Studious
My son Jeff sitting in his dining room.
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Location Shooting
A little before Robin was born, Jeff asked if I would be interested in making some studio-style images of her. I usually cringe when people ask me to document their Kodak moments. For one thing, I haven’t done any commercial … Continue reading
Robin Morningstar
I met my granddaughter today. Robin Morningstar is eight days old. Wee little feet… …wee little hands… …and an almighty yawn!
Aphelion
The Aphelion occurs today at 0400 hours, UTC. (That’s 9 PM yesterday here in the Pacific Northwest.) The aphelion is the point our orbit when we are farthest from the Sun. This occurs when the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing summer, … Continue reading
The Fourth!
At Port Gardner, Everett.
Assembling Crown Molding
Many new homes have “great rooms” that make typical molding and millwork look puny. There are larger variations of common sizes available at the big box home improvement stores (5 1/2″ baseboard to replace 3 1/2″ for example), but sometimes … Continue reading
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Summer
Legerdemain and PFM – 4
Fitting Shelves into a curved space. Our new staircase is curved, so the understair storage area is also curved. It is off the kitchen, designed to be used as a pantry. So, how to put shelves in here… There must … Continue reading
Wheeeee!
Legerdemain and PFM – 3
Replacing locksets and striker plates. Every home past a certain age has a lockset or striker plate that has been removed and replaced multiple times by inept people, leaving a crater of mangled wood fibers where the mounting screws need … Continue reading
Precautions
We live in an earthquake zone that is in constant motion. As a result, I have adopted a habit of bolting all cabinets to the wall so that a small tremor cannot make them fall on top of someone passing … Continue reading
One Month Already
We’ve been here a full month already. How time flies when you don’t know what you’re doing! 😀 Here is Camille, trying to rehabilitate the kitchen last May. We hired a couple of housekeepers to help, and they spent ten … Continue reading
WTH
Brand new, out of the box, eight minutes of use. The glass just fell off
Mitering Trim Stops
On a previous post, I mentioned mitering the ends of a piece of MDF millwork. The reason to do this is that it looks so, soooo much better than just hacking off the end of the trim and slapping it … Continue reading
A Day In The Life
8:40 AM The new fridge is delivered. Chop-chop, empty everything out onto the counter tops and stand back. This is the first appliance we’ve installed that did not require a panicked dash to the garage to make or modify something … Continue reading