Category Archives: New House

Back when I worked for a living, I always had several pair of jeans going at once. I’d wear the newest ones to work, the comfy ones around the house,  and the frayed ones in the shop and garden. But it … Continue reading →

Twas the night before new years.  1988. Single digits and blowing,  The plow trucks were out straight. I was working every spare moment on the westford house at the time and new years eve was no exception. It was about 9pm … Continue reading →

It’s 2013. It’s 6 below and windy out. The tarps in the ceiling are doing a better job of keeping the cold out than keeping the heat in, and we almost ran out of fuel oil. Mary had to sweet talk … Continue reading →

When you get up every morning and look out the window and the new house looks a lot like it did yesterday, it’s easy to wonder if this is EVER going to end. (It is Week 22, if you are … Continue reading →

The roof system has been screwed up from the get-go. When we started, a birds-eye view of the roof was going to be a Z-shape, with a gable over the garage doors and the kitchen. This has a lot going … Continue reading →

There was a time, about 6 months ago, when we lived in a dream world where we hoped to be living in the new place shortly after labor day. For that to work, we’d have needed to start mid-May, nothing could have … Continue reading →

My apologies to all my readers for recent radio silence. I tried to do something fancy with my site and screwed it up in the process. It took 10 days to get it running again, and the fix was to move … Continue reading →

The day they dug the trench to the well, of course, it went right though the garden. They had to expose the well casing, so a few plants were displaced. The next morning, when I asked Mary if there was anything that … Continue reading →

There is just no end to site work. Some days, I go out there and I’m not really sure which dirt has been moved or which trenches filled. The piles of gravel which they’ve been spreading on the footing drains … Continue reading →