Tag: Icehouse Rehabilitation
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Move-In Begins
At last, icehouse move-in begins! We’re not yet 100% finished with the icehouse rehab, but we’re close. Really, really close. Inside, at least. Outside, less so. Plenty of hardscaping and landscaping still in the works. But the interior is super close. I need to put the finishing touches on my loft cabinetry, and Peter needs…
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Ceiling Fan Reveal
Aerial photography fascinates, in part, I think, because it’s slightly superhuman. An omniscient perspective, removed from the familiar, human scale world we inhabit. For a moment we enjoy an eye in the sky vantage that augments our reality. This ceiling fan haiku explores another perhaps tangentially related experience of wind — both natural wind and…
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Drawers and Cabinet Doors
As we advance upon the finish line — sometimes hurtling, sometimes inchworming — each of us is exercising our agility, stretching our purviews, and adapting to the evolving needs of the icehouse rehabilitation project. And, with the interior almost complete, I tip my gratitude cap to Peter whose been fabricating drawers and cabinet doors on-site…
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Hydroseeding Icehouse Environs
A quick post this evening to thank Bob and Eric for hydroseeding the soon-to-be-grass lawns around Rosslyn’s icehouse. It’s been a disruptive 10+ months during rehabilitation, and given the site work and construction staging, debris, etc. we’ve become accustomed to mud, mud, mud. But today — at looong last — we begin the regreening. Hydroseeding?…
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Gully Washer
Good golly, it’s a gully washer! Lately it seems that this slang term for a sudden cloudburst (and the inevitable inundation that follows) has come up in more conversations than not. Sooo many gulley washers… Here’s what this afternoon’s installment looked like from the screen porch as I watched, concerned that all of the site…
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Post-Construction Sitework Begins
Yes, the rainstorms continue to batter us. A nice day yesterday – a welcome reprieve that permitted us to squeeze in some boating during my niece’s visit — but by this afternoon the inundation had resumed. Not super helpful on the same day that post-construction sitework begins… It’s a welcome site to have Bob Kaleita…
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Hammocking
A day-ender, after builders and painter have headed home, before sundown but feeling the first flush of a refreshing temperature drop, talking, debriefing the day, Carley stretched in the shady grass almost asleep, hammocking… For the third season in a row we’ve enjoyed group hammocking among the still adolescent stand of maple trees growing between…
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Grateful, Part I
I woke up feeling grateful, thankful… (Source: callmestevieray & Connor Price, “Grateful”) I woke up feeling grateful to everyone who has invested their time, skills, ideas, creativity, patience, laughter, and goodwill into Rosslyn’s icehouse rehabilitation. Such a tiny building, and yet sooo many people have collaborated and contributed. So today I pause for some overdue…
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1st Floor Flooring Finished
Spellbinding sunset this evening, witnessed firsthand from Rosslyn’s icehouse where only an hour or so before Tony had added the final coat of sealer. At last I can celebrate: the 1st floor flooring is finished. Eureka! For the mixed species, ash and elm, variable witdth flooring we’re applying six coats with light, fine grit sanding…
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Icehouse Stairway Update
Spoiler Alert: the icehouse stairway is not 100% complete. Yet. But it will be. Soon. I hope! There’s still an itty-bitty electrical wrapup (finishing up the riser lighting installation), but the main hurdle — one that’s been delayed again and again since winter — is the banister. Handrails and balusters. Everything’s been fabricated for a…
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Finishing Floor & Staircase
Finishing, not finished. Yet. But soon. I hope! The icehouse main floor and staircase are slinking slowly toward completion. Sashaying? No. Sauntering. Slowly sauntering. But at last I can say that we’re finishing the floor and the staircase in Rosslyn’s icehouse. We’ve been using Safecoat® Polyureseal BP to seal our hardwood floors for about twenty…
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Eastern Milksnake
This morning we spotted another nonvenomous Eastern Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum). While gathering limestone for the small stone walls that will delineate sloped flowerbeds behind Rosslyn’s icehouse, Tony discovered this youngster under a pile of rocks. Startled but gentle, this colorfully mottled snake seemed as perplexed by the two of us — and the tractor…