I suspect the subject of our bathroom is a bit boring to you readers by now, but just to complete the thought…here is the process (a very short, digested version I might add…). It fascinates me to watch a room be ripped apart (so naturally I think it fascinates YOU…?) and then come together so […]
Category: Modern Life
“High” Summer
The fourth of July is really the beginning of the mid summer celebration of flowers and good warm weather and just being outside all the time. Our habit is to be at the beach on the fourth and the last few years Z & A and friends Amy and Ian have joined us…for reading, good […]
“Theatrical Heartscape” and the Friends of the Mural
In 1983 painter and teacher Jim Mattingly submitted a proposal to paint a mural in downtown Salem. The mural was to grace the rear wall of the Elsinore Theater, then a movie theater, but with a long history of vaudeville before the movies. Mattingly’s proposal was chosen and in the summer of 1984 he went […]
VACATION!!!
We took a little drive last week with Z & A back to Wallace, Idaho, for a bit of the “HULL back story” . Z made the route which we did ALL on non-freeway roads and we made a big, interesting circle. Basically other people’s vacations are pretty boring, I know, but here are just […]
Wet Collodion Process and Farm lunch…
That’s a mix of activities, like any good Wednesday can provide…but first, anybody know what’s happening to the McGilchrist Building? we were so happy to see the ugly stuff coming off an revealing the original graceful proportions or the windows…here’s hoping they are heading in the right direction! Alisa breezed into town yesterday from Santa […]
TWTWTW
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
Guessing Time…
Here’s a few things I’ve been thinking about lately…want to take a guess???
The Week in Review …
(leaving out all politics…). After a stormy beach weekend we returned Monday to the chaos of home renovation…the week brought a new floor, paint, and the shower tile going in…here are the visuals: Friday I took a break and headed over to pick up Jon and Irene and head out for lunch to the MIG […]
Avoiding Chaos/Beach Weekend…
The bathroom construction at Court Street began heating up as the week drew to a close. After the first coat of concrete in the construction of the “pan” on the shower floor, came a rubber liner, with a bucket of water in it. This had to sit for 24 hours and then be inspected…all of […]
Mid-Transformation News
Well things are evolving over here…always a little more slowly than one imagines…but evolving nonetheless… Scott was here to do some wood stuff Vince came today to get the shower floor ready for tile… the big question now is paint color…??? MEANWHILE…outside we’re getting a new deck surface as the old deck was in […]
On The Way 