Music and Cats

We were happy to see almost all of our old kitchen go. The shoddy cabinets, the disfunctional appliances, the dropped ceiling; good riddance to every bit of that. One of the last steps in the demolition was removing the flooring. The old, brick-patterned sheet vinyl was long past being “no-wax;” it had become unwaxable. (We […]

With temperatures forecast to be in the 90’s here today and Saturday, I predict that there will be three cats impersonating fur rugs around our house this weekend. Method actor Sasha works on getting in character: Does the fur rug see the world upside down? What is the fur rug’s motivation?
Upside down, right side […]

See those letters on the plywood? A…ESS? The letters you can’t see behind the new black ABS drain line are CC. What does that spell? ACCESS. ACCESS! ACCESS!!!
That’s the plywood panel that provides access to the crawl space under our soon-to-be breakfast nook… or did until Monday, when the plumber came to make connections for […]

I would make a lousy archeologist. When I spotted the glint of bottle glass in the wall cavity between two windows in our house, did I photograph it in situ? No, I did not. Instead, I picked it up, took it right into the bathroom (because we no longer have a kitchen sink!) and […]

If you open up the walls of any house, you are likely to find surprises. While we tend to think of buildings as being static, the truth is that the walls surrounding us change with the passage of time. Heat, cold, moisture, wind, animals and plants all make their marks on the materials in a […]