6.24.2008
Red paint.
daily weigh-in: 128.0 lb
running on: 7 hours of sleep
The next project on our list of home improvement tasks is a big one! We need to paint the exterior of our house. Lucky for Halsey I'm a designer... I downloaded Benjamin Moore's swatches from their "architects and designers" website, selected some colors for our house, and created a collage for Halsey to see, which included a preview of what our back porch might look like in Harvard CRIMSON!
running on: 7 hours of sleep
The next project on our list of home improvement tasks is a big one! We need to paint the exterior of our house. Lucky for Halsey I'm a designer... I downloaded Benjamin Moore's swatches from their "architects and designers" website, selected some colors for our house, and created a collage for Halsey to see, which included a preview of what our back porch might look like in Harvard CRIMSON!
Labels: DIY, home improvement
6.15.2008
Maine event.
daily weigh-in: 134.0 lb
running on: 8 hours of sleep
I've been meaning to blog about a few trips to Maine that Halsey and I went on this month. We went up to his family's home over the first weekend of June to prepare for the arrival of a new float. Last year the wood float that Halsey & his family/friends designed & built 15 years ago finally suffered a fantastic failure, which meant a new float had to be built or purchased this year. Halsey spent lots of time researching and considering a fancy fiberglass type of float to replace the damaged wood float, and eventually his family made the decision to go forward with that idea. The fiberglass float is about 4X lighter than a wood float of the same size, which means it might be possible for Halsey and his family to pull it out of the water each winter by themselves instead of storing it at a boat yard, where it might be subject to damage as the tide brings it up and down each day. A second advantage of the fiberglass float is that it may be more durable and last a lot longer than a wood float.
Here are some pics from our first trip, which involved a lot of preparation work down at the pier, and some animal viewings in and around the house:
Here is the set of photos from our second trip showing the two day process of getting the float off of the delivery truck and attached to the pier!
Day 1:
Day 2:
The end!
Of course I couldn't resist taking a few pictures before we caught the ferry to come back home:
running on: 8 hours of sleep
I've been meaning to blog about a few trips to Maine that Halsey and I went on this month. We went up to his family's home over the first weekend of June to prepare for the arrival of a new float. Last year the wood float that Halsey & his family/friends designed & built 15 years ago finally suffered a fantastic failure, which meant a new float had to be built or purchased this year. Halsey spent lots of time researching and considering a fancy fiberglass type of float to replace the damaged wood float, and eventually his family made the decision to go forward with that idea. The fiberglass float is about 4X lighter than a wood float of the same size, which means it might be possible for Halsey and his family to pull it out of the water each winter by themselves instead of storing it at a boat yard, where it might be subject to damage as the tide brings it up and down each day. A second advantage of the fiberglass float is that it may be more durable and last a lot longer than a wood float.Here are some pics from our first trip, which involved a lot of preparation work down at the pier, and some animal viewings in and around the house:
Here is the set of photos from our second trip showing the two day process of getting the float off of the delivery truck and attached to the pier!
Day 1:
Day 2:
The end!
Of course I couldn't resist taking a few pictures before we caught the ferry to come back home:
