Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2010
No, you say. Well I didn’t think so either until they spread it around and smoothed it out a bit. A little judicious sweeping and the sidwalk is looking like it belongs here. Maybe I’ll plant some flowers between the sidwalks and the flowerbed wall. I have a lot of weeds to remove first. See, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2010
Dan noticed a new flower blooming in the rocks down the hill from our house. This plant was first collected on the Lewis & Clark expedition, and they tried to eat it. I think they tried to eat everything they came across, actually. They said it was too bitter, and called it Bitterroot. When the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2010
The walls, ceiling, window sills and trim around the outside of the windows and doors – it’s all done. We need to do some cleaning, a bit of sanding and then more cleaning, before varnishing. That’s our plan for the weekend. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we’ll go to town and get the paint supplies […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2010
If anything went smoothly, I think I’d faint. Fortunately for me, there’s not much risk of that happening anytime in the near future. But, at last the French door between the living room and sun room has been installed. It actually shuts, too, which is quite exciting in the overall scheme of things. We have […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2010
Today we worked on the initial phase of the flooring installation, that being cleaning the tiles and putting a thin coat of the floor sealer on them. This will protect them from fingerprints, and keep the thinset cement which glues to them to the floor from sticking to them. I also got a chance to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2010
Another week winds to a close and our project is starting to actually look like something is happening. This weekend we have three whole days by ourselves and I’m hoping that we can put up the pine boards on three out of four of the interior walls, and the ceiling. The sliding glass door needs […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2010
First thing this morning, we sorted out the problem of differing heights of the floor between our existing living room and the sun room addition to the house. It was a somewhat lengthy process but finally everybody understands what we want, and we all decided how to get there from here. Once that was agreed […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010
Yeah…. That will teach me to mock Mother Nature. Or, maybe not. I seem to be a slow learner. It was a good thing we had covered up the construction materials which were delivered yesterday. They would have been very soaked. This morning Dan found a poor frozen hummingbird laying on the sidewalk. This sort […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2010
We woke up on Cinco de Mayo to a fat inch of snow covering everything. This last week we finally saw temperatures more in the normal range for this time of year, and lots of flowers are starting to bloom on the hillsides. The hummingbirds are back in full force, going through three feeders of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2010
Actually they’ve been back since the 16th of April, when a lone Calliope male flew up to the front of the house and thoroughly checked out the three spots where the feeders hung last year. I flew off the couch and into the kitchen where I quickly made up a batch of sugar water. But […]