Sheetrock started going up quickly last week and it looks great.  We had hoped to keep more of the plaster in respect to the age of the home but you work with what you got, turns out there aren’t many craftsmen working with plaster in Raleigh.  We also got the cabinet and appliances ordered so…

Here are the pictures of the shed.  Thanks to my family and Matt Lanner, we have a decent shed that stays dry! I have also attached other pictures of the primed house ready to paint.  It was exciting to see this layer, what Andy said looked like a ghost of a house, because it was…

In actuality the white is alabaster but Raekwon never talked about alabaster Wallabies.  That last line probably missed the intended audience for this blog by a longshot and is the reason Kate should be responsible for these postings. The house is painted!  We now have a blue house, and a blue porch, and blue cement…

While much of downtown Raleigh was busy removing fallen trees left by the massive tornado last month, Kate and I were busy cutting down perfectly healthy standing trees, albeit with a slightly guilty consciences.  Finally got my heirloom chainsaw back and proceeded to open up the backyard with hopes of starting from scratch with the…