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home renovations

Renovation documenta 1919

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lubbock, renovations

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1929 lubbock cottage, home renovations

Home reno0

The delicacy of filling in and healing up

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1929 lubbock cottage, process

The unfortunate encounter with my own human factor (stupidity) and a plunge router (sort of–designed for making mortise joints) surprisingly still hurts almost two weeks after the fact, yet it is clearly healing. No hamburger hole remains in my finger...

The healing power of the body is pretty amazing

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finger, hands, mundane ramblings, ouch, process

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1929 lubbock cottage, process

The missing hamburger is filling in nicely with a human jelly like substance, though I doubt I will get any swirls of my finger print back. Perhaps I should commit a crime now while the print remains in flux. Dang, I...

perforating mortise learning curve, life lessons + human (stupidity) factor

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festool, finger, life lesson, ouch

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1929 lubbock cottage, process

I won’t lie, this lesson hurt! Sure I know to never align any part of my body in the path of cutting direction. As a matter of fact I spent the entire day after christmas cutting 3/4″ panels for kitchen...

perhaps the neighbors will NOT notice my sewing machine in the driveway. oops.

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archival memory distentions, monsters in the attic, process, sewing

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1929 lubbock cottage, process

i contemplated putting my new sewing machine in my backyard, but that backyard is on the high plains of west texas and receives direct sun all day! It will take a while for the trees and shrubs i have just...

boxed in by asphalt but thriving, my first set of planters

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BOX 13 ArtSpace, functional art, planters, process

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home renovations

when i lived and studio-ed at BOX 13 ArtSpace, I needed green. So harvesting from houston’s industrial waste stream via the Houston Reuse Warehouse, I secured rough hewn oak that in its previous life worked as holders in a pipe...

laundry room revamp process :: not quite done, but close.

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laundry room, renovations

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1929 lubbock cottage

but it is time to set that aside for some art making for an upcoming exhibition.1

Task — watching paint dry

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Photography, renovating, selfie

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1929 lubbock cottage

human, her wolf and the renovation ritual [hot water closet to pantry]

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Dopt (the dog), mundane ramblings, pantry, shadow, walking

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1929 lubbock cottage

plod. each morning and evening, assuming we can find bits of shade, she and i walk the hood. it clears my mind despite the compulsive digital swiping. the sun glares off the screen, i hunt for a shadow to stand...

Punching a hole in the wall! No affect involved.

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1919 she restores, ironing board, lubbock, renovations

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1929 lubbock cottage

Doors sealed up with plastic sheeting to isolate the rest of the house from dust (assume it includes lead dust). First I break out my dremel ultra max. Cut through sheet rock. Then through 1929 plaster. Alas my blade is...

i won’t be bored. let the summer games begin.

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1919 she restores, ironing board, lubbock, renovations

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1929 lubbock cottage

Last summer I pulled this 1929 in wall ironing board system out of the kitchen wall. Now, it is time to peel off the paint, give her a sanding, repainter her and install her into the laundry room wall. YUP....

holiday break has lead to decisions, decisions

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art, cottage, hermitage, process, renovations, she restores

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kathy wash 2012

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This summer I replaced the hermitage, micro-forest and my mini-meadow that sat at the edge of the Sam Houston National Forest for PhD studies, a 1929 cottage and lots of renovations. I am trying to take it back to at...

Sold. On to the next adventure!

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kathy wash 2012

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Soulful puppy making the transition from dog heaven freely chasing rabbits, deer, cows and horses to the life of leashed leisure out in Lubbock. She will adjust (I hope). Goodbye my sweet, sweet hermitage, microforest and minimeadow!0

Up, down, sold (ok, well, under serious contract)

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kathy wash 2012

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I I suppose it is just bragging, butttt my realtor first showed the hermitage at 11 am, by one I had a viable offer, by three a contract was being drafted up. Bam! I feel fabulously giddy (til I think...

The hermitage, officially listed for sale

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kathy wash 2012

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Contact Markham Realtors to see the hermitage and microforest. The listing0

Last add to the hermitage

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kathy wash 2012

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Originally there was a view blocking picket rail between the two levels. I ripped the eye sore out within the first five days of owning. When I bought it I always had this idea in mind, shelving in the dead...

the hermitage draws close to being market ready and my floors are rocking!

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kathy wash 2012

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admittedly i’ve been showing her anyway because the micro forest and mini meadow and she built deck can sell themselves…the finishing of all the reno projects on the hermitage just make her totally smittenable. one more layer to be laid...

hermitage flooring coming along

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hermitage, plywood floors, spacers

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kathy wash 2012

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pro floor finisher comes next week as i have finished with cutting, fitting and securing the floors in the bedrooms, den, living, dining and stairwell. yay. I cut and laid 8″ planks in the bedrooms which contrasted nicely from the adjoining...

hermitage, microforest, minimeadow going on the market

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kathy wash 2012

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I have loved on this space I call home, I call gift. But I will be going to do my PhD in Lubbock and don’t know where I will land at its end so the hermitage in the woods must...

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk of my living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly.

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hermitage, hormonal humor, mundane ramble, poems which aren't really poems just thinkings

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kathy wash 2012

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I get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. so i do. i drag myself down the aisle. pulling one more box from the shelf, the smallest yet, i...

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