Friday, February 28, 2014

Friday

Mark Peckmezian
This weekend we'll try to rouse ourselves from this rainy sleepy week to work in the garden and paint the lower hallway (maybe not?) And on Sunday, Tocco gets to go kitesurfing for the first time all season and he couldn't be happier. While he does that, I get to watch, jog, stroll, search for shells, and take photos. Cap it all off with a drink at sunset. So relaxing. Hello weekend. 

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tocco's custom baseboards

So, the challenge was, after we got the floor leveled and new drywall up, how to hide the 1940's idea of a foundation which has a beam of redwood on top that can't be hidden by either leveling the floor and raising it up to meet the redwood nor by adding new drywall. The answer - after a few discussions with Megan - was let's build some custom baseboards that are going to wrap around the beam, while also covering them up. First I was hoping that there is something already built out there, since this is not the only house that is constructed this way, but no, nothing. Or you could do it the old-fashioned way - as they obviously did when the house was built - to just plaster them with a layer of stucco, and finished it looks like a boot, which obviously doesn't look pretty enough for our taste.


Ok, back to the drawing board. I needed to cover the 2 inches of redwood sticking out of the wall and the 0.5 inches sticking out from the ground. This means I need 2 inches for the distance and 0.5 inches in height. I could use a 2x2 inch square strip throughout, but this may not work, it gets a bit too heavy and quite tricky to mount. What I need is a kind of "L" shape, ideally in wood, with one part of the "L" that bridges the gap and the other part big enough to mount it against the board. But it also can't be too delicate and therefore useless because it may get crunched by the first touch of a vacuum cleaner. Believe it or not, as exotic it may sound, at the local hardware store they do carry something like that wooden strip in a "L" shape, each side 2 inches.


Black Flies


Today's just rain. Rain rain rain rain rain rain, And taxes.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Lumio

How cool is this product? 







The inventor, Max, has been around Makeshift Society for a long time, and I'm so happy his product is doing well. The Lumio folds up like a book when not in use and then it opens and you have a glowing book light! Ahh I LOVE IT! ;)

San Francisco time lapse


"I Left My Heart" SF Timelapse Project from Marc Donahue on Vimeo.

Tocco sent this video over to me, and it's too cool not to share. I never ever ever thought I'd live and work in San Francisco.

Monday, February 24, 2014

A simple weekend

(why is there such a huge space up here? it won't go away and i hate it)




This weekend, I pretty much just enjoyed the beautiful spring weather and all things nature-y in the backyard (even uncovered two baby snakes under some rocks!), while Tocco did the same and then went off to Tiburon for a very exciting new work project. He also made another berry tart, which he may or may not have completely eaten before tonight's dinner party.