May 14, 2008—First photos with the new camera

Here is Jim’s dressing room, with taping complete.

I am getting better shots with this slightly wider angle lens, but as you can see here, it does bend the straight lines at the edges of the frame.

Here is the living room/dining room façade with the stucco brown coat complete. It is still wet from being sprayed down before I got to the site.
It is a little hard to tell with the scaffolding in place, but the changes in wall plane are starting to give the building more interest.
Here is our coffer with its final smooth coat.
Once his helper had finished digging out the propane tank, Kai had him complete the trench to the electrical vault. This involved digging across the road down to the pond. I went to tell Kai that there was a vehicle down there, since Joseph was working on the arbor (see Garden for details).
Kai and his helper took a bunch of scrap lumber and filled up the trench so Joseph could get his van out.

Here is Kai, trying to reassure me that I WILL be able to get my truck over that trench to go down and bring up tools.

I didn’t have a chance to photograph myself driving across the filled trench, but I know I busted the sheet of OSB they placed over the wood scraps. It was just a little bit exciting there for a minute. Joseph managed to get his van across too.

This is the tile that we will probably use in the master bathroom, combined with white tiles. It is a paver, but made from porcelain rather than terra cotta, so it is stronger and much more impervious to moisture.
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