Uncovered!

This big news here is that the floors have been uncovered!  It’s really beginning to feel like a place to live instead of a construction project.

This seems a silly photo but there’s a lot behind it. It took us about four months and pressure from our city who holds the franchise agreement, our state and the FCC to get Comcast to install internet for us. 

Bob recommending a height for the bar that holds the handheld shower in the master.

Asphalt!

Boots w/ plywood attached to them to stomp down the edge.

The apartment we’ve lived in for the past several weeks since selling our house.

Jersey girl Alie says there’s only one way to know if the pasta is ready.

Olive promising treats. Löyly is the combination of heat, steam and humidity produced by a sauna stove so a good beverage for us.

A bit of heartache.  Balanced on top is one of the first ‘large’ dimmer systems I made. Eighteen 2.4kw and six 6kw dimmers were in that rack. It lit Little River Band, Kansas, Phil Keaggy, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, John Prine, Randy Stonehill, John McLoughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Alabama, Hotel, Crimson Tide and even that perennial favorite Peaches & Herb.  

Dan, Sam and Aaron finishing up the kitchen and fireplace on the porch.

Plants! Amazing what a little bit of green does.

Vent covers ready to be painted.

Hooks in the guest bath.

A bit of touch up painting in the LL bathroom.

Floor vents ready for the uncovering.

Checking to see if Falu Red on the studio will look OK. If you look close you’ll see hundreds (thousands actually) of little shinny things all over. 

Here’s a close up. The hatch is really quite amazing. Typically this is about a two day affair but this year it was more like a week.

My sweetie and I had lunch on the porch for the first time while we were waiting on Marita and Co.

Uncovered!  What an amazing transformative difference this made.

There were a few of these in the lower level where we had to use engineered instead of solid wood. Perry is planning to replace them soon.

Shawn’s World.

We had to remove more trees than I thought. I’ll be very glad when we get some new ones and they grow a little bit.

One of our favorite restaurants that we frequently ride out bicycles to. The old much smaller outdoor seating filled up fast so for us there’s one big benefit to Covid – AMPLE OUTDOOR SEATING!  This is a quite enjoyable place to eat and many in the area are hoping that they keep it.