A monthly update not mentioned often
As part of maintaining this site, we regularly go through and update the static sections to fill in details or fix silly auto-correct-induced spelling mistakes.…
Category: Update
Come and Visit!
We now have a booking calendar so friends can “suggest” times they’d like to come and stay over for a night or two. It’s still in the beta…
Weeds: We have them.
One of the side effects of the recent rain has been an explosion of growth, from barren, horse-trampled, crumbling hillsides to…I have no idea what,…
Final Blue Room Pics
Here are the before shots, followed by that shot or a similar one that was loaded into the Sherwin Williams Color Snap App for a messy mockup,…
Tiny Updates
Here is a list of small things that are done/sorted/no longer broken but they don’t really merit a post of their own. 1. Wood chips continue…
Hot Tub, Step 4 – Electrical
As mentioned in an earlier post, we’re in the process of replacing the antiquated hot tub that came with the house. Now that the deck…
More on the painting
The purple room is now blue! It took 2+ coats of paint, plus 2 coats of primer, but it’s looking so much nicer. Next up,…
Hot Tub, Step 3 – Delivery
Our new hot tub arrived! The guys from Trade Wind Spas trucked it up the hill late in the afternoon. There was a bit of difficulty…
Sink Update
As noted a few weeks back, our new kitchen faucet ran into a couple of serious hiccups, leaving us with no hot water or clear…
Hot Tub Update – Pad done and new tub purchased
At the beginning of January, we visited Trade Winds Spas in Los Gatos (we had to wait a couple of weeks as the place was…
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…
…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…
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…
A little history lesson
WARNING: this is a really, really long post. As part of the purchase of Purgatory, we got any drawings/plans pertaining to the house. Right after taking possession,…
Looking back…
While mucking about, cleaning up the backend of Purgatory’s website this week, not only did I discover the scheduled publishing feature, but I also came…
Random Pics that Never Got Posted
While doing a bit of admin work, I came across a bunch of pics highlighting past projects and things that, for various reasons, never made…
A peek inside
I’m currently working on a bunch of posts covering things from the last two weeks, but those won’t be up until later today and tomorrow.…
A barn full of stuff.
Monday, while the Smith boys were tearing down the small horse shelter, I did a little barn exploration. The property has a six-stable, two-room roofed…
Septic Day!
The previous owners had a new septic put in over ten years ago, but in all that time never had it pumped. When we were…
New Walkthroughs Are Up!
On Monday I made a few new videos of the house. These, unlike the first batch, have some basic explanations of what you are seeing and–more importantly–some…
Photo Stream* Highlights
I finally posted some new images up on our Photo Stream. (Update: the Photo Stream is no more, so here are some highlights and a…
A week in review
Last week a lot of small things got done: 1. Sold the old golf cart. Agent Smith somehow broke it, so we Craigslisted it. 2. Got…
We have pretty electrons now
When we were in escrow and having inspections done, the electrical service to the house was noted to only have 175 amps. For out here…
A week in review?
The image below is the view of the house compound from our well. The well sits about 200 feet above the house. (Walking anywhere on our…
Progress Update
I’ve posted some new videos I took last week up on our Photo Stream.* The first is the main gate walking to the house yard and…
Architects and Some Panoramic Videos
Last week I went through some of the piles of drawings that were included with the house. Within one tube I found the original architect…
Debris and Horse Poop
Yesterday was a long day in San Jose. As we waited for a contractor, Agent Smith and I explored and documented new territory. Keep in…
Website News
I made a few new posts today and then tried setting up a plugin to auto-post things from here to Facebook. Not sure how well…
Work Continues
It’s been a very busy week. On Saturday, Agent Smith took a load of stuff down and met with the Wall Guy again to talk scope…
What a week…
It’s been a busy week and it’s hard to believe we took possession of the property less than two weeks ago. I’ve been a very busy…
Walkthroughs are up!
Head over to our iCloud stream to see the somewhat shaky walkthroughs. Edit 10/15/19: The video is up on Youtube now.