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Big August ’16 photo update on the house progress – Post 1 – site work

I am slightly behind because I unexpectedly ended up working last Sunday and didn’t have time to put up a post. I am gulping down coffee this morning because we had an absolute cracking large thunderstorm last night. Lots of thunderbolts – I am pretty sure that at least one fell nearby because the was […]

Prep for the site work & variable weather in Carlisle

Today (Sunday 7/31/16) is cool and rainy – steady light rain. A definite change of pace from a very dry June and July. The grass here at my parent’s place is definitely looking California at the moment – dry and burnt golden.

Yesterday was quite a bit warmer and humid, though not scorching hot. I […]

Happy 4th of July, 2016

Hello all and happy 4th of July!

I am enjoying a mellow holiday weekend in Carlisle. The weather is very nice (low eighties with a fair amount of wind so it is very pleasant outside). It has been dry this spring so it actually feels like August. I and my parent’s are still shaking off […]

House numbers, decisions, Foss Farm, Battlefield re-enactments and the Horn of Gondor

I am feeling quite a bit better this weekend than last weekend – though I still have a bit of a chest cough from having the flu at the beginning of the month. So forward !

I met Paul and his son Tim at the house yesterday and we took care a lot of final […]

Summer Solstice is right around the corner

Good morning – A couple of days till the summer solstice and summer is definitely here.

I was down and out last weekend due to the flu – so this is a bit of a catch up post, I didn’t feel very creative last week!

Things are moving into the home stretch at the house […]

House numbers – Mid Century style!

More mid century stuff – I needed a number for my house, so I ordered from a company I found as an advertiser in Atomic Ranch magazine that specializes in Mid Century modern styling. I ordered my number (337) in cut stainless steel like the photo below but with the background plate in Capri Blue […]

May 2016 – a busy month

May has been a really busy month for me with a lot of travel for both work and personal. I went to California twice, visited the BNY Mellon Innovation Center in Palo Alto which was super interesting and did general work stuff in the office. Then a few days later my parents and I traveled […]

Building a house is like building a sand dribble castle at the beach

About 10 years ago, I was heavily involved in building out our office space in San Francisco (about 96,000 square feet). This is in a large downtown office tower and it was bare concrete floors and completely empty floor to ceiling on 4.5 floors – so about 22K square feet per floor. Our architects were […]

Snow in April

#gallery-12 { margin: auto; } #gallery-12 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-12 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-12 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ A bit of early spring snow in Carlisle – April 3rd, 2016

It is snowing here in […]

Doings around Carlisle and house update

I was in California last week so a bit late on posting

Prior to going to San Francisco, my parent’s and I took a walk along Two Rod Road in advance of the incoming snow storm Sunday evening (still was a bit squishy). Two Rod Road heads off toward’s Concord, passing by Punkatasset hill before […]