a bright spot
The painters are back. Again. It appears to me that the building will have been painted in its entirety a total of three times, as it keeps getting scuffed, scraped and dusted with graffiti. The flashing looks good, though.
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chillsville
As you participate in the construction process, you begin to understand how many things you can’t accomplish until you’ve accomplished something else first. It’s really exciting to see the stuff happen that can happen concurrently. Some days last month were positively a beehive of activity. Now that most things are done, you being to discover […]
travertine, interrupted.
We’re only part way through, here- neither is it cleaned, nor is it grouted, but it does look pretty sharp. Here’s an aloe-y mosaic around the top of the tile wainscoting in the loo. This one brought to you by Robin Riley. Next week’s bathroom mosaic will be brought to you by Kathy Spain.
my minor obsession with lanterns
I worry that I fall into these traps: the obsession with the many holes of Feast, for example, or the whole Paul Revere lantern thing. I fear this is getting pretty boring, but I can’t help myself. How can you look at our new lanterns and not think about the midnight ride of Paul Revere? […]
a sink in a blink
Yesterday I scattered sinks around Feast like a sink elf. Or a sink gnome. Or like the Johnny Appleseed of plumbing. Today I arrived to discover them mounted to the wall wherever I left them, as if a sink gnome had come and installed them. Or an elf. You get the picture.
cool as a cucumber
Maybe the refrigeration guy can’t see the new curbs, but it looks like the new wine room ought to maintain a comfy 57 to 60 degrees, just like that cellar in France that your bottle of wine came from. Here’s the unit that makes it all happen.
extroodley
The concrete’s coming so fast and furiously that a couple of extruded curbs hardly seems worth noting. In fact, today, the guy installing the refrigeration unit in the new wine room managed not to note the new curbs at all. The good news: he was not stuck; the bad: I think his employer might be […]
light in august
Apart from being one of my favorite books of all time, yesterday, we had just that: Light. In August. On August 31st, some uncomfortably warm people from Tucson Electric Power powered us up, as it were, and while there isn’t much to shine upon yet, it makes the beholding a whole lot easier.
spelling bea
It’s not a quality I’m particularly proud of, or I should say, a quality of which I’m particularly proud, but I can be a bit of a nitpicker on the spelling front. So when I was admiring this box of wires, I noticed and was compelled to make a snarky comment about the wire labeled, […]
power up
Here’s where that transformer’s going to work its magic.