Huge pieces of lumber falling randomly and dangerously from the sky. Finally some fun! Lots of activity today as we tore away the front of the building, our plumber readied our kitchen ditch for inspection, our contractor readied the framing crew for work next week, the water treatment company came in for testing, our upholstery [...]

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 [...]