http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Barbie Pink is the New Black en-us ayse@blue-room.com 2010-03-04T12:43:37-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001871.html Yesterday it just poured. It rained so hard for a couple minutes that I could not see the house across the street from the office window. Amazing. When the deluge let up, I went out to check the defenses. This... 1871@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Yard 2010-03-04T12:43:37-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001868.html I think it's spring! Evidence: Time to prune off that funny branch that started growing straight up this year. Also, notice that I've been out killing Bermuda grass with Roundup during our brief dry spells. This week has been all... 1868@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2010-02-27T11:58:17-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001867.html Tree trimming companies around here will deliver a truckload of fresh chipped wood, for free, as long as you're willing to take all 20 yards of it. You may recall that last year, we split just such a load with... 1867@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2010-02-23T18:25:02-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001860.html Apparently it's been a little snowy in other parts of the country. This is what our weather has been like here: Hah, just kidding. Actually, today was a rare break in the rain storms that have been buffeting us for... 1860@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2010-02-07T17:50:17-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001857.html Seems like forever since I wrote about what is happening in the garden, what with everything else going on. And we did get more than our annual average rainfall in the space of a week there, so not much has... 1857@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2010-01-27T17:04:57-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001856.html A commenter on our last post asked about the stair block, so this seemed as good a time as any to point out that you should always make sure your ladder is firmly seated on a surface that will not... 1856@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Hall 2010-01-20T17:31:09-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001855.html Apparently we're due to get rainfall this week equal to our average annual rainfall -- between 10 and 20 inches depending on how the weather works out. Sounds like the perfect weather to spend some cozy time indoors, scraping old... 1855@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Hall 2010-01-18T18:51:32-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001854.html With the dining room mostly done, we've turned our attention to the hallway (well, we can't lose track of our plan this early in the year). The hallway is pretty large and we use it all the time, so to... 1854@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Hall 2010-01-11T13:31:50-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001853.html All the pondering of last year's work is over, and it's time to turn our thoughts to what we'll get done this year. It seems to work very well for us to make a prioritized list of projects at the... 1853@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Planning 2010-01-04T19:58:14-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001852.html There's quite a bit of overlap with this list and the Ten Year Plan update I posted yesterday, mainly because we have been getting off our butts to work our way through the Plan before we run out of years... 1852@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Planning 2010-01-03T19:27:56-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001851.html In this, our seventh year at Casa Decrepit, we made a lot of progress on making the house more livable. It helped that I was actually living at home and we both had more free time thanks to a fun... 1851@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Planning 2010-01-02T16:31:08-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001849.html The one thing that wasn't really working in the dining room was the light. There was not enough of it, and the fixture had some issues, as well. We actually considered, at 7pm on Christmas Eve, trying to find a... 1849@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Dining Room 2009-12-29T14:59:00-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001848.html In just enough time, we pulled the tape off the molding, cleaned the floor, and moved in the table and sideboard. It's nice to be done with the dining room for the time being. It was also nice to have... 1848@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Dining Room 2009-12-26T01:01:16-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001847.html In the light of day, the ceiling still needed another coat of paint (we only did one last night, plus some touchups, so this was not unexpected). We ran over some parts of the ceiling and then moved on to... 1847@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Dining Room 2009-12-24T23:42:12-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001846.html So exciting to have visible progress that I give you these two pictures of progress on the dining room: First, we have the ceiling taped off for painting. I used to try to freehand the edges, but I've gotten a... 1846@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Dining Room 2009-12-24T11:01:05-08:00