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Good morning all – It is a fine Sunday morning here in Carlisle and I have a nice cup of coffee in hand while I surf the internet and listen to music from Firephly – aka my sister-in-law Meghan. I have done a couple of brag posts about my other sister-in-law Tenley and my Mom – ...
It is rather warm today (low 40’s) and raining rather hard. This is a good thing since it is erasing the ice that has been coating our driveway since Christmas. Long term, I would like to see snow so that we can go Nordic skiing – but getting rid of the pond ice on the ...
Good morning all. I was down and out for several days with a cold, starting with Christmas. We got a snow/ice storm with some freezing rain as a follow on and it got sufficiently heavy that when I felt better and was able to go to work on 12/30, I couldn’t break through the ice ...
I have been on the road for the last three weeks and didn’t really have the time or energy to make an update – so this one will be a bit on the rambling side. I was able to get a cheap American Airlines ticket – so I was able to go from Boston, to ...
This past week has been very mild in Carlisle, though it rained most of the day on Saturday. Today my dad and I took care of some stuff that needed doing We cleaned out the wood shed in preparation for fixing the roof Cleaned out all the leaves in the Sea Pearl (my parent’s whale ...
A little bragging here – my Mom was invited to show and sell her quilting at the local art co-operative in the center of Carlisle – the Carlisle Artisans Their shop is very small but the stuff they have is great. They saw her work during the Old Home Day art show on the town ...
Please see the prior post here for the answer to the question – Why build a mid century modern house in the early 21st century At this point in my process, I had the land, the permits (thanks to the Fields hard work prior to selling the land to me!), and a builder picked out. ...
Very short post this week Roofing materials are onsite – Everlast metal – and are going up. The siding is going up too and the colors, layout and species of wood are really starting to pop. Plus some random, Cow, Sheep and Hawk photos ...
Fall has started to arrive in Carlisle and it is a misty Saturday here. Things are continuing to move apace at the job site. As you can see below in the pictures, things have moved forward quite quickly during the week, with lots of progress on the electrical, sprinkler system, fireplace and the cedar siding ...
This is a test post that hopefully will be swept up in the 4:00am automatic sweep for posts in the last 24 hours fingers crossed! ...