Lori’s idea for the garage was to give each motorcycle it’s own “stall” and I thougth that was a pretty clever idea so we went with it. There will eventually be dutch doors on each stall.
Just another progress shot of the garage. You might be getting sick of these, but at least there have been pictures this month. It really is nice to be able to get the bikes in and out so easily. I …
Here’s the latest on the garage. The posts from the old front porch are in and I’m glad we had them around to reuse. They’re really going to add to the architectural interest of the building.
The rear addition is starting to take shape. It sure is fun just walking around the shell, planning where all the workshop stuff is going to go. As we’ve dismantled the old garage a bit I’m finding that parts of …
Well we can finally get from the road to our garage without having to cross any dirt, or as the case has been lately, without crossing any mud. The concrete in the foreground is the porch for the motorcycle garage. …
Yesterday the framers showed up and started working on the two additions. Today they are continueing the framing, and when I left for work they had just started pouring the final bit of concrete. I don’t know how many total …
As you can see, the garage safely completed its journey west. In the first step towards becoming a two car garage, a hole was cut for the second bay. Since the existing door is kind of trashed, we’ll be getting …
With the slabs all poured it was time to move the garage forward. For my directorial debut, I’ve even included a short movie showing the first part of the move. Sorry my first movie is rather boring. It’s about as …
In addition to dragging home historic concrete, our yard is recently boasting a new foundation. Actually, this is only part of it, there is still one more pour for the back section that will become the workshop, and the aprons …
Ferndbridge was built in 1911, and at the time it was the largest concrete bridge in the world. Over the next 95 years, numerous drivers have found it a bit narrow to navigate and found themselves running into the concrete …
Since our existing garage is going to be moved during the construction of the new garage, I have to get everything out of there. So today I started packing stuff up. It’s going to be several days of drudgery to …
As promised, the crew from DCI Builders showed up this morning to start work on the new garage. Hard to believe that we’re finally proceeding. I think we started this project about 4 years ago. It sure will be nice …
Construction on my long delayed garage remodel is finally supposed to start this week. That meant I had to clean up the wood pile that had been building in the area in front of it. Took me the whole weekend, …
It has rained for a couple days so the creek went down enough that I was able to get into it again to do some more cleanup. This pile is just the smaller stuff that I could drag out. The …
Still on the iPod theme, today was spent at home working down the items on my honey-do list. One was to get some music in our parlor. Since it’s looking very nice in there now, we didn’t want to ruin …
I am really starting to hate the last two weeks of December, as it seems like the flooding just keeps getting worse every year. Our herb garden, our paths, everything that we worked so hard on this summer are now …
At our house the effect of all the rain was also visible. Fortunately, the wall we built earlier this year keeps the water out. Just when it comes within an inch of the top of the bricks it crests the …
Here is the reason that there haven’t been very many updates this month, I’ve been too busy working on getting our parlour back together. We’re hosting the Splinter Group’s November meeting on the 16th, and then Thanksgiving dinner with the …
In an attempt to deal with our mold problem that keeps cropping up in the bedroom, I decided to purchase a de-humidifier. So I went over to the brand new hardware store in Fortuna, found the isle that was tagged …
When we bought our house 5 years ago, there wasn’t a door for the parlor, but we did find a door in the garage that appeared to be the missing door. It looked like it had been used for paintball …
While we were in San Jose, Larry Martin finished the woodgraining in our parlour. If you’ve seen our photography studio you’ve seen Larry’s excellent work, even though you might not have realized it. He’s pretty good at making paint look …
Here’s the view of our house from the top of the steeple. I got to ride up to top today to take pictures. 140 feet is a long way up there. I could brave it long enough to take pictures, …
While some family members discourage our fine feathered friends from nesting on their house, we have accepted that it is easier to just go with it and clean up the mess the make. The only real downside is that on …
Ferndale has been battered by one storm after another for the past week, and Sunday was no different. It was too wet to work outside, and everything was closed due to Easter, which I remembered after trying to make a …
I now know what it feels like to get really clocked. Today I had two projects that I wanted to complete. First was replacing the headlight that we lost on the way back from San Jose. I guess complaining about …
Philip and Diane came back to finish the wallpaper on the ceiling and also put up our Iris frieze. It’s looking so good in that room, we’re excited to get the rest of it done now. Next project in there …
After taking breaks for our vacation, and then being stuck at the fair for two weekends, I finally had a chance to finish the brick walkway in our front yard. Now that it is done we can do the final …
Here’s the completed driveway. Ok, so it’s not the most beautiful home improvement project we’ve done, but it is very practical. No more sliding in the mud during the winter months.
While we were gone Del Biaggio started work on phase two of our driveway. Today they poured the concrete for the driveway and the parking area. The next phase will be the new foundation for the garage, and phase four …
What I am working on is building the fence and arbor in the front yard. I know it doesn’t look like much now, and at the rate I’m making progress on it, it might be awhile before it really looks …
With all the work going on outside, I finally admitted that I wasn’t making progress on the inside, so we hired a friend to put up our Bradbury wallpaper. I didn’t order quite enough of one pattern, so he couldn’t …
