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Getting ready for lighting decisions

Quick post – to be elaborated on later – but lighting decisions are in-flight.  This post is work in progress – kind of a in-flight storage of stuff Lighting items to review and complete (a) Hallway Sconces 1x entry hall 1x back hall (b) Under Cabinet Kitchen lighting 2x LED light bar. 29″ max length ...

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Happy MLK Day! A three day weekend leads to: Workshop design thoughts

Woke up this morning (Monday, Martin Luther King day – which is a stock exchange holiday, so one of my few official 3 day weekends) and we had a surprise overnight snow storm.  The forecasts didn’t seem to predict this and when I went to bed last night at 10pm, there was no precipitation.  Not ...

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San Francisco travel dates – February 2016

EDIT 1/20/2016 – dates moved again Where You’re Going Boston MA (BOS) to San Francisco CA (SFO) Date:16Feb2016 Flight:VX353 Depart:04:30PM Arrive:08:00PM Stops:0 San Francisco CA (SFO) to Boston MA (BOS) Date:27Feb2016 Flight:VX350 Depart:07:00AM Arrive:03:25PM Stops:0 ...

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And yet more bragging about a relative

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 – ...

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Rainy January Sunday

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 ...

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Happy New Year. 2016 opens with snow and ice

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 ...

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Happy Week before Christmas!

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 ...

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Getting ready for winter in Carlisle

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 ...

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Design Philosophy Series: Building a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch – A visualization

Deck Acorn has given me permission to post up a photo of the 3D rendering their Design department did for my house – this was still in the pre-visualization stage of things as we were working on finalizing.  I was pretty sure that I would not need an outside architect based on what I had ...

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Guest Artisan at Carlisle Artisans: Nancy Fohl

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 ...