that brown house

We had just finished ripping down the last of the cardboard that was mysteriously nailed all over the ceiling and walls in the garage, when a woman walking her dogs stopped at the front of the driveway.
Her name, we found out, was Martha, and she had lived in this house when she was growing up, […]

This has nothing to do with the house, but it’s what I’ve been up to this weekend.
Since 2006, the Flickr photo hosting service has let people identify where their pictures were taken if they want to, and in that time 13,000 people have provided locations for 675,000 pictures taken in the bay area.
It turns out […]

to share a bit of our holiday cheer with you on this rainy (to which mom retorts with a chuckle, “i thought it wasn’t supposed to rain in california!”) christmas eve, here is a snapshot of our tree:

also, i received a lovely christmas surprise yesterday! a neighbor from the house in maryland that i […]

last month when the ceiling lights shorted out we played quite a bit of phone tag with the electrician who rewired the house. because of the timing, it was much easier to “borrow” the contractor who was working on a friend’s attic renovation than to wait for our electrician. however, the electrician did […]

the first table

yum!

erica v. the bird

we like it when guests match the appliances…

the second table has the most wonderful cranberry sauce ever

cake & pie — oh my!
many thanks to erica & brian (the photographer), eric’s parents & brother, brian’s grandparents & cousin, my mother, christia & her eric, and elaine for making eric’s and […]

It’s been a long time since we had any actual news, but here comes a bunch all at once.
We had decided to bite the bullet and actually have the stove repaired so we could have a working oven. The stove guy came out again, looked at it some more, and decided that in fact […]

i’d love to be able to gush that the reason we haven’t accomplished any house projects is because we’ve been making fabulous headway toward planning the perfect (memorable!  meaningful! pretty!  tasty! within our budget!) wedding, but i can’t.  we are discouraged.  so far our wedding story consists only of drama and disappointment.  we have no […]

steph (standing amidst the post-party dirty dishes): do you realize that we got the house (with the exception of the “office”) all cleaned up and presentable, made a mountain of food, strung little white lights outside, and then had almost 50 people over and didn’t take a single picture?
eric: we were having too much […]

that you are tired of visiting us only to keep seeing the ants in our cupboard…and we do want you to keep visiting us…but we are wholly unmotivated to finish unpacking, let alone start another house project (or finish the ones we’ve managed to forget that we are in the middle of).
therefore, we obviously need […]

we are overrun with ants (but not the fun kind that tell you all the family gossip) and it’s making our whole household cranky…especially eric, who is typically very even-tempered.  they are coming in through joint between the window header and the wall in the dining room, then tracing their way across the dining room […]