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Basement concrete

October 31, 2010 – UTC

Before the kids went trick-or-treating, we went in the house to see the basement floor. It can be walked-on now, but will be curing for a couple weeks. After that, they’re going to lightly acid wash it to expose some of the aggregate. Before: After: This week they hooked the old boiler back up to get [...]

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Basement floor concrete

October 28, 2010 – UTC

We went to the house for the third time this week. This time we took the kids with us because today they were pouring the concrete in the basement and we wanted to put our handprints in the floor so the people renovating the house in 100 years find it. When we got there, Westlake [...]

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Monkey Puzzle Tree removal

October 27, 2010 – UTC

We took the 9:00a ferry in to see the Monkey Puzzle trees being taken down. We got to the house about 10a and Bartlett Tree Service was about half-done limbing the first tree. By about 1pm the first tree was down to a stump and they were starting the other tree. We left at 2:30p [...]

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Collaborative Lunch

October 26, 2010 – UTC

Today we had a lunch at the house for all the people involved in the house renovation. The architects, interior designers and contractors have worked separately with us as the conduit. Some people hadn’t even met yet. So we wanted to get everyone together at one time, talk and just have a friendly get-together. After [...]

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Belle & Sebastian at Benaroya Hall

October 20, 2010 – UTC

We went to Benaroya Hall to see Belle & Sebastian (name taken from a cartoon, not the names of people in the band). We ran into Peter Johnson and his cousin in the lobby, which was a surprise. He said that Reid and Marissa were also there. I should have expected that. We did see them [...]

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Dinner at Lecösho

October 20, 2010 – UTC

We had dinner before the show at Lecösho, a place we’ve never been. Since we paid for parking at Benaroya Hall, we could walk to the restaurant from the parking garage, just a block west in Harbor Steps. It was a great evening and we caught the end of the sunset from the restaurant. We [...]

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Another house visit

October 20, 2010 – UTC

Since we were going into Seattle for the Belle & Sebastian show, we went to the house to check on progress again. The electrical panel has been moved from the family room area down to the mechanical room below in the basement, the old panel and wall it was on have been removed and both [...]

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Profitable Bailouts

October 20, 2010 – UTC

The US Government’s TARP bailout of the financial institutions has reaped a 8.2% profit, or $25 billion. The people (I’m looking at you Republicans and Tea Party tards) who say that government can’t do anything right don’t know history. And now we can say that they don’t understand math either. The bailout of GM and Chrysler [...]

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Pumpkin Beer and house visit

October 16, 2010 – UTC

This weekend is Elysian’s Pumpkin Beer Festival, so we decided to go into the city today to taste some of the 40 (!) pumpkin beers on tap. I love pumpkin beers. We packed the kids in the car and got on the 12:50p ferry. We stopped at Beer Junction to stock up on some new [...]

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Solution to the Monkey Puzzle

October 13, 2010 – UTC

We submitted our permit application on September 1, we waited patiently but never heard anything about it. Gay called Seattle DPD a few times to find out what the status is and today, got confirmation that we could cut down the Monkey Puzzle trees. They even said we didn’t need a permit: I have reviewed [...]

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