Now I took over this blog because I had more time to post than the Ds. Now, it is like three weeks between posts, and I know you're thinking, "WTF, Matt?" (Well, except Mary who likes seeing her Baby Elephant at the top of the blog.) But here's the problem: Despite my free time I still need someone to take pictures and then tell me what it is. i hope this will change this week.
Starting Wednesday, the hard wood floors go in. I am pretty psyched, not just because I will be able to take photos but also because the floors will be made of ash. Ash, of course, is the wood of choice for baseball bats. I learned that Spenser said ash is to be "for nothing ill." Ash is also big in mythology. Achilles kills Hector with an ash spear. In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree. I also seem to recall ash being the wood for wizard's staff, which was backed up by In Worship of Trees, which also says that "Of old, a staff of ash was hung over doorframes to ward off malign influences." So I am feeling quite good about our floors.
And now on to the photos:
Isn't the house beautiful in the snow? Other people must think so, too, judging by the number of red and brown houses we are seeing in the area.
After the heavy snow, Miked walked to each of our new trees and shook them off so they are undamaged. A city tree did lose a limb.
This black stuff is a mat that goes down under some radiant heat tubes. It is awesome, not that we would use anything less.
The pipes for my bathroom are set.
These are supply and return pipes. What do they supply, you ask. Well, maybe the radiant heat, maybe water. Or maybe the DTs is going to have alcohol running through its pipes the way the villain did in Mike Grell's Green Arrow, just after the Longbow Hunters. He was really evil, though, so I hope we are not imitating him. My guess is the radiant heat.
Because the pex is the plumbing.
i don't know, though. I believe these are radiant heat tubes, although we might have one of those vacuum tube systems for sending messages. The message tubes would be smaller than usual.
And I am almost sure these are the radiant supply tubes, so maybe that earlier picture was for the hot and cold running liquor. The villain's dad was a bootlegger, so it wasn't really the villain's pipe system. He just inherited it. By the way, Green Arrow dealt with him severely.
Emily and Miked tested all the radiant heat recently. There was only one leak, which will soon be solved.
Bring on the floors!
