About Us

Sonoma County, California
We are two teachers in love who took on an enormous renovation project over three years ago. In the words of the inspector, "This house has been abused." When we're not educating young minds or working on our place, we are busy with many other interests. Dominic could blog with authority on the following topics: zombie infestations, home-brewing, origami, medieval recreation, and surfing. As for me, my blogging repertoire could include these topics: breastfeeding, guitar for the musically disinclined, bellydancing, and the quest for the perfect matzah ball. This is our story.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

The Trailer





You might be wondering where we were actually living during this process, as it’s pretty clear that it wasn’t in our house. We were renting a very cool and very disco-era double-wide trailer out in the country. The town was great and the rent was cheap, but about six months into our “three months long” project, we had to make a change. We just couldn’t afford to pay bills at two houses anymore. One great thing about parents is that they’re bound by blood (okay, and love too) to take you back time and time again. Dominic and I moved in with my mom and dad, where we received some good food and TLC to fortify us during this phase.

I was teaching and Dominic was becoming a teacher at this time, so we’d do work and school during the day, then work on projects in the evenings and weekends before returning, exhausted, to my parents’ house.

I just had to share the memorable, and very distinct, color/decorating scheme of the trailer – almost everything was avocado green. I think our decorating choices for our new place were sort of a reaction against shag carpet and harvest gold wallpaper.

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