by Yule Heibel

Overcast morning. The worker crew is here in full force. I’m sitting at the “book desk” in the living room, as the crew had started on scraping the sunroom windows when I wanted to start my morning routine. Yesterday: long-ish conversation with Ax. about his veganism, which he said is a kind of religion for […]

Writing down the date just now I realized it was exactly ten days ago that Suzie, the amazingly helpful woman at the Home Depot Pro Services Desk pointed out that date’s palindrome (7-17-17) when she took my order for the decking materials. That’s sort of when we started in earnest on this project – which […]

Getting up early is hard for W. and me. Yet here we are, doing it, with him coming home late-ish in the evenings, seven or seven-thirty. My work continues, making dinner, cleaning up, etc. Now there’s the company, too, of which I’m glad, but it extends social “on” time for longer than usual. When we […]

Beautiful sunny morning, low humidity, lovely. I’ve opened the windows and doors. It smells like chemicals, though, which is the exterior paint, specifically the primer. The crew worked hard again all day yesterday, although “only” till 4:30 / 4:45p.m. They continued scraping, and also sanding (deck railings), as well as priming. We kept all the […]