Mommy gets busy with the ShopVac... and casting the evil eye. You can almost read her mind: "This is all your fault you, you, Handyman you."

This picture is actually from a while back. The project and daily life has gotten in the way of web updates. Has it been over a month!? However long it's been, it's been a crawl through the fire. There have definitely been some of those "What the !@#$ was I thinking" moments but then I remembered. I fell in love with this house and love knows no nothing no how.

...and when the heart moves, so do we.

The move was pain in stages. A few weeks ago we moved all our non-essentials such as books, records, bookcases, guitars, winter clothes, etc. into storage in the barn. This was of course after Cybele had efficiently packed and labelled everything. At times I wondered whether the tired 18th century barn could take everything we were giving it.

But even the essentials are a lot and we, unfortunately, slacked-off on the organizing and packing before phase 2 of the move.

The move into the house was innumerable trips filling up the pickup, driving it the 100 feet between the rental and the Chez, and then unloading it again. It all couldn't have been done without the help of our neighbor Tyler Murdoch who put his strong back to work for us.

Nevertheless we're finally in!

Here is the unfinished kitchen with new gas range (yay!) and hardware just installed on the Ikea (put-them-together-yourself) cabinets. I've yet to put the doors on the wall cabs and as you can see the painting got interrupted by father time. But the space feels good and I'm happy with my kitchen design so far. It will need some tweaking to be sure, but it's roomy and efficient.

The Livingroom with some life added despite the lack of a finished ceiling.

The ceiling can't be finished until the upstairs bath is plumbed. Time again won the race to get this done before the move.

The defacto bedrooms are tight quarters but will eventually turn into office/workspace/guestrooms when the upstairs is complete.

For now, we're cozy, comfortable, and sleeping well in the cool nights of a New Hampshire summer.

© 2006 James Graham

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