New Years Resolution...

DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY!
break-time is over, but it was nice for awhile. Sofie got to play in the snow in Spokane at xmas, and we came home to a lovely pirate gift from our neighbors, thank so much guys.
In house news, we've moved into the kitchen for some re-arranging. This has been partially inspired by the killer deal on our new used gas range [thanks Philpott!], and partially by our own desire to cram in a dishwasher. Stay tuned...
Also thanks to Aunt Beth for the cool "Still Life with Persimmons"!

A little re-framing

The trampoline floor at the entryway [see post from May] finally had to go. 2x4s on-the-flat became on-edge, and the office moved to a larger space and has become more studio-like. And Sofie has a new favorite hideyhole. Much better!

FALL

It's fall.
we have pumpkins.

decor

As the wedding day drew closer, we enlisted an army of friends to help us with the final push. Extra thanks to all those who donated their time.

I have a good idea

...we'll BUILD our own tent! It actually turned out to be a pretty good idea, and a fun time. Of course we wish we had more time to finesse the details, but what the hay, the next will be twice as cool! It was a simple construction of 2x4s, cable, and a fiber-reinforced polyethylene sheeting [often seen wrapped around the scaffolding of buildings under construction or repair]. It was semi-transparent and had an interesting diamond grid of nylon strings making it virtually tear-proof!

A nice big deck

..what every bride wants.
We were able to use 95% recycled materials for our new deck/wedding-platform/dance-floor. For the source of material, see blog posts from June... We even buried the remainder of our concrete rubble. For all you archi-dorks out there, I think that's 2 LEED points for on-site reuse of waste material!

We also scored some free cedar fencing from a neighbor, that with a little [okay, a lot] of milling, became a wood screen woven into our chain link fence. Thanks to the family for all their hard work!

In case you're wondering, we spread all the cedar sawdust in a layer below deck, to help protect us from the hymenoptera, and their allies.

Facelift

Some old cedar deck boards recycled into a new railing, courtesy of nicole, jake's planer, and danielle.