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26 weeks since we started this.

New floors and a few trips to escape the work zone.

Gilligan Welcomes Us Home We must be getting close to the end one way or the other; our contractors have started taking away tools that they’ve been storing in my garage for months.

Primal Scream Getting closer to getting this project finished, but it’s like we’re chasing bad guys down an alley and they keep knocking over garbage cans to slow us down.

lazy caterer Some invisible work this week.

Remain in Light Lost my shape Trying to act casual Can’t stop I might end up in the hospital The news that the neighborhood is happiest about this week: all1 of the exterior work has been finished: siding replaced, new aluminum flashing/trim in place, and…

Hi, Dad Continuing to inch forward; it’s starting to feel like this may actually come to an end at some point.

Sieve of Eratosthenes Fingers X-ed that this 19th week is the last week of the project whose cardinality is expressed using a prime number.

Zeno’s almost there This week: We moved into the house twenty years ago this week, on 6/1/1996.

filament We’re now at the point where we’re frustratingly close to seeing the end of this whole thing, which is still better than a few weeks ago when we were frustratingly unable to imagine wrapping this up.

This week we met a new baby bunny friend who’s living in the hostas by the driveway.

tantalizing.

W.A.S.T.E.

Jacobean Drama I spent most of this week cooped up in a conference center in Lake Arrowhead, CA with my cow-orkers, for the Art & Logic Annual Conference.

Berg.

caesura Not a ton of visible work this week.

Baudelaire When we last left you, dear reader, we were suddenly replacing a wall after discovering a hidden civilization of carpenter ants where we intended to put the new sliding glass door.

Monday night, I went into Manhattan for a “benefit/funkraiser” for P-Funk/Talking Heads/Praxis/etc. keyboardist Bernie Worrell.

Them!

This week: Some more rough plumbing and finally some new windows.

Hickory - closeup The big surprise when I returned from Texas on Wednesday night was seeing the new hardwood floor in place in the kitchen: IMG_2587 IMG_2586 The wood is 5” wide character grade hickory – as we started looking at samples of flooring, I rea…

The Meaning of Life An abbreviated update from my hotel room in Austin, Texas.

The first big change this week – a new plywood subfloor went down.

Super Magritte Bros.

demo begins The biggest surprise this week: learning that my kitchen has been completely uninsulated since it was built.

in the wet wall Not a ton of visible change this week.

Edison labs #1 A noisy and messy week here – the demo crew came to gut the upstairs bathroom and most of the kitchen.

After a long long period of not believing that this project was ever going to actually happen, we’ve hired a contractor and find ourselves suddenly in the position of not being ready, scrambling to get things in order for demolition to begin this week.

After exactly a year of dormancy, breathing some air into the dead lungs of this site.

A table of contents for all the posts looking at the renovation of our house undertaken in an increasingly large chunk of 2016.