Tales of Homeschool

Much flooring has been laid in the kitchen, although there are bits that still need to be done in the bay window. And all the finishing wor...

"Wow, check out the inside of this dishwasher! It looks like the interior of a Borg cube!" "Nope, definitely Star Wars. You...

Making tacos in a skillet on top of the stove: Rick pointed out that it was exactly 4 weeks since we last made tacos.* I got a little misty-...

Thalia, Annabeth, and I just got home from the Muny -- we went to see Annie. Walked in the house and the kids immediately held their noses ...

A few years ago I read a news story about someone doing something with a gas line in a house, and then leaving the house empty (no people mo...

I'm going through and filling in the gouges in the subfloor left by the ripping up the luon-glue-staples, using cheap wood filler from L...

I've had several hours with no one else at our house today. Which means I've finally had a chance to put something away in all of ...

No one is coming over today to work on the kitchen. Which is exciting because we can have a quiet, dust-free day. But annoying because we ...

After 2 weeks of uproar and pounding we have trim: (In the picture below, the upper cabinet to the right of the window is new -- there wasn...

I've realized that on one hand I can go a long time without a stove, but on the other hand it's really annoying to wash a cutting bo...

We just got back from being out of town for the weekend. We left Friday before the workers were finished, so we didn't get a chance to ...

First, bring the cabinets in boxes into the kitchen: Then the doors are taken off: The cabinets are attached to each other all nicely square...

You know how some cats like to roll in dust? These days the cat can roll in dust without ever leaving the comfort of home: Black cat in whi...

Drywall taping, mudding, sanding. Then another layer of mud, then more sanding. Lots and lots of dust. Also, working lights! The wires are...

Future conversation in our house: "Remember when we were re-doing the kitchen, so we made a fire on the back porch and cooked stuff ove...

After 3 days of work we have an 8 foot ceiling going all the way across our kitchen. Which doesn't seem like a particularly huge accompl...

Another gripping day of construction here. The old fluorescent tubes are gone, leaching their toxic waste into some landfill somewhere (not ...

There are big billowy pieces of plastic in the doorways. Why? I bet there's something really good in there. I wish I could figure out h...