Well, Well

Dottie Williams and I go way back — way back to childhood, although we weren’t ever close friends. We seem to run into each other more and more as we get older (and better, I’m sure). At some point a few years back she came in to get some t-shirts for her new business, Gentle […]

Window Winterland

Around here, for the last 48 hours, it’s been all about the weather. But: we have windows, so who cares? Yes, our new, wrong-colored windows — Did I tell you that? I might not have. It turns out, we had decided on forest or, in this nomenclature, evergreen, rather than dark brown, for the outside […]

A Chill in the Air

I don’t know if it’s my thyroid or what, but I am having a heck of a time staying warm this winter. I can already hear my sister Terri in the comments section: “Maybe that’s because you live in Gunnison.” But I’ve lived in Gunnison before and not had this problem. It feels new, and […]

Epiphanic

I had an epiphany in a fast-food drive-through yesterday. Okay, I can hear the judgment: yes, I was eating fast food. I had my car because the City of Gunnison has not been at its best for snow removal this year, and instead of plowing up everything when it turned to slush at 36 degrees […]

Inside Out

Here you go: the public unveiling of the first look from inside a framed Good Room. I have yet to see this myself; this is Lynn’s photojournalistic effort. (In the old days, I would have known how to set this picture straight; in this brave new electronic world, I can’t figure it out, so we’ll […]

Up on the Roof: The Rest of the Story

In yesterday’s truncated post, I was just starting to transition to Riverwalk, where Jered’s crew is spending this week up on the roof, covering trusses with the base layer. Neither Lynn nor I have had a chance to give this an up-close inspection yet, although she reported last night that the garage has yet to […]

All Trussed Up and Where We Go

We will see if we can’t be more cogent about trusses (and offer less detail about rooftop disasters) today. But we’re off to a very late start, so that opens the door for ever more interruptions. Because Lynn thinks she has mended well enough, she went off to one of her 12-hour days yesterday (Gunnison-Almont-Crested […]

Long Golden Trusses

Merry Trussmas! was the reaction around Gunnison yesterday. I was at my Skype lunch when Lynn came in, very excited, with more video than still photos. (And you are all spared– I mean, miss out — on the seven-minute video of the presumably tanned and rested crane operator skillfully wrangling a truss into place over […]

In Decision

I haven’t posted about our house for awhile because of Mexico. (Everything, it turns out, is Mexico’s fault.) Before he started work on our house, Jered, the subcontractor in charge of framing, took his family to Mexico. And this last week he has pulled his crew off our house to start another, while waiting for […]

Measuring Down

The ancient Egyptians had an odd way of marking time: their years reset when a new pharaoh ascended the throne, and ended when he (except for a couple of inadvertent shes) died. So, if Britain tracked years that way, it would be in the 400th regnal year of Elizabeth II, but prior to that it […]