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Entries made in November, 2014

Building Cabinets with Lian

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

After my parents headed home from our Thanksgiving week, my brother stayed for a couple extra days to hang out and help with construction projects in the house. I was a little hesitant about this, mostly because a) while we care very much about eac...

November 2014, in Photos

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Alan Family Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 27th, 2014

Back in September, Charlie, and Becky let us know they'd be heading to California for Thanksgiving, kindly offering up their house to our family, should we like to celebrate here in Vermont. To our delight, my parents and brother happily agreed to ...

Good Riddance, Camper

Sunday, November 23rd, 2014

Dear Camper, it's time you found a different home. Now that we have a little house, you're the last thing we want to see from our kitchen window. We'll keep you on the land for now, but seriously, your days are numbered. ...

The Kitchen, Part Two: A Counter

Friday, November 21st, 2014

The quality of our lives is rapidly improving now, and one reason is this: we have a counter! This may not seem like a big deal, but considering our camper had zero counters, and it is really hard to make anything or prepare food without a horizont...

Three Cheers for Charlie

Sunday, November 16th, 2014

There have been so many times during this house-building process where we would have loved to have had more help. The trouble with this was, we didn't have the wherewithal to organize said helping, nor necessarily the skills needed to show said hel...

Scoundrels!

Saturday, November 15th, 2014

This morning, two woodpeckers started pounding on the water storage shed I've been building. Most of the 2x4s in the framing are scraps that have been laying in various states of cover for the last year… left over bracing from the workshop construc...

Productive Snow Day

Friday, November 14th, 2014

We awoke this morning to find that it had snowed! Our first snowfall in our new house! I spent it inside, cleaning sawdust off of things and staining our loft floor. Tyler spent it outside, working on our cistern/water situation. ...

Cleaning Our Timber Frame Cottage

Monday, November 10th, 2014

We've spent countless hours cleaning this place. There is continual sawdust sweeping from cabinet construction, and a giant plaster clean-up operation to finish. Entire days have passed where I'm on the ladder, scraping tiny bits of plaster off of ...

Congratulations!

Friday, November 7th, 2014

Congratulations, Mister Director of Technical Operations at Bocoup! I'm so proud of you, sweetie! ...

The Kitchen, Part One: The Sink Cabinet

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Gods bless Ana White. She's the building maven who lives in Alaska and posts tutorials for constructing anything from mud room organizers to kitchen tables. Eventually, I'd like to be building with our own wood while using traditional joinery, but ...

Hot Running Water

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

After having lived without hot running water on and off for four years or so, I am convinced that it is life's greatest luxury, with a washing machine coming a close second. It transforms a life of labor to a life of comfort. When I think about all...

A Functional Range

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

It's official: we have a fully-functional stove and oven! Thank you, delivery dudes. Thank you for hooking everything up, Rich! ...

On Being Warm

Sunday, November 2nd, 2014

...and mamma in her ’kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap. There was a time when I didn't know why on earth the people in "The Night Before Christmas" were wearing hats to bed. After living in a ...

First Night in the House!

Saturday, November 1st, 2014

Well, I've been saying that I didn't want to move in the house until it was finished (I couldn't bear for life to become less comfortable than it already was in our camper, and I desperately did not want to live in a construction zone) but here we ...