A bit of decor
Our front foyer was sorely lacking a spot for people to sit and take off or put on their shoes. This is an issue when…
Author: stega
The end of the purple
As written about earlier (here and here), the spare bedroom was an atrocious purple with lots of unsealed nail holes, screws embedded in the walls…
Neighbors up here…
Living on the outskirts of civilization means we have neighbors with large animals–cows, goats, sheep, llamas, the asthmatic donkey and, of course, horses. Last night,…
Purple Update
During spells of yecchy weather, I’ve been prepping the purple bedroom so it can be repainted. All the holes–and there were lots of them as…
The final bit of the planter box story.
Back when we lived in SF, we had a couple of planter boxes out on the side balcony. Originally a light well when the building…
Different Days, Different Looks
It’s rather lovely living up in the hills. One remarkable facet is the ever-changing light and ever-moving clouds. First shot below is a shot I…
Invaders
One of the weirder aspects of living somewhat in the wilds is that a lot of people get lost up here. Most often we have…
Updated Floorplan
I tried the iOS app MagicPlan to build a better floorplan, as I wanted somewhat precise measurements for rooms/areas in the house. MagicPlan turned out…
Drinking Hard
In light of the rant I just made, here’s a happy water moment to lighten the day.
How California Politicians Screwed Up My Kitchen Sink
A bit of background before I begin what is about to be a giant rant. The kitchen sink faucet that came with our house was…
Forgotten nugget of PO craptasm
I’ve been doing some cleanup, as we upload images for a post and then forget about them a lot of the time. I try to…
Purple…
It’s been somewhat rainy here at Purgatory–it is winter after all–so I have a second project starting that is completely indoors: repainting a room. Not just…
Next Project: Hot tub, Step 1
The house came with a hot tub. Like everything else here, though, it was fairly old (estimated age 35 years) and in need of attention. We…
One stall at a time
People that read the posts here know that we have a very large barn on the property. We found out from the Doc (the guy that had…
Some mornings we wake up in a cloud
And by cloud, I mean “a visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to…
Changes in the Pantry
When we moved in, we were not happy with the shelving in the pantry. Putting something just slightly too heavy on one end of a…
Our First Christmas at Purgatory
It was a very quiet day here at Purgatory as Agent Smith is still suffering from a nasty bug. Nevertheless, we had our first Christmas morning…
Holiday Cheer
This evening I recorded this for Agent Smith, and I’m now sharing it here. Feel free to laugh…a lot. For those that get blogpost updates…
So many wood chips
The trash pile is gone, but a small pile of random garbage the previous owners had chucked into that space remained (first pic below). I…
Will it rot?
Now that the great and all-mighty trash heap has been cleaned out (although it was not named Marjory nor did it have two odd creatures…
The good bad refrigerator
When the POs remodeled the kitchen, they used Lowes. I found this out thanks to another issue I’m currently chasing down. It seems the POs just…
Another pool post
Installing the new pool lights revealed yet another issue left by the POs. When the pump and original solar were put in, the pump controller…
Let there be some light
One of the slightly annoying things about my gigantic office is that the only light sources when we moved in were the weak bulbs in…
Stega cleans up
Last week when the crew was working on the giant garbage pile, I took the mini truck around to the north pasture area and pulled…
Trees: Before and After
As part of the great trash cleanup, we had Tree Techs By the Bay prune three trees near the house. Here are the before and…
The Trash Heap
One of the less-than-lovely things the previous owners did while living here is never disposing of things properly–namely yard waste, tractor tires, bits of concrete, old…
Finished Fence Fotos
Try saying that title five times fast. Anyway, I realized I had uploaded a couple of pictures of the fully-assembled fences Agent Smith and his father…
…and the kitchen sink
A while back we had the old water softener replaced. The guys from City Water Filter also looked at the reverse-osmosis setup under our kitchen…
A muddy start…
The grinders arrived this morning! We had serious rain last Monday and then again yesterday, which meant getting this new project underway took a bit…
Some random images that haven’t been posted.
While prepping another post about our kitchen sink, I found a bunch of images that never made it into posts, as they’re just quick one-offs…
Garage Work
AS has been spending his free time doing his own bit of nesting, organizing his office space and the garage. About six weeks ago, I bought…
Pools, hot tubs, and other watery updates
I’ve been working on lining up contractors for a couple of projects and thus have no big news to share. Instead I have a few random…