As a first step in getting ready for a new foundation, Robert & Vidal started digging. Miraculously, I managed not to break another foot as I wandered around back there. Felicia (the dog I was fostering) supervised, and occasionally helped out by moving work gloves, tools and small lumber bits to new places. I guess you don’t truly understand how big a slope is until you dig it up and move it.
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Building my studio
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
As a first step, Robert and Vidal got to demolish stuff. When they tore off part of the siding, they exposed the outline of the original 1913 exterior stairs, which was cool: I guess it’s good that I didn’t know until now that for the past eight years I’ve been practicing my Irish dance steps on unbraced plywood. Here’s Robert fixing that:
Read moreIn the Beginning
Thirty-five years ago someone added a room to the back of my house. See it there on the right? Now, I�?m sure these were very nice people and otherwise bright, but what possessed them, here in the heart of earthquake country, to stick that sucker way up in the air on stilts? If the concept was questionable, the execution was downright scary. It looks like something I might have built. After a bottle or two […]
Read moreMy New Room: An Introduction
Excitement! Magic! Drama! The transformation of the mundane into something slightly less uninteresting! You’ll find all this — and more — here in my bloggery experiment. My first project is an annotated photo-log of the birth of the addition beneath my bedroom. Read this unforgettable, heartwarming story, in reverse-chronological order, of course.
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