Weekend

Thursday night Kathryn went to play volleyball and  Eric and I started a marathon Monopoly game.  We set up on the dining room table which was more “cat proof” than other locations in the house.  We played about 30 minutes, recorded our locations, stored our holdings and set it aside until Friday night when we [...]

Our House

“Our house, is a very, very fine house.”  CSNY

The picture of our house was taken last evening looking from the pond just south towards our yard and house.

Lawns

A lot of people have complained about the weather this summer: cool, with frequent light showers and thunderstorms.  However, for someone starting lawns in July it has worked out well.  The lawn around the house has recovered nicely and will likely be trimmed the next time we mow.

We moved our peonies along the fence between [...]

Foundation Work

Our new foundation wall was completed.  Here is what the new north wall looks like from the inside.  The plan is to install shelving units where the two lights are shown.

Here is the view from the outside.  In addition to new blocks on the north wall the west wall was parged and new drainage was [...]

Constructing the North Wall

The north wall is removed and tarped off.  We got a little wind and rain on Monday night.  The sound of the tarps flapping in the breeze was reminiscent of camping.

The concrete blocks and sand are piled up outside for the construction.

Our foundation plants have taken a beating in this process and may not recover.  [...]

Computer Rack

Skip and Bob helped me move Kathryn’s desk downstairs where I set it up in the computer room.  I moved my computer rack, re-adjusted the height of the shelves and set up my old Dell computer running Ubuntu.

Top: Router & N AS
Photo printer and scanner
Dell Monitor for Ubuntu machine and Network printer
Dell running Vista (yuck) [...]

Foundation and Fill Work

For the past year or two Kathryn and I have been going through the anguish of long term planning.  Given Eric and semi-stable jobs we decided to plan on being in the area for the next 12 years.  Specifically we decided we like where we live; the specific location and land despite winters and snow.  [...]