Adventures at The Bunny Manse

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right." - Justice Anthony Kennedy 

yesterday the wonderful Juan at Zarazura painting spent a day doing a demonstration. What a brilliant idea, he and his two guys spend a day doing the work then at the end of the day meet with the homeowner to align expectations and course correct if necessary.  Our test wall, in the art room, in Oil Pro Classic B-2 white. 

All caps. That's the voice in my head screaming PAINT over and over and over again. Paint represents so much. It means we can hang the curtains we purchased months ago. It means we can hang art on the walls. It means no more boxes, no more piles, no more paint chips. It means finality on a project that has often felt unending. At work we were making trend lines of projected outcomes. I rather blithely said, right, you can never appease the trend line. It's additive to success and always demands more. You'll never hit a goal using a trendline that adjusts to performance because it creates a recursive performance and each new gift raises expectations. It's the epitome of sure, but what have you done for me lately. This house is that. Sure we won't actually be done, we'll have the master suite, the sun room, and the tile in the girl's bathroom. But holy hell, what all have we done. It's been a constant stream since we bought the house and before...

Harris and I held our commitment ceremony at SEEDS on March 22, 2008. It was the anniversary of our first date. In the run up to have the house have walls and running water - we broke a sink pipe as Harris's mom arrived to help - we also took a look at the front yard. It was ugly and barren. We went to home depot and purchased some annuals, two pots, and two peach trees. We flanked the stairs to the porch with these to add beauty as we walked in to what would be our home. Each summer there after I took pictured of our little girl - our anniversary baby-  under the branches of those peach trees.  When we sold Der Krackenhaus and moved to The Bunny Manse, I said a very sad goodbye to the peach trees, thinking of Anne of Green Gables saying goodbye to the white lady under her bedroom window. Thinking of the fruit and love we shared. Thinking of the damn squirrels who stole the fruit running across the porch roof. Those damn squirrels. The very kind and thoughtful peo...

Took the weekend to clean up the yard and porch a little bit. A normal person would still think the porch is a nightmare and...they would be correct. Painters start this month so this weekend's work was really more about making a place we can sit in the evening and taking care of some plants. That said, all of us are zonked. Finally got around to taking the chicken wire off the front window. We'll remove the lattice and structure on the end of the porch soon. And some trim paint colors attached to the blue...