Washington DC Mall Sky View

Unwinding from unwinding

so this past week the wife and I finally had our honeymoon. It took awhile, but we eventually figured our where to go and could actually afford to go :-). It kind of doubled as a 20th anniversary trip, but … Read More

More advanced sneak peak

anyone that actually reads this tripe (or is it menudo) can see the progress of the kitchen in the gallery. I’m also loading up a lot of the other projects we’ve had the lack of sanity to work on. Gallery … Read More

Done! mostly.

The kitchen is done. For the most part. Sub-floor is repaired and new tiles are down. The soffits and walls are now painted; finally. The trim for the kitchen is up sort of. Just need the nail holes filled and … Read More

Just a note before bed

I updated the photo gallery. There are pictures of the floor thus far. and added a few random pics here and there. The kitchen should be finished tomorrow. I hope. took advantage of the cleared out area and finished painting. … Read More

Talking Heads.

Summer is leaving. It never really got here all that much, but I woke up around 2am and it was dark out. Crap. Have to finish the Kitchen floor. Finish the window seat. Pile up kindling in the crawlspace. Do … Read More

Things to remember…

Chemical stripper and Melissa don’t mix. A regular stripper and Melissa probably don’t mix either, but I’m not gonna find out. We put a stripping agent on the floor. Then we decided it was hard enough walking around the kitchen … Read More

Don’t that beat all…

This weekend while Melissa ripped up the supremely soaked sub-floor in our kitchen I worked on her computer. This consisted of moving various parts around and taking 12 steps and 45 minutes to do somethings that should have only taken … Read More

“The Gods Hate Patrick & Melissa”

This week the dishwasher commits murder/suicide and takes the kitchen floor with it. It apparently has been a slow leaky death. The subfloor is all bubbled up. It’ll be quite the project when funds allow for it. In the mean … Read More