On Matt's instructions, we uncovered and swept the basement floors this weekend. We really love the mottled, tan color of the concrete! I'm thinking about painting the walls blue, with white trim.

The masons were here on Saturday and they bricked in the bottom half of the opening that used to be a door under our stairs. A window will go in the top half, but today it looks like a walk-up take out coffee shop! Another view. Note the fine new…

I did a lot of work in the garden this weekend, mostly in cleaning up the flower bed area that is out of the picture (and only about 1/3 done, yikes!) and the black-eye susan area in the center. We are thinning out the abundant black-eyed susans and containing them…

Liam participated in a model UN yesterday, which didn't finish until 5pm so after picking Miles up at school at 2pm, we had a lot of time for Miles to play on the playground with his friends. His friends left around 4 and Miles and I took a stroll up…

The other brick house down the street was demolished this week. This is the house known as “Sandy’s house.” Sandy lived there with her aunt and uncle until they both passed away and Sandy moved to Florida. She was raised in the house and went to the church on the…

Liam is participating in a model UN today where students debate on behalf of countries. Liam is representing Mongolia and while he looks very nice, we don’t think he looks very mongolian!

The speculation continues–the little house on the corner was demolished today. A guy standing out there watching it told me that Sandy’s house (the brick you can see on the right of the top photo), will also be knocked down and new construction will fill the 3 lots. I took…

Rodrigo and crew did a fantastic and “freakishly fast” job drywalling then priming the walls. It’s starting to look like a living space now–though it also reminds me of a gallery mid-installation. Fresh paint smells and white walls. This shows the view looking toward the back from the windows. We…

We got a piece of furniture for the dining room. It's an antique Chinese sideboard. This room is getting a theme! We are crazy about the new sideboard and hope it will hold many a delicious buffet. To highlight two very cool stores near here–the sideboard is from Wow &…

Iggy, Matt's dog, comes to work with him sometimes. He's a really nice dog and has no problem making himself at home.