tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61990462012-02-03T04:59:42.001-05:00casa malapropa journal of sorts recording the musings of a difficult bookseller.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-78615282125651765282007-10-25T12:02:00.001-04:002007-10-25T12:02:57.679-04:00Find me now at the new Rabelais Books Blog.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-68045952112619705462007-06-29T17:24:00.000-04:002007-06-29T17:32:39.631-04:00Wake to Songbirds, Wake to Crows photographs by Jonathan LevittThis coming Friday, July 6th, we're opening our first exhibition at Rabelais, photographs by Jonathan Levitt. Levitt's two series of photographs explore cycles of dream and sustenance. "It was not long ago when people didn't leave. The stoves, the roast, the eggs and the yellow fat, the wool and the milk and the mutton. All breathing don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-88289915184083983402007-06-28T18:19:00.000-04:002007-06-28T18:45:18.559-04:00Life beyond the storeWhile the store occupies most of our time, we still make time for the important things like digging in the dirt, waiting for the appliance repairman and, occassionally, making new friends. This past week we put in extra time eating and drinking with some new folks, including a fantastic Portuguese meal and wines at the home of M. and B. and a needed relaxing evening at the don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-33224801442989265782007-06-15T13:36:00.000-04:002007-06-15T13:53:11.691-04:00some interesting recent readingBeyond the huge pile of books currently in reading rotation on the bed table, there's some interesting reading on these days. The Zagat's (of restaurant guide fame) have an op-ed in today's NYTimes about the dearth of real Chinese food in America, and predict a new age of tastes and techniques when real Chinese finally his our shores. Reason has a review of Barry don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-82472948387133949882007-06-08T11:38:00.000-04:002007-06-08T11:44:57.309-04:00GOOD BREAD IS BACK A contemporary history of French bread, the way it is made, and the people who make it. Steven Laurence Kaplan's new history of the decline, fall and rise of French bread is reviewed at length in the new issue of the Time Literary Supplement. The review itself is a good, quick introduction to the history of bread in France and to its decline due to the increasing don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-58411105672152465392007-05-30T19:10:00.000-04:002007-05-30T19:34:36.096-04:00A Rabelais updateNew things are flying at us fast and furious since we've opened. The shop is humming along now with new things arriving all the time. Initial frustrations with new book distributors have given way to regular reorders and new shipments. The press has generated solid interest in those outside the initial circle of highly motivated food professionals, and we're already getting to don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-50869430675070716012007-04-27T17:54:00.000-04:002007-04-27T18:20:25.263-04:00thanks for the press!Our first two weeks have been even better than planned, thanks to generous coverage from the Portland press and some independent bloggers. Our first mention was by the secretive author of the Portland Pssst, followed by local bartender and booze historian John Myers on his must-read local blog, The Thirstin' Howl (scroll down to 'When the Lord Closes a Door' for the story). don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-6724083389225580902007-04-26T12:19:00.000-04:002007-04-26T12:30:13.105-04:00Rabelais is open!Finally we've opened. Smack in the middle of two snow storms, two blackouts, the New York Book Fair, a quick appraisal job in New Mexico, and much more, we've managed to pull it together, tear down the brwon paper on the windows and let in the public. Initial response has been terrific, especially from Portland's professional food community. More news soon, but here are a few don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-73846471784085222242007-04-01T23:36:00.000-04:002007-04-02T00:14:13.229-04:00Boston Book Fair ReportSo I'm back from the first of what we hope will be a new annual Spring MARIAB book fair, held at the Bayside Exposition Center in Boston. It's a replacement for the old shows at the Cyclorama, and now managed by Marvin Getman who, in my opinion, did a solid job on a new event. The location is well out of the city proper, but the facility is more than adequate with excellentdon lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-49979386771439289342007-03-12T16:55:00.000-04:002007-03-12T17:08:39.748-04:00rabelais under constructionSo our space for the new shop is under construction, although it's been a great deal easier than our house renovation last year. For the shop, we've only had to remove some plumbing (it was previously a hair salon), demolish two small dividing walls, pull up the floor, move the track lighting and paint the ceiling. Now we're ready to replace the baseboard moldings, don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-25292602048374195172007-02-01T09:01:00.000-05:002007-02-01T09:30:47.391-05:00our new project: RabelaisSo we're opening a bookshop in Portland, ME. Samantha and I have both been pondering the 'what next?' question for some time. We both like what we do, but wanted a different platform from which to do it. Before we moved from Brooklyn to Maine, Samantha left behind her photo editor job to attend the Institute for Culinary Education and earned a degree in Pastry Arts, but don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-72030433016121670932007-01-10T23:54:00.000-05:002007-01-10T23:58:25.986-05:00"How I Met My Wife" by Jack Winter "It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-59579989675538281432007-01-10T23:51:00.000-05:002007-01-10T23:53:00.391-05:00Jack Winter sleepsA wonderful and enigmatic personality has left us. The NY Times obit for comedy writer, world traveler, playwright and frog collector Jack Winter spells it out.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-22299498429512094862007-01-08T13:08:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:36:10.065-05:00a visit to PapermaniaThis Saturday, Samantha and I made the three hour drive from Maine to Hartford, CT to attend the giant ephemera fair called Papermania. We got there a bit after opening, but spent the entire day browsing through booths piled high with unusual items: books, prints, photographs, advertising art and postcards. In the end, we bought two big bags of items, and could have spent don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-81514730158193665632006-12-24T14:16:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:07:00.753-05:00a few of my favorite blogsIn the spirit of the holiday, I'd like to send a thank you to a few of my favorite blogs and sites. I turn to these not so much for information (I have separate list to thank for that - perhaps later), but for the quality of the experience, some thoughtful reflection, and sometimes both. Giornale Nuovo, is the work of one Mr H., a youngish man living in Sweden with a don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-73725140062923789902006-12-21T14:53:00.000-05:002006-12-21T15:13:04.257-05:00Poet Piergiorgio Welby gets his wish Piergiorgio, Italian poet dies with dignity. Conservatives do what they can to stifle that dignity, and demand the arrest of the doctor who sedated him and removed him from his hospital respirator. Piergiorgio has been blogging about his desire to control his own destiny for some time, logging over 1000 entries by tapping out the words with a stick on a don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-19196376992325016442006-12-21T09:11:00.000-05:002006-12-21T09:15:05.179-05:00Adam Bellow, pamphleteer for the 21st centuryCan the pamphlet bring ideas back into publishing for the masses? Saul Bellow's son Adam thinks so, and looks to Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books as a model. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-78276173174636204132006-12-21T08:52:00.000-05:002006-12-21T08:54:37.729-05:00"We've learned nothing in 12,000 years" Picasso on paleolithic cave art, in Gregory Curtis' new book, The Cave Painters. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1166200505446605812006-12-15T11:32:00.000-05:002006-12-15T11:35:05.446-05:00Borges manuscripts turn upRelief is in the air in Cambridge as Lame Duck's two lost Borges manuscripts turn up tucked into another item. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1166199615743440242006-12-15T10:29:00.000-05:002006-12-15T11:28:58.530-05:00Volbracht's Myko LibriEvery so often a bibliography comes along that's not just a handy tool. The great books on books can be beautiful objects in themselves, beautifully designed and a pleasure to pore over. Jurgen Holstein's recent survey of modern dust jacket design, and the multi-volume collection of juveniles, The Children's World of Learning 1480 -1880, published by Antiquariaat Forum come don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1164054597144537032006-11-20T15:19:00.000-05:002006-11-20T15:29:57.163-05:00Ehon: The Artist and the Book in JapanThe New York Public Library has a fantastic new exhibition up currently, titled Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan. Ehon surveys the development of the Japanese picture book, a 1350 year history which began in the eighth century. The survey extends through the Japanese Avant-Garde, including the MAVO movement, through to Anime and the contemporary don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1159544724088497662006-09-29T11:29:00.000-04:002006-09-29T11:45:24.493-04:00you can't play chess in flore...Andrew Hussey's new book, Paris: the Secret History will be available this November, and it sounds like a good one. I might venture a bet that Paris has been the most profiled city in book lore (with new York and London as the other obvious contenders). The book claims to tell the history of the City of Light through its "whores and beggars... hustlers and don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1159448963995951692006-09-28T09:02:00.000-04:002006-09-28T09:09:24.010-04:00leonardo on paper The Victoria & Albert Museum has a new exhibition, focussing on Leonardo Da Vinci's thought process as expressed on paper. The drawings include anatomical studies, mathematical expressions and designs for machinery.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1158956413422203662006-09-22T16:14:00.000-04:002006-10-01T17:26:25.830-04:00a new collected camus Gallimard has issued an expanded and corrected complete works of Camus in its venerable Bibliotheque de la Pleiade series. Robin Buss has a review in the TLS.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1158935071997158752006-09-22T10:12:00.000-04:002006-09-22T10:24:32.036-04:00sweet pagesTim Richardson is the author of a history of confectionery entitled Sweets: History of a Temptation,(in America the title has been appropriately dumbed down to Sweets: A History of Candy) The British Library has a short interview and an illustrated selection of his favorite books from the history of sweets.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1157916207369203132006-09-10T15:00:00.000-04:002006-09-10T21:37:54.673-04:00more about haying We have about seven or eight acres of open pasture. It's been used for hay in the past, but was quickly headed toward becoming a field of weeds and, eventually, a woods again. Our neighbor Dave was kind enough to let me use his Farmall A with a sickle bar mower to cut the grass. Originally my plan was just to cut it before the weeds went to seed, and let it rot in the field as don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1157725477317507632006-09-08T10:10:00.000-04:002006-09-08T12:59:09.360-04:00bluebirds / hay fieldsFall comes early here, and with it the bird migrations. Ducks and geese are frequent transients, but we've been waiting for the bluebirds. They were here last year, right after we moved in, playfully picking grasshoppers and crickets out of the high grass. But this year we've cut the grass around the house, and hayed the two pastures we could easily get farm equipment into.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1155610764790170272006-08-14T22:56:00.000-04:002006-08-14T22:59:24.810-04:00Grisha's solution to Poincare's problemA brief article in the NYTimes about the elusive Grisha's solution of Poincare's problem, and it's implications for mathematics.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1155217309410934772006-08-10T09:29:00.000-04:002006-08-10T09:43:52.220-04:00futurist visual poetry at the GettyA Tumultous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists opened this week at the Getty Center. It runs through January 7, 2007.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1153673584166035862006-07-23T12:46:00.000-04:002006-07-23T12:53:41.986-04:00what I seek in a bibliographyMy personal library is partially posted on librarything.com, and I've had an interesting inquiry about the Gabler Bibliography of English language wine books, Wine Into Words, 2nd Edition. I have given the book a rating of 3 stars in my library, and another lister wanted to know why not higher. I think the Gabler book is a fine book, and there is nothing else out don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1152278526906086282006-07-07T09:16:00.000-04:002006-07-07T09:26:21.700-04:00now all of your favorite classical works in one handy volume!The Weekly Standard has a review of a new collection of samples from the Loeb Classical library, along with a short history of the imprint. Already a resource for the inquiring "everyman" more than the classically educated scholar, the library now needs a one-volume edition to reach what passes for the educated today."The source of thedon lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1152106787438411982006-07-05T09:28:00.000-04:002006-07-05T09:39:47.456-04:00Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson has died. Never far from my CD player, Lieberson's recording of Bach's Cantatas BWV 82 and 199, has been a favorite piece of music of mine for the last few years, both a consolation and a provocation to deeper feeling. The NY Times obit today reviews her career."...her shattering performances several years ago in two Bach cantatas for solo voice and orchestradon lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151865535121611052006-07-02T14:31:00.000-04:002006-07-05T09:40:26.320-04:00ferlinghetti aseaThere's a nice short profile of and interview with Lawrence Ferlighetti in today's Guardian. In it he describes his life on a sub-chaser in WWII. "Any smaller than us you weren't a ship, you were a boat. But we could order anything a battleship could order so we got an entire set of the Modern Library. We had all the classics stacked everywhere all over the ship, including the don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151676595047942902006-06-30T10:06:00.000-04:002006-06-30T20:08:35.830-04:00tut a tipplerIt should be no surprise that the king who lived one of the grandest lives ever turns out to be a red wine drinker. I wonder if his bottles (giant clay casks I imagine) had pictures of cute animals on the labels?don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151675586027483912006-06-30T09:43:00.000-04:002006-06-30T09:57:21.093-04:00the chicken dietOur twelve hens are settling in down in the coop. The girls grow visibly larger almost daily, and have a list of new tricks. They now roost on the roof of the nesting boxes, on the ladder leading to the door (and the outside world), on the concrete block ledge that runs around the perimeter of the coop - just about everywhere but on the roosting bars I built for them. Joan Jett,don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151599874797433312006-06-29T12:39:00.000-04:002006-06-30T09:59:01.320-04:00time for a rant Can someone please explain to me the benefit to a company in lying to its customers? In the process of renovating our house, we've had to deal with lots of suppliers, and a friend of ours who does terrific tile work has acquired the tile and fixtures for our various jobs, and done most of the installation work as well. But the suppliers he's forced to work with are incredible. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151349117984584592006-06-26T14:57:00.000-04:002006-06-26T15:11:58.000-04:00accumulationsWhen we moved to a farm, with four outbuildings and enough land for a significant tire dump, we thought it would be the end of 'too much stuff'. Instead we've filled the garage barn with building supplies, a lawn tractor, tile saw, band saw, paint, and 'organic' farm chemicals. The older barn is filled with several cords of firewood, furniture we don't yet have a place for in the don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151073837834140362006-06-23T09:39:00.000-04:002006-06-23T14:21:10.416-04:00anatomy of a struggling book fair, and some suggestionsSome people have asked for a report on the Portland Book Fair, so here goes... I can't help but say that the fair seems to be on its last legs, with both dealer and customer attendance down, and none of the energy required to keep going in this difficult market.I sold only a few dollars worth of books above the relatively inexpensive booth don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1151069899846091572006-06-23T09:26:00.000-04:002006-06-23T14:18:28.946-04:00lightning, chickensOnce again it rains. We've had time enough to build an ark but have been otherwise distracted. Tuesday night our house was hit by lightning, which knocked out the phone service, killed the answering machine, modem and wireless router, and seems to have damaged the wall oven as well. I finally got the phone service back yesterday, and then the internet. Despite the bad weather don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1149537782092810372006-06-05T15:38:00.000-04:002006-06-20T14:56:16.670-04:00two weekends in New Hampshire Two weekends, two weeks apart, and nothing in common but rain.Samantha and I spent a Saturday driving through last month's torrential rain in order to attend the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival. Held on the grounds of State Fair, the event was populated with soggy sheep, llamas, apalcas, goats, rabbits and their relative enthusiasts. Appropriately, the whole don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1147874732096910962006-05-17T10:00:00.000-04:002006-05-17T10:05:53.010-04:00conceptbooks.comAfter months in limbo, my website, conceptbooks.com is back up and running. It should grow quickly over the next weeks and months, but to see some of my inventory check the new arrivals or catalogues page. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1147873802014522112006-05-17T09:04:00.000-04:002006-05-17T09:50:02.260-04:00the vanishing legal padIn the early 1990's I was lucky enough to be called to a small light manufacturing building in Lower Manhattan. I was there to look at some old equipment, perhaps to acquire it for an organization I worked for at the time, a not-for-profit which kept older printing equipment (mostly letterpress printing presses) available for artists and fine printers. The business we don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1145332648824174662006-04-17T23:39:00.001-04:002006-04-17T23:57:28.826-04:00mining the shelves and fileboxesThose of you who know me, know that about half of my book selling work consists of appraisals and the inventory of literary and artistic archives in preparation for their sale or donation to an institution. Much of this work comes to me through my working relationship with another dealer of rare books, and I'm somewhat restricted in what I can discuss out of don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1144790445438372132006-04-11T17:12:00.000-04:002006-04-11T17:30:40.896-04:00new acquisitionsThe book shopping never stops around here, even when I'm mostly busy at home. Some recent acquisitions (for personal consumption - not resale) include: a collection of essays by the historian of archaic and classical Greece, J.P. Vernant, Mortals & Immortals, Antonio Lobo Antunes' The Natural Order of Things, the Lobel and Page edition of Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, and poet don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1143926471994475902006-04-01T16:19:00.000-05:002006-04-01T16:21:11.996-05:00don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1143924411700885682006-04-01T15:31:00.000-05:002006-04-01T16:18:53.363-05:00global warmingIt's hard to complain about the consumption of hydrocarbons when I'm reaping the benefits here in Maine with two 70+ degree days in a row in March! I might feel differently if I were an ice fisherman or snowmobiler - two groups of people who spent their winters' extracting personal property from icy water at the bottom of lakes. The warm weather brings with it the end of sap don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1143038522764295302006-03-22T09:25:00.000-05:002006-04-01T16:11:46.493-05:00an office & a scheduleWith the house now liveable, and basic items finding their way to appropriate new locations, I've begun to put my office together, unpacking reference books and office supplies and a few books to research and hopefully sell. Some months back, I had written in these pages about the fear of packing my library; the idea that I might never again see some of these old friends. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1141916731661568102006-03-09T10:05:00.000-05:002006-03-09T10:05:31.666-05:00both old and new style buckets. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1141916388028751002006-03-09T09:42:00.000-05:002006-03-09T10:03:31.236-05:00the sap buckets are upJust a week or two ago, the folks from Giles Family Farm came by to hang sap buckets on our sugar maples. We had heard that local homeowners let them tap their trees in exchange for a bit of the final product and some communal sharing. For days now the buckets have been empty save for a few drops of what I assumed were rain water. But yesterday a multi-generational crew fromdon lindgrennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1141915315781689402006-03-09T09:41:00.000-05:002006-03-09T09:41:55.826-05:00collecting sap. one of seven or so trees now hung with buckets. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1141141603683308622006-02-28T10:46:00.000-05:002006-02-28T10:46:43.690-05:00don gray; mobius poem, being a four dimensional concrete sculpture happening don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1141141056888006152006-02-28T10:02:00.000-05:002006-02-28T10:37:36.966-05:00first book fair in a whileI exhibited again this year at the Greenwich Village Antiquarian Book Fair and had a great time and a very good fair sales wise. This small, collegial, neighborhood fair has become one of the better fairs of the year for me. Sales were strong on Friday night and Sunday, and I met a few interesting people on Saturday. Most of sales were squarely in the avant-gardes, don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1139762492888019712006-02-12T11:05:00.000-05:002006-02-12T11:41:32.956-05:00some recent readingThe last 30 days have brought a final push on the renovation, the arrival of movers with the contents of our storage unit, and a bit of vacation travel. Despite all this, I've been reading a bit. Before our move into the farmhouse, we packed up the contents of the apartment in Kennebunk, a place I've enjoyed greatly for the last five years and filled with books. Reread Walterdon lindgrennoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137871033360570972006-01-21T14:08:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:19:05.370-05:00books?I'm a little behind things these days, having been preoccupied with our ongoing renovation. But I've learned that Joyce Godsey has been busy creating a blog linked to the Bibliophile newsgroup, as well as one of her own. She was nice enough to link to Casa Malaprop, which will surely result in at leat one person clicking through, only to ask, "what the heck does this have to do with books?"don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137870372622413292006-01-21T14:06:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:06:12.623-05:00The living room / dining room nexus. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137870302729776482006-01-21T14:05:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:05:02.730-05:00Finally! something in the house that smells good - melting chocolate. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137870192375122552006-01-21T14:03:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:03:12.380-05:00Samantha takes the appliances out for a test drive. Brownies on the way! don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137870161542360752006-01-21T14:02:00.001-05:002006-01-21T14:02:41.546-05:00Samantha's been busy painting the floors. She grew tired of the white walls, so we've gone far in the other direction with the floors. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137870161304942872006-01-21T14:02:00.000-05:002006-01-21T14:02:41.310-05:00Raleigh in the living room. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1137869889888612262006-01-21T13:58:00.000-05:002006-01-21T13:58:09.940-05:00Finally got the stove hooked up and operational, with the new hood and squirrel proof vent on the outside. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1136150420750090832006-01-01T16:20:00.000-05:002006-01-01T16:20:20.756-05:00it's amazing what some paint can do - dining room china cabinet. thanks to Bud and Dennis. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1136150346644454652006-01-01T16:19:00.000-05:002006-01-01T16:19:06.646-05:00Dave routs the hole for the sink. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1136150304048975622006-01-01T16:18:00.000-05:002006-01-01T16:18:24.136-05:00the first set of cabinets, with drawers and doors. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133815194368439202005-12-05T15:39:00.000-05:002005-12-05T15:39:54.373-05:00Raleigh in the snow. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133815105392187042005-12-05T15:38:00.000-05:002005-12-05T15:38:25.393-05:00Still needs work. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133815075995274902005-12-05T15:37:00.001-05:002005-12-05T15:37:56.000-05:00Lights on the garage barn. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133815025406270202005-12-05T15:37:00.000-05:002005-12-05T15:37:05.410-05:00an open barn door. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133814976375238932005-12-05T15:36:00.000-05:002005-12-05T15:36:16.430-05:00A bit of snow. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133712353950064912005-12-04T11:05:00.000-05:002005-12-04T11:05:53.953-05:00Samantha's wood pile. The stacks are about six feet high. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133712295095851682005-12-04T11:04:00.001-05:002005-12-04T11:04:55.100-05:00Two diagonal suppoprts - one in the foreground and one in the background. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133712242964160552005-12-04T11:04:00.000-05:002005-12-04T11:04:02.970-05:00The rotten and cracked supprt beam. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133712234311138242005-12-04T11:03:00.000-05:002005-12-04T11:03:54.310-05:00The new suppoprt beam. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133712123960229132005-12-04T10:59:00.000-05:002005-12-04T11:02:03.960-05:00some words for a changeIt’s been a long time since I blogged here with anything but pictures. But time has been lacking and my mind hasn’t been able to handle much but the picture uploads. We’ve had the house now for more than three months, and we’re pushing hard to be in before the first of the New Year, which is less than 30 days away. Yikes.As I write this sheet rock is finally going up in don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133392308945721852005-11-30T18:11:00.000-05:002005-11-30T18:11:48.950-05:00a ceiling beam with "v-groove" for hidden wiring. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133392232193499832005-11-30T18:10:00.000-05:002005-12-04T10:59:20.863-05:00cutting parts for the kitchen beams (notice all the nice notches!). don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133392183277722522005-11-30T18:09:00.001-05:002005-11-30T18:09:43.283-05:00the heat mat installed. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133392152880287572005-11-30T18:09:00.000-05:002005-11-30T18:09:12.886-05:00the heat mat sits rolled up in the shower. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133392120090540022005-11-30T18:08:00.000-05:002005-11-30T18:08:40.126-05:00finished with the shower tile (on the left), Mike prepares the floor for the heat mat. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133126049855397872005-11-27T16:14:00.000-05:002005-11-27T16:14:09.860-05:00more floor, almost done. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133126016212733632005-11-27T16:13:00.000-05:002005-11-27T16:13:36.216-05:00a new floor in the den. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133125781010923812005-11-27T16:09:00.000-05:002005-11-27T16:09:41.046-05:00the kitchen ceiling restrapped and ready for sheetrock. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030729876402872005-11-26T13:45:00.000-05:002005-11-26T13:45:29.880-05:00Raleigh watches from a safe distance. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030684137931752005-11-26T13:44:00.000-05:002005-11-26T13:44:44.143-05:00The doors and windows are finally in. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030627498361822005-11-26T13:43:00.001-05:002005-11-26T13:43:47.503-05:00Cutting more frames. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030596395907832005-11-26T13:43:00.000-05:002005-11-26T13:43:16.400-05:00Dave replaces the rotten sill under the window-to-be. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030551880499992005-11-26T13:42:00.000-05:002005-11-26T13:42:31.886-05:00I level the doors on the inside. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1133030516865989072005-11-26T13:41:00.000-05:002005-11-26T13:41:56.900-05:00Dennis and Josh help with the doors. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1131233526622234332005-11-05T18:32:00.000-05:002005-11-05T18:32:06.623-05:00Samantha's finished front door in handsome blue. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1131233488717546102005-11-05T18:31:00.000-05:002005-11-05T18:31:28.723-05:00Samantha's first coat of blue paint on the back door. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1131233445899115492005-11-05T18:30:00.000-05:002005-11-05T18:30:45.906-05:00the same frame, showing the new flooring extending out onto the sill. don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1131233383055440092005-11-05T18:29:00.000-05:002005-11-05T18:29:43.133-05:00the header and jacks for the frame for our new doors in the living room. (note new doors and giant pile of debris just outside). don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130801208957705522005-10-31T18:26:00.001-05:002005-10-31T18:26:48.963-05:00the installation completed don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130801177292723342005-10-31T18:26:00.000-05:002005-10-31T18:26:17.296-05:00the new window with solid header and battleship strong framing don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130801123755021232005-10-31T18:25:00.000-05:002005-10-31T18:25:23.763-05:00Bud and I examine the original framing don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130801087805132662005-10-31T18:24:00.000-05:002005-10-31T18:24:47.813-05:00the old window comes out don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130801028637962052005-10-31T18:21:00.000-05:002005-10-31T18:23:48.650-05:00a new kitchen windowNot nearly as difficult as I expected, our new kitchen window installation was completed today. Lot's of heavy framing, compensating for everything else in the kitchen being off-level, and a bit improvisation is all it took. Bud was a big help, and our watts line to Dave's boatshop for last minute advice was invaluable.don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130536748355757242005-10-28T17:59:00.000-04:002005-10-28T17:59:08.360-04:00sam makes a fire - walls stripped back for new windows don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130536707726419302005-10-28T17:58:00.000-04:002005-10-28T17:58:27.733-04:00new wall in bathroom with switches don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130536672894235872005-10-28T17:57:00.001-04:002005-10-28T17:57:52.900-04:00mike roughs in the shower for tile don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6199046.post-1130536635408069402005-10-28T17:57:00.000-04:002005-10-28T17:57:15.413-04:00the kitchen fully gutted. the window to the right was removed today don lindgrennoreply@blogger.com0