Not much to report on the home front lately. The new fence started to go up early last week: … and was finished before the weekend: The new room is now all wired. I lay on my back on the sawdusty concrete to take the following picture, and then ran off to dinner with work friends at a fancy restaurant, where my table companion discreetly started picking forgotten sawdust shavings off my back and hair. […]
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Building my studio
Down Came the Rain
A few nights before Maw left, we made a midnight (well, 8 p.m.) flashlight-raid on the basement and carved our initials hither and yon in patches of still-damp concrete. Mom inscribed her nickname along with Dad’s initials. I like having it there. But wait: what’s that damp spot encroaching? All that strategizing and engineering to circumvent any potential troubles with drainage … man, do I hate what happens to best-laid plans. Maybe Sumpy was slacking. […]
Read moreNeither Wind nor Hail
As the first big rainstorm of the season moved toward shore, Robert and Vidal got the addition weatherproof-ish. In a single day they plunked in four pristine new windows: Less than an hour after I took this photo, Robert and Vidal finished slapping a big honking sliding-glass door in that spot: The stucco guys arrived and nailed chicken wire over the black weatherproofing stuff. This addition is starting to look handsome and solid: Late in […]
Read moreCement Shoes
Today the guys poured concrete into the four holes where the Lincoln Logs had been, thus completing the foundation. Following is a picture of each hole, each at a different level of completion. Here’s Hole Number One — let’s call it Northeast Pit, shall we? — shortly after the concrete got dumped in. I know it’s really hard work, but seeing all that fresh goop made me want to jump in and schlomp around and […]
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