Another Time Lapse Video
I’m a tad behind on writing stories for the site, but the time lapse stuff has been a fun diversion…
Category: Update
The Lightning Storm and Resulting Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains
This summer I’ve been monkeying about with a time lapse camera pointed westward out over the valley. The camera was…
More Furniture Finds
After buying the lovely table at Michaan’s I started visiting in person during their preview hours and thanks to a…
A Trip to the Auction House
Way back early on after buying this place Agent Smith and I discussed ways to furnish it that did not…
Vacation Part 2
The chimney was stripped, the pool leak repaired, the closet holes patched, the Murphy bed put together and quite a…
Filling in the Holes
One last project that was completed while I was off on vacation was the final cleanup of the crawl space…
Stripping Down
A big big project went down while I was off on vacation back in March/April of 2019. The chimney got…
Additional Pool Cover Notes
A super cool thing Agent Smith has created for the pool is documented in the below image. That black dot…
Blue Room Refresh: Part 2
Continuing on from Monday’s post, back in early February of 2019 we ordered a Murphy bed from murphybeds.com and it…
SCU Lightning Complex and Midge
As most of the world knows, a lot of the state of California is currently on fire. Right now the…
Blue Room Refresh: Part 1
One of the first big changes I made to the house was to paint the blue room. Originally a very…
Leakage
The pool resurfacing project was completed back in 2017. In the winter of 2018 though we started to notice that…
Another Vacation for Stega
In March of 2019 I left the ranch again for a much needed vacation. This time I spent 16 days…
Linens and Things
Continuing the theme of quality of life improvements from last week, a very simple one put in place a year…
Long Lines
So this post is more along the line of a strict documentary for our own purposes than to provide entertainment…
Another Bit of Electricity
Before Shelter In Place, one of the things that I regularly did, especially in the winter months was turn on…
Battery Backup: Hosed
The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a hose we use…
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty-punny sort of title came to mind for this post.) Back in early 2019 I started scouring the…