gobbeling

new hardwood floors in our upstairs 'music room!' check out our cool new drum kit! RAWK!
i was going to post the picture of our thanksgiving turkey. although it looked, smelled and tasted great, i am not sure that a picture of a giant roasted bird is very appetizing. the dinner was really delicious and we had about ten people over. shane came down from portland bob from vegas. it was really great hanging out with two dear old friends. the next day the three of us and ashlee treked over to the coast for some relaxation and wave watching. one fun project we undertook was a message in a bottle. the contents consisted of some words of wisdom, one u.s. dollar, a cigar, some cigarettes, matches and shane's e-mail address. i'm pretty sure it went out to sea successfully -- we'll see if it ever washes up.

saftey first

mandatory saftey meeting this friday. see you under the stars.

asbestos acrimony

weeks have gone by and we've been busy. a wall in the kitchen and an old chimney were taken out. a whopping six types of vinyl flooring were found as we moved down through the floor with our crowbars and circular saws -- revealing the doug fir original. it's like a quasi urban archaeological dig. we plan on refinishing the wood and putting on a nice hard clearcoat.


here is a picture of me taking the bricks out from the old chimney up in our attic.







ashlee did a spooktakular job decorating for halloween and we had a small group of friends over on halloween as we passed out candy to the little kids. there was even one little boy who was actually afraid or our front door with multiple black lights fluorescing green and purple spider webs.


one collaboration i was proud of was a 'pumpkin-man' scene in the front yard complete with a decapitated head and pumpkin guts on the knife and severed head.





definitely a calvin and hobbes insipired idea





today i'm excited to be putting in our newly purchased oak hardwood flooring upstairs. ahslee's grandpa, melvin, will be over to help my hopeless soul. i can't thank him enough, he's been such a wonderful help to us.






here is a 'before' picture of the upstairs. stay tuned for the transformation pictures, complete with a newly purchased perl 5-piece drum kit with zildjian cymbals! whoo hoo!








union breaktime... check out my wintertime beard...