We now have a house full of windows waiting to be installed (Picture 1). As they hustle to get everything ready for the window installation there has been lots of activity. The grading work was given extra urgency by the forecast of rain tomorrow (Thursday) and Sunday. They really want to get all of the […]
Ted was out on Tuesday cutting down the grasses and weeds that will become a fire hazard on the slope above our citrus grove. While he was there, the inspector came to look at the rebar and forms for the retaining walls on the west (Picture 1) and east sides of the house (Picture 2). […]
They poured the concrete for the foundation of the retaining walls attached to the house and the diversion wall above the house today, but neither of us could be there, so no pictures. Instead, here are some more pictures of the things growing on the property. Many of these are followups to the pictures included […]
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 […]
We are about to leave for a two week trip to the Pacific. We will spend most of a week with Taylor on the Gold Coast of Australia, southeast of Brisbane, and then, on the way back, we will stop for three days on the beach in Fiji. Although not much has work on the […]
Gentle readers, in your concern you have been inquiring: “Why no blog entries for almost a month?” Here are some possible answers (a) The big one happened and SoCal finally fell into the ocean.(b) It has rained for most of 30 days and 30 nights. (c) The work on the house has mostly been behind […]