http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Barbie Pink is the New Black en-us ayse@blue-room.com 2012-01-31T22:30:15-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002069.html The floor tiles we bought for the cat room were the cheapest ones available, a pattern called "Chaucer." No, I don't know why. We do not question the person who names peel and stick floor tiles. Noel spent the last... 2069@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-31T22:30:15-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002068.html A couple of weeks ago we bought a paint sprayer, and I wanted a simple project to get to know how to use it and see where it could help with other painting jobs. My planned painting of the cat... 2068@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-29T22:21:09-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002067.html While I was out digging holes in the garden, Noel went to IKEA to get the rest of our cabinet doors, so we could finish up that job. With some feline assistance, he systematically worked his way across the installed... 2067@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-28T20:47:39-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002066.html This week, a nice big package arrived from Oregon. I'm kind of perilously close to getting into some serious trouble ordering fruit trees. There are still a few spots in the yard where I could squeeze one in, but it's... 2066@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-28T17:02:54-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002065.html We have our project schedule, and mingled among the various things we have on the list to fulfill the needs of our permit, we have other things that are not as time-dependent. One of which was replacing the failing kitchen... 2065@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-23T00:18:34-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002064.html More work this weekend on the Big Bathroom Project. We tested the wainscoating in the upstairs bathroom, which turns out to come off very nicely without breaking into pieces (I didn't get any pictures, but you'll see it soon enough).... 2064@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-16T23:38:58-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002063.html This week I used post-it notes to put our project plan on the wall. The left side is months with tasks under them, the right side is materials to be bought by task. Then I was looking at the tasks... 2063@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-08T18:07:15-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002062.html In late November we finally got our permits for the project we've been calling The Big Bathroom Project. The permits let us go back to being a 2 1/2 bath house, which would be really nice after so many years... 2062@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-03T21:18:11-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002061.html This was kind of an unplanned year. Not in the sense that we didn't have a plan, but in the sense that we did a lot of things we didn't really have planned, and not much of what we had... 2061@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-02T11:04:12-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002060.html This year we didn't make much progress on the plan. Instead we spent six months building a concrete wall and reworking the entire front of the house. This was not really good for a renovation plan, but it has earned... 2060@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2012-01-01T23:13:23-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002059.html At some point I'm going to have to admit that it is time to stop buying trees. I mean, we have 1/6 of an acre here, with a sizable house on it, and eventually I will simply run out of... 2059@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2011-12-27T22:11:00-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002058.html While I have been painting hive bodies (still working on it; today was disrupted by social events as is usual in December), Noel did a nice little tiny project in the dining room. He'd stripped this piece of trim, though... 2058@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2011-12-18T22:20:02-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002057.html Somebody on a beekeeping forum once remarked, ruefully, "I never realized beekeeping involved so much carpentry." It really doesn't, not in the long term, but at first it can seem like it. Today I lined everything up on a tarp... 2057@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2011-12-17T17:39:16-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002056.html This weekend we moved the scaffolding up to the corner of the house, for the last bit of eave-closing-in. It's been very cold and clear lately, for long enough that we knew the weather would change soon. There wasn't much... 2056@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2011-12-12T07:10:45-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/002055.html It's the dark time of the year. I leave for work before the sun is up and come back well after sunset. Today when I got home, there were some packages in the hall. My hives arrived from Brushy Mountain.... 2055@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ 2011-12-08T22:12:56-08:00