As a first step, Robert and Vidal got to demolish stuff. When they tore off part of the siding, they exposed the outline of the original 1913 exterior stairs, which was cool: I guess it’s good that I didn’t know until now that for the past eight years I’ve been practicing my Irish dance steps on unbraced plywood. Here’s Robert fixing that:
Read moreDay: November 4, 2005
In the Beginning
Thirty-five years ago someone added a room to the back of my house. See it there on the right? Now, I�?m sure these were very nice people and otherwise bright, but what possessed them, here in the heart of earthquake country, to stick that sucker way up in the air on stilts? If the concept was questionable, the execution was downright scary. It looks like something I might have built. After a bottle or two […]
Read moreMy Very First Blog Entry
I’m still confused about why people do blogs. Unless I were famous, or otherwise sought-after as a purveyor of wisdom pearls, I can’t think of a single reason someone would stop by here. Well, there’s one. As I told Richard, if I had friends — a big “if” — I can imagine them coming here to see what I’m up to. The one thing blogs do well is make it easy to present information chronologically. […]
Read moreMy New Room: An Introduction
Excitement! Magic! Drama! The transformation of the mundane into something slightly less uninteresting! You’ll find all this — and more — here in my bloggery experiment. My first project is an annotated photo-log of the birth of the addition beneath my bedroom. Read this unforgettable, heartwarming story, in reverse-chronological order, of course.
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