free sounded good all that cast iron and unseen engineering, convection, conduction and combustion put to work warming my drafty old house just rip down the wall in the corner of the living room and pipe that sucker into the old chimney interior wall demolition- 16 hours, blood and sweat labor interior clean-up 2 hours … Continue reading Preparations for Free Wood-Stove
My house is the novel I will never write
all of it's owners make up the multi-generational element which make all of the great stories unfold like a marvelous quilt red tolstoy patches of here and golden garcia-marquez patches there the family names of those whose lives began and ended within the embrace of these walls children, now my age, beginning new lives in … Continue reading My house is the novel I will never write
Home, in progress
hardwood floors made of softwood 100 year old douglas fir sanded, scraped, filled, stained, sealed attic gutted abated, re-insulated sealed-up tight a shell of our eventual bedrooms head room enough for dream ghosts to dance paint, paint, paint scrub, scrub, scrub window and door trim pulled pried ever so carefully caulked sealed a project a … Continue reading Home, in progress
Jonas Lamb 