Yesterday, Ted’s colleague Charlie Chubb helped him cross off another bucket list item: hiking the truck trail from our house to Modjeska Peak. They started early on a day with low, coastal effects clouds (Picture 1). Picture 2, taken about 5 miles into the hike, shows that, by that point, they were above the low-level […]
One of the things we love about being out at Modjeska is that the landscape is a constantly changing show and always interesting to look at. All of the winter rains that delayed both the grading above the house and the construction of the retaining walls gave us a better than the usual wildflower displays. […]
With the delivery date of the windows and doors approaching, there has been some increased urgency to finish the work on the rough plumbing, wiring, and HVAC that can be done in a structure without doors and windows. Picture 1 shows how the electricians have made progress connecting the wiring into the utility boxes. Having […]
This is the second (of, probably, three) blogs in our catching-up series. Although there was not a lot of new work on the house in the last month while we wait for the windows and doors, there was some. In some ways, the most interesting, because I had never seen it before, was the rough […]
It has been over a month since our last blog post. This reflects in part that work has been proceeding more slowly because the doors and windows will not be delivered until the second week in May — later than we had hoped. Although the rough wiring, plumbing, mechanical and related things can be done […]