Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bridge Building Party!

Looking at the St. John's bridge everyday can make for some serious bridge-envy. We decided to compensate with one of our own, in homage to the afore mentioned. Effing A.



Guilty as charged in this project:
- Gerhardt
- Tristan
- Pete
- Jess
- Basho
- Tom
- John Dougherty
- Jack
- Honore
- Joe
- A party full of people


Some beams were hauled.


Some beams were raised.

A tale of two towers.
Through measure and scale.

Things are made and pointed at. Teej looks on with keen interest.
Basho miscuts yards of lumber.

Gerhart does not do the same.

Some talk is had.



Tristan doing the do.
Planks getting laid for the spans.

Horizontal supports are added. The party gets bigger.

Six hours later, it's as if we've always had a bridge in the yard!




Peace out, girl and boy scouts. The only thing remaining to be done is the stylization of the bridge to mimic features of the St. John's.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Kitchen Remodificationality

This one took some time, but it was well worth the wait! Our household acquired the subcontracting services of one Peter Debye-Saxinger to rock the kitchen's proverbial pony.

Pete and Jess thought long and hard about this project, as you can see.

First things first: demolish stuff in a bubble room akin to E.T.'s sicktank in the movie. Elliot phone home?

Setting the forms for the concrete countertops.

Laying the concrete and utilising the ancient technique of banging stuff with hammers.


Done! Wasn't that easy? Now time to polish the surfaces and lay the tile on the walls.


Whoa-time.


Dev and her friend Maude helped mastermind the tile patterns.


Sour grout.


Tile now almost done, Basho lends a hand with the stove hood. Piece o' cake.


Closer...


Sink and new dishwasher now installed! Effing A!


M. Zanzibar is thoroughly impressed.


Pete comes up for air briefly before continuing his underwater synchronized swimming routine. It's gold or bust in the next summer olympics; good luck Pete!

Bertazzoni stove/oven time! Rock_the_pony.


And voila! Done and done! What'd that take, about five minutes?




Awesomeness incarnate. Next up is bridge-time.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Skylight is falling...

Into place that is! Yeah! Seriously though, I'm here all the time, you folks have been simply wonderful.

The roof at Hacienda Ogden is being made into swiss cheese! More pics after the word jump.

Jump. Kriss Kross'll make you. Jump.




Pete and Jess survey the damage done by the last hurricane.


At this point Pete was demonstrating his hip-hop skillz for us.


Jess pretended he was concentrating on reading the Onion in the bathroom.




And voila! Instant skylight in the art room. Rad, huh?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Oops! We did it. (again)

Things are happening again; work is being done. Project Ewok codename Chirpa is officially under way.

Below are top-secret recently leaked high resolution images of E.W.O.K. 1, a facility which local authorities believe will rock serious pony. Nothing more is known at this time, except that the acronym is simply Every Wando Ocelot Kaleidescopicliferayheckyes.



Secret Agent Pete tries to defuse the bomb set by Basho (seen here attempting to push the tree over).



Miles nests in a clean spot, ready to bathe any stray kitties with drooling goodness should they happen by.



Stop! Hammertime. Notice Miles' body has returned from Portugal two days late.



Basho practices tai chi with Jess, who attempts a rare autograph-on-side-of-board variation while in mid-stance. Slow motion kung fu is a very important aspect of life here at the Ogden dojo.



This is the face of a man possessed by fatherhood!



Pete continued drilling his finger into the railing.



A halo of rainbowness rung the sun like misty rivers on a still sweet whatever.



When finished, EWOK1 will play gracious host to international pizza parties every day forever.



Style shot. Check out the yeah sweet.



The tree deck looks like radical incarnate. It's the end of an arduous and yet fulfilling day.



Jess feels Baby One and babies two through ten million at the same time, demonstrating a very poignant a+b=c life lesson. Meanwhile, Dev sips on a sparkling citrus beverage and contemplates lunar cycles.