floorboards (she hates gourds)

Melvin and Hannah helps us out on putting together our kitchen floor. Thanks guys

best albums 2007

album art for bill calahan's, woke up on a whaleheart











top 10 of 2007

artists:
bill calahan
white stripes
st vincient
grinderman
okkervil river
thurston moore
deerhunter
various, "i'm not there" snoundtrack
the blow
arcade fire

honorable mentions
feist
lcd soundsystem
spoon
battles


watch annie clark shred in this video, she's amazing!

when a tree falls...

...when a tree falls on a house and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? hell yes it does! it makes the sound of cash registers cha-chinging from the insurance money. and here we have our roof back. those cranky old doug-firs did there best, but thanks to state farm and bill, tony and guys at mastercraft construction we got out roof back

sunnyside

some more pictures of the trusses from different views, a shot of our huge 5-foot garden window from the backyard and ashlee presiding like an angel. we had a sunroom put onto the house -- notice the large windows. with the trees that crushed our house gone, we have a pretty open sky to the southwest, so we figured we should take advantage of it. as bob pajich remarked, 'oh, looks like your new opium den." -okay, put me on the fda shortrack to get it going!

raindrops keep falling...

sissor trusses are amazing! we now have almost 17ft of ceiling at the apex. much thanks to ace-architect, pat donaldson, up in portland with the spiffy suggestion. the rise of the roof will also match the front of the house, so it may actuallly look like a real house instead of the dilapedated tetris pattern of old.

back from the dead

well, it's been a very very long time, but the anxiety and depression of our destroyed house was unbearable, so we've waited a long time to update this blog with any relevant news. of course a little laziness crept in and we have had some progress in the last few months. i'll fast forward through it as if it happened in a few days instead of ONE YEAR.

here are pictures of the exterior walls going up -- our first signs of progress after problems were found with the foundation, which kept any repairs from happening until the city could inspect, and engineers could devise..

Albums of the Year

I think it is required that if you have a blog you have to have a year end top 10 of some sort. So here are my "Top 10 Albums of the Year."

1. The Black Angels- Passover
2. Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
3. The Thermals- The Body, The Blood, The Machine
4. Camera Obscura- Let's Get Out of The Country
5. Joanna Newsom- Y's
6. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat
7. Ramblin' Jack Elliot- I Stand Alone
8. His Name is Alive- Detrola
9. William Elliot Whitmore- Songs of the Blackbird
10. Gil Mantera's Party Dream- Bloodsongs

The new releases by Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, M. Ward, The Hold Stready, The Mountain Goats, and Beck are most likley awesome as well but I did not listen to them enough to be able to put them on my list.