Houth Pith: Out and In

I have finally had it with my camera, a Canon, after they refused to honor the warranty because it was purchased on eBay (through an eBay store I might add). I'll save that discussion with them for another day, but in the meantime Ann purchased a new one for my birthday.

Here it is. In addition to the 8x optical zoom, image stabilization and Leica lens, I picked this because it was shockproof when dropped from 5 feet (Linda please note) and can take pics underwater (up to 10 feet.) St. Croix here we come!

But it also allowed me to catch up on the house progress. The interior ceiling is now painted and the Erthclay walls will be going up next week.

You may be sick, by now, of hearing about this from thith writer, but he doesn't care. You'll hear some more and like it.

The living room wall that meets the eye at the entrance will be an attempt to duplicate the color and shape (although impressionistically) of wild rice in August. The other walls including the kitchen will be acacia, the color of rice about now. The bedroom will feature an adobe/sierra/siena look and the bath will be some other color that has a funny name.

Tim from T2Techniques will be spending the week applying these ideas.

But much has also been accomplished outside.

Here's a snap of the 'back side' of the house (facing north). It shows the screen porch on the left and the deck for the hot tub in the center of the frame. To the right the remnants of Scott's futile efforts to thwarts squirrels remain.

By the way, when Dennis was excavating for the deck posts he uncovered a drainage tile that was packed solid with sunflower seeds.