Feral “Fun”
Since moving here, we have been fighting the good fight to trap, neuter/spay, and release (TNR) the feral cats that live here. The first couple…
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Divesting
While we have purchased many things since buying this crazy place, we’ve also managed to get rid of a lot of things left here by…
Rain Machines
As part of our home automation work, and a setup we actually got up and running last summer, are the new RainMachines. These are Internet…
Stega’s Aborted Vacation
So there I was. Mid-March 2020. All set to take a much-needed vacation. Packed my bags and flew off to Little Cayman for what was…
Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns, Part 2
The last post detailed some of the craziness of living here, namely a particular resident and the drainage issues she caused but blames on others.…
Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns, Part 1
Recently there was an article in Bloomberg about the many efforts of AirBnB to silence any reports of crimes committed at properties listed through them.…
Extra Foyer Bits: “Custom” Shelves
Just like the walls and chimney in the great room, the foyer needed something on the walls on either side of the front doors. I…
Extra Great Room Bits: Fun with Mirrors
It seems I’m still fine-tuning the decor in the Great Room. When we had the awful yellow paint stripped off the chimney column, the pretty…
Birds and Windows
People in glasses houses–besides not throwing stones–also need to find ways to mitigate the needless avian deaths caused by all that glass. With over 100…
Septic Day (just a cleaning)
Hard to believe our lovely septic tank is six years old. Late last summer, it got its first cleanout and checkup. Everything looked good, the…
The Extra Door
Revisiting something mentioned in an earlier post and providing a bit more detail. Most of the doors here are sliding glass ones, but when we…
More blooms of purgatory
It’s been ages since one of these posts. No matter the time of year, there are flowers here.
Sunday Panorama
A capture from our TikeePro when we moved it to its semi-permanent location atop the ladder to the great room roof.
“New” Desk
Still working through the backlog of images and stories, but unlike the last multi-post saga, this is a relatively quick story. During his last visit…
Sunday Panorama
The view from the studio roof.
Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was covering patched areas in the kitchen–where the old furnace register once…
Sunday Panorama
This is what it’s like to lay on the floor of the great room.
Unifying with Circles
Carrying on from the last post and finally finishing the super long tale of the redesigning “process” for the look and feel of great room……
Great Room Note–Outside Design Service
During our random discussions about what to do paint- and furniture-wise in the great room, Agent Smith pointed me to a website that promised to…
Making the Great Room Great–Footnotes on Molding
Perhaps my favorite detail in the great room is the very subtle change in the molding. Backing up a bit to tell the story… For…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Nine: Ambient Lighting
In addition to deleting the sconces in the great room, Agent Smith got creative and ordered some color-changing strip lights from superbrightleds.com and controllers. Unfortunately,…
ChaCha Mucha
The original deal for the property included an old 40″ riding mower that had seen better days. It was underpowered, top-heavy, and just not really…
Making the Great Room Great, Step Eight: Wall Lighting
When we had the main electric panel redone, we decommissioned the monument outlets in the great room and outside areas. We knew there had been…