Present Joys

We received a delivery of purple Dawyk beech trees from Oakland Nursery today. We bought them now to take advantage of a sale, but I’m waiting to plant them until we remove the dead trees and all the giant weeds later this month.

This afternoon we received delivery of about 3000 lineal feet of poplar moldings for our ceilings from Hiland. I have bit off more than I can chew, but there are some efficiencies in ordering in bulk. This delivery includes everything I’ll need for the boxed cornices in my parlors and foyer, coffered ceiling in my dining room, and crown moldings in four bedrooms. All of these rooms will also feature a picture molding approximately 18 inches below the ceiling, which I ordered, and the principal (first-floor) rooms will have a dado molding (“chair rail”) about 28 inches above the floor.

I haven’t regularly posted in over a decade, but as time passes, I realize more and more how much I enjoy documentation. I’ve got a lot going on, but I think it’s worth taking the time to write. It’s a good time to start again.

I had such a great time on Tumblr back in the day, but the community is long gone, and I wanted some more control over my data. So (for the very few who are interested:) I’ve migrated my old Tumblr blog to my own web server. Everything has been moved over to the fantastic Kirby CMS through a painstaking process of web scraping, Perl scripting, and many regex operations. I’m pretty proud of how I’ve been able to transfer my old posts in a way that maintains their original spirit—and even more proud that old hyperlinks should all still work. As you might imagine, I have plenty of things I could have posted about over the past handful of years, and I plan to add some of that content and backdate it, just for purposes of organization.

We had an absolutely dreamy ten years in our home in Clintonville, but for the past few years we’d grown increasingly squeezed-in. After pursuing an expansion project in the form of building a second story on our detached garage and hitting a dead end, last summer we determined a move was necessary. So we ended up with a new house in Columbus’ historic Olde Towne East neighborhood.

Bonebrake is the project of a lifetime. In the posts that follow, I’ll attempt to keep track of what we are doing with it—things small and large. The work never stops.

The old place

and the new place

Trying a no sugar grandparent’s delight pimento dram today.