March 11, 2007

key-key goes back outside

The "bring the outside cat inside experiment" has failed miserably, unless having everything that one owns peed on by a cat is considered a success. Key-key is an outside cat again.

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December 28, 2006

patching holes in the plaster

We haven't taken on any large jobs over the holiday break, just patching a few of the remaining holes (that have been around long enough that we've grown used to seeing them and tend to forget that they are there.)

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December 24, 2006

happy holidays

Our first year we only had 5 trees; this year we have 7 (but the neighborhood Santa hasn't made an appearance).

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November 24, 2006

small details

Putting things back together, almost in passing, and the downstairs becomes more and more of a living space.

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November 17, 2006

refinished floors

In what was the last hurdle to actually being able to live downstairs, the floors downstairs have been de-painted, unsplintered, sanded, and refinished. And they are bee-yoo-tee-full!

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November 13, 2006

towards getting the floors refinished

Just over three years after getting the upstairs floors refinished, we've preparing to get the downstairs done. To be ready, we've had to patch the holes where the ductwork used to run

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key-key comes inside

We've decide to pull inside one of the feral cats that we've been taking care of since soon after we moved in.

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July 31, 2006

actually it was a raccoon

The dog barked suspiciously. Going downstairs to investigate revealed a distinctly raccoon ass disappearing up into part of the unfinished wall...

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July 26, 2006

a grubby hallway is reborn

Like a grittier version of one of those makeover shows, we've been spending time beautifying some of the spaces in the house that we won't be able to really get to for a while.

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July 21, 2006

either an opossum or a small monkey has been in our house

It is sort of like that joke that goes, "how do you know when an elephant has been in your refrigerator?"

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July 2, 2006

this is a safety cover

We had to finish a few details left behind from our barter with the elctricians; now we just need to arrange for and pass an inspection...

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June 16, 2006

during which a marsupial enters the house

Upon returning home from dinner we found a freakin' opossum in the upstairs hallway tonight.

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