Chrissy and I couldn't get to our daily south mountain hike until evening yesterday so we strapped on our headlamps and started up the slopes in chilly darkness. While we climbed I summed up the current status of our project. We are in the middle of the plumbing project from hell, illustrated with a 30 foot trench [...]

The painters are ahead of schedule. Hooray. They have painted the inside ceilings, exposed air ducts and now that things have dried up outside are tackling the roof and areas of the building that aren't waiting to be reconstructed. Commonweath Electric company sent a crew in today to rough out the locations of lights and [...]

My crack team of architects and engineers have submitted plans to Tempe (almost a month late) and even more impressively delivered a set to me! For a while now we have had a permit for demolition but soon we can actually start building. But only after demolishing more than we expected however. Last week we [...]