Big and Little; Walls, Doors and Drawers

Sunday and today the place was humming with activity. Let me restate that. Today the place was humming with activity. Sunday it was yawning with activity for the amateurs were at work. Let me rephrase that. The amateurs were in the house.

And they were putting up knobs and drawer pulls. If you promise not to get out your micrometers, I'll show you a picture of our handiwork. Let me rephrase that. Our accomplishments.

Promise?

OK.



Here's a pretty boss picture and I think it's OK to take a micrometer to these two.

But those little swirly lines didn't make it any too easy.

And here's a picture of our cute little dishwasher. In case you're wondering, yes, indeed, we paid extra for 'cute.'



I must say, though, that it is quite groovy. The front will have a matching cherry face and all the controls are on the top of the drawer itself.

And here are Tim and Jason hard at work on the orange wall.


Let me rephrase that. Here are Tim and Jason hard at work on the orange wall . . .

. . . until Charlie walks in the front door.

It's about 6:30 as I write this and Tim is still working feverishly to have the walls dry out. Fans are humming and windows are open, but it will take some time I'm sure.




Charlie took a cfm measurement. Someday I'll take that seriously and look up what it means. The short version is this. It's how tight a house is as measured by covering an exterior door and blowing a fan in (or out?) to measure the resistance to air flow. As Emma and I were departing Charlie said they were hoping for over 400.

As soon as I know, you'll know.

I wish I could have stayed, but I had a meeting with the Paper Company. (Details forthcoming at Northpith.)