Well, yesterday’s post didn’t work for most people. So I am including a link, which I believe should work for anyone. https://www.wright-macdonald.com/blog/slideshow.php
We have been “in” the house now for two weeks. I put “in” in quotes for two reasons. First, just because we are in the house doesn’t mean the workmen are out. Although the house is officially inhabitable and complete, most days we share the house with workers of various trades who are fixing or […]
We slept in the new house last night. The final inspection was approved on Thursday, January 30th. Yesterday, the contractor sent cleaners to clean the place; today they came and sealed most of the grout and started work on patching the nicks and other problems with the paint. Monday they will come and touch up […]
Well, it’s just short of two months since we last wrote the blog. I know I stopped writing, not sure about Ted, because it became clear that we were not going to be in the house for Christmas, and I was so disappointed that I just quit. It is not that nothing has happened in […]
One of us has been out most days this week, and we have both taken photos, but it’s been hard to think of what to write. And most of the photos are full of drop cloths or trash. It rained last week, which was useful because the skylight in the guest bathroom no longer leaked, […]
Ted was out at the house on Saturday and took these pictures. He was going to weed-whack a hill that has some tall grass growing on it, but there were Santa Ana winds and it was very hot and dry. It was too dangerous to use even the plastic cord because if you struck a […]
A lot of finishing work has been done in the last 10 days. Two of the three shower doors have been installed. The contractor assumed we would want clear glass since that is what modern houses usually have. We were both opposed although for different reasons. Ted doesn’t like the problems of hard water streaking […]
We’ve had Santa Ana winds this week and they turned the power off Wednesday afternoon and didn’t turn it back on until early Thursday morning. Fortunately, the people working on the earth moving were able to keep working. The counter people have been busy this week. We have full counters in both kitchens and the […]
We have been having trouble at the house because the left-hand driveway has been being rebuilt and the parking area off of it is unavailable. We have had a lot of different tradespeople out there and our street is very narrow. It is also a Fire Watch time when you’re not supposed to park on […]
A man crashed his car into a telephone pole this morning around 3AM, and the car caught fire starting a vegetation fire on the main road into our canyon. The road was closed except to residents from then until 2PM. Fortunately, they let our workers who were coming from the South in. Those from the […]