Tag: home base
member name: Rich Luhr
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December 22, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
We got back to home base and the full weight of what we have to do has crashed down on us. The house is a mess. The new floors need cleaning and sealing, the living room is packed . . .
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December 25, 2007 04:12 AM EST --
We did it, sort of. We are in the house for Christmas Eve. OK, there’s only one working bathroom and it lacks a sink. There’s no furniture other than . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:12 PM EDT --
Today I got a huge gift from a blog reader and contributor to Airstream Life. Craig arranged for me to take an hour of flight instruction in a Robinson R-22 helicopter at the Tucson airport. Now I owe . . .
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December 31, 2007 09:48 PM EST --
When I was preparing to leave Denver, Fred gave me directions home: left onto Monaco, right to I-25, left ramp, then right on I-10 and right to Tucson. Â That’s basically it if you want . . .
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March 28, 2008 12:00 AM EDT --
For the past month I’ve been opening the windows in the house to let the afternoon air seep in and warm up the cold stone floors and adobe blocks of the house. In February and early March there . . .
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February 03, 2008 06:36 AM EST --
If we don’t need it, we don’t buy it. That has been our motto for the past two years. Living in a confined space means you don’t buy “stuff” just because:
it’s . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:36 AM EDT --
I have hung back on the blog this weekend to let my thoughts catch up with events. It has been a time when a lot of “not much” seemed to happen. Sometimes I find myself simply living the events . . .
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December 22, 2007 07:24 PM EST --
Coming back to home base was emotionally overwhelming. First there was the long gorgeous drive home along I-8. It was like many other drives we’ve taken in the southwest: . . .
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December 24, 2007 03:48 AM EST --
Every year around Halloween I reiterate my pledge: “ I will not be caught dead or alive near a shopping mall until after the New Year. ” Most years I succeed at keeping the pledge, but this . . .
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December 27, 2007 04:36 AM EST --
Our last house took eight years to complete. Actually, we never completed it. What I should say is that when we sold it after eight years of on-and-off work, it was 90% complete. . . .
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December 28, 2007 04:48 AM EST --
I was supposed to fly to Denver early this morning but United canceled my flight. So I found myself with a free day on the schedule. I should have stayed put and gotten some . . .
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December 28, 2007 09:00 PM EST --
When we were first walking through this house last March, we noticed only one living thing in the otherwise desolate back yard: a small lemon tree. The poor thing was so dry that its leaves . . .
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December 30, 2007 05:12 AM EST --
I’m starting to look at this phase as a sort of journey in itself. We really have to, in order to avoid being intimidated by the scope of the work to be done. As the proverb goes, “The journey . . .
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January 01, 2008 10:12 PM EST --
About 11 years ago I wrote a long series of web pages about the building of our house in Vermont. (They are now long gone from the Internet.) The pages detailed the process of building a timber frame . . .
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January 03, 2008 06:36 AM EST --
We are running a self-imposed race, trying to see how quickly we can complete a house renovation. Things are flying by so fast that I can hardly remember them all at the end . . .
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January 04, 2008 03:00 PM EST --
I couldn’t blog yesterday because things have been insanely busy. You’ll understand why in a moment. There’s a lot to tell.
First off, Thursday morning two painters arrived at . . .
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January 05, 2008 11:24 PM EST --
Yesterday afternoon as the painters were leaving for the day, Eleanor and I stepped into the plastic-shrouded house and tip-toed past piles of ceiling (now in crumbles on the floor) to see what the first . . .
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January 06, 2008 11:36 PM EST --
So much for playing outside the house today. I resisted the pull, but eventually the house sucked us in and we ended up spending most of the day puttering around inside. We have four rooms we can use, . . .
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January 08, 2008 08:00 AM EST --
People who meet us here often comment on the stark differences between Vermont and Arizona. Vermont is cold and damp, Arizona is hot and dry. Desert versus Green Mountains. It seems to amaze people that . . .
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January 09, 2008 04:24 PM EST --
Today we leave on an Airstream trip! Whew — just in time for our sanity. The house craziness has been a lot of work.
Yesterday the gas plumbers showed up to dig . . .
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