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.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

The Turning Point




One cannot always pinpoint the exact moment when a home improvement project shifts from removing the old to rebuilding the new, but it is a glorious feeling when the good “stuff” going in begins to outweigh the bad “stuff” being removed. After the ditches were dug, the debris was removed, and the pests were zapped by chemicals, cool things started to happen. Almost every day something was created that brought our house one step closer to being inhabitable. Sometimes these accomplishments were more obvious than others (such as new framing that allowed us to imagine that we were in an actual room), but progress was being made. This was encouraging because renovating a house was just so tiring – we needed a glimmer of light at the end of that tunnel.

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