It was your birthday.

I turned 33. I had some sweet brunch at Key's in the great White Bear Lake. Go Bears! This is my interpretation of what I would look like if we'd bought a house in the 'burbs. The hair is fake, but it's creepy right?

So Long Carpets, It's Been Good to Know Ya

They made great drop cloths. It sure was fun to figure out where all of Mr. Remick's furniture was based on the wear tracks. What wasn't fun was pulling out all of the carpet staples and scrubbing the carpet pad off the hardwoods.

Midway is the new Uptown

MPLS aint got nothin on StP.

Sensi-Temp

Pictures from the first non-box meal we cooked at the new homestead. Gotta love the Sensi-Temp dial on the 1962 General Electric oven. Apparently people in 1962 ate a lot of eggs, steaks, french toast, hamburgers, pancakes, sausage and WEINERS. HAHAHAHAHA. Maybe this is what's wrong this the modern diet, not enough weiners.

Plaster repairs

What you can barely see here is a long horizontal crack in the plaster. Regularly not a problem, but here the plaster had separated from the lath and a patch would have fallen out over time. Thank Al Gore for the internet... and Ask This Old House.

Step 1, drill a bunch of holes into the plaster along the crack. About 85 in this case.

Step 2, fill every other hold with adhesive.

Step 3, add a washer and drywall screw to the holes without adhesive.

Step 4, tighten the screws down and let adhesive cure.

Step 5, remove the screws and washers then to what is by now a familiar chore, filling and sanding the holes.

Roofin

Who knew you could get dropped from your insurance company for a couple of broken shingles? Turns out they can do that. I guess the inside of a garage is like a gremlin, it multiplies when it gets wet and then bad things happen if you feed it cars after 11pm. Check out the before and after pictures. Either my insurance agent can take flattering photos or the insurance company has pretty low standards. Anyway this bought me some time until I can get it re-roofed.

House Guests

Thanks to everyone, human and otherwise who has come by to see the house and say hello.


Chowder, Cal's dog

Jack's response to Chowder

Tibby, makes himself at home.

Best buds

Chasing each other around the bathroom.