Sun burn

We are burning silk screens in the back yard.

And washing them in the tub.

Almost done with the garage skate ramp

We still haven't gotten rid of the mattress yet...

Update on the garden

We have been a little distracted by surfing, good weather, camping, cats and weddings.  But this afternoon we spent some time at home and were noticing how much the plants have grown.

I think the first pictures were from just four months ago.  Its really amazing how fast plants can grow, the artichokes have gotten really big and all of the natives we planted have begun to grow new leaves and stems, even the little oak tree that one of max's crews dug up on the side of the highway and little grass and weeds make there way everywhere.

Also there was an eclipse and the light through the trees cast hundreds of little eclipses on Stacey and the fence.

 

We frosted the windows in the classical music listening room

We bought some frosted window/privacy screening/contact paper at the hardware store and put it on our windows.

We watched a step by step video online and we really liked it so we are going to take you through a step by step thing too.  It involves a lot of spraying soapy water.
Okay, first you clean the window.  Its supposed to be with a lint free towel, but we used a dishrag... it might have left some cat hair on the window. 

Next you spray the window.

  

Then you measure and cut the paper.

Next you spray the window.

Then you put the paper on and squeegee it on in a super serious kind of way.

Then you spray the window

Then you cut it just right.

Then you spray the window.
After that, you squeegee it again and dry the corners... take a moment to remove stray sand and cat hair and stand back and enjoy your nice frosty window. 

 

This is not our window.... 

Gardening Tips For Cat Lovers

Cats love bunch grasses.

And dusty dirt spots.

And also smooth round rocks in little secret places (for when cats are feeling a little down).

I see a skylight and i want to paint it white

Sunday after surfing we wanted to get warm so we got back up in the skylight and painted the drywall.

Carpenters take a break from carpentry

We are building a skylight! or maybe just uncovering one.

We will get back to the other projects we started writing about and give you updates.  We just get excited and start new things!
When we moved into our little house it had two skylights.  One was in the bathroom and the other was in the attic above our bedroom.  There was a little window in the ceiling, but it was covered in a burbly piece of plexi-glass and oozy, aging, yellowish caulk all around the edges.  We figured we would take out the plexi and frame in and drywall the shaft.

So we smashed the plexi glass... it was the only way, and pried loose the caulk.   Once we had it opened up we realized that the sky light and window in the ceiling didn't really line up and there were some rafters and generally a lot of stuff in the way of our shaft construction.
We figured maybe all that stuff was kind of nice and it would be a good challenge to try and cut out drywall to go around all of the angles and beams.

It was warm right up next to the skylight.

We took turns up there.
That's how lovers do it.

Started work on a mini ramp for the garage... is this possible?

We have a little one car garage with a dirt floor and a new roof we put on last fall.  It seems like you could build a super mini skate ramp that could fit inside and be a little personal indoor skate park for wintry times when the days are short and the concrete is wet outside.  Anyway, threw some plywood on the roof rack and started building out one of the transitions.  There is still too much junk in the garage to build much more yet.  We've got to find a new home for the old futon mattress, maybe the landfill.

The drawers are done!

Its a little crooked...

We are building new doors for our kitchen cabinets

We went to urban ore to sell some old doors and we found this great pile of redwood siding that had a little bit of greenish stuff on it that was maybe moss... or paint?  So we decided to throw away our old cabinet and drawer doors and build some new ones.

Stacey is really good at cutting stuff.

Max made a jig to try to cut the pieces straight... and maybe some of them were.

We painted them with polyacrilic - shiny town stuff... but are they too country?

We have two cats, and if you peek in our windows we're cuddling, but stop peeking please