A day in the life of....: July 2009

"WHAT'S UP, MAN?!"

"Check it out...I got all four fingers and thumb. On my daddy's 3rd day as a custom sauna and wine rack carpenter, he tried to join the ranks of the 4 1/2 fingered men, like his buddy Bolssen. Daddy thought it woulda been funny to give a movie "1 1/2 thumbs up". Unfortunately he was unsuccessful in taking off the thumb, but was able to alter his thumb print significantly. I'm not sure what he was saying...but he was yelling something about "No, they'll never catch me now!""

can you spot Oskar's towel?

"what chu look'n at?"

Oskar LOVES to stand and pound on the ottoman. And actually his latest favorite game we like to call "clean the table". We pile as many toys as we can on the ottoman, an he swipes his arms across and knocks them off as fast as he can....to better clear the table for him to continue pounding. We're thinking a drum is an order for his fast approaching 1st birthday!

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We decided to go to the salvage yard (http://http//www.driftwoodsalvage.com/) when they told us in a rather hillarious, angry email about their struggle with the City of Palo Alto over their completely over-stocked grounds (doors and windows and reclaimed redwood siding as far as you could see). They said they needed to get rid of everything, and advertised the pile-o-kindling as half off! We went simply to "see what they had".....and for just over $200, we came home with....

.....a door for the kitchen ($75 - no jambs)

...and a sliding door to replace the double window

in the middle bedroom ($150).

The very first time we

walked thru the house, we talked about

putting a door out of the middle bedroom.

Unfortunately, nothing is as simple as just switching out a door.

We decided, "since you're in there anyway", why not take out that

little kitchen window. There's plenty of light thru the new full glass door,

and so that "when we redo the kitchen" (spoken like a true 'superviser') .....

we would then be able to put an upper cabinet all the the way to the wall,

instead of the wasted half-round shelves we currently have.

of course, the paint on the west side of the house was
so weathered and so bad, I decided I needed to
scrape the house like a methhead for 4 days in a row.
Exhausting that fun, I decided I would save time and just pull this bad old
bathroom window patch out, and replace with new redwood siding.
Oh...and that bathroom window looks like garbage,
"you should change that since you're in there anyway..."

Apparently, finding 10" redwood siding isn't that easy.
(Proven by our neighbor who had an unfortunate BBQ accident,
and now, an awful mismatched patch job).
But alas, our trusty salvage yard had salvaged redwood planks...
and of course, they too were on sale!
($1.35 l/f, compared to the $5.99 l/f quotes I had gotten)