Light Rail

Each time we visit the house we find something newly completed or something new that we had not noticed before. Today it was both.

We love how the light plays across the walls, highlighting patterns and creating new ones as the sun moves (yes, I know the earth rotates--at least that's what I've been told) and the seasons change.

And this from the front door.

To me it sort of looks like those space ships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Well, you may have to use your imagination a little bit.

And squint.

A lot.

Or all of the above.

But on to matters more down to earth.

Bob is busy making and installing the staircase railing. I must admit that I look at some of the stuff he does and just marvel.

If I would have been responsible for this we either would have the wobbliest hand rail in construction history.

Or I would have driven a spike to the core of the earth in hopes that would hold.

But the plain fact is that Bob installed these plates on the ledge, used an accompanying tapered screw on the underside of the post and tapped it into place tightening as it goes.

Ingenious!