Yesterday, we met again with the electricians about getting a line run into the garage , the panel replaced, etc..  They gave us a verbal estimate, rather than written, which bothered Ray and me a bit.  The price also seemed high: forty-five hundred dollars, to replace the panel and run a new service from the pole to the house.  We last had this ( Read more... )

A week ago Thursday, Emily got an iPhone.  She, Ray, and I all have laptops.  Ray has an iPhone, I have a fifteen-dollar job that works just fine for my purposes, thank you ( Read more... )

I got quite a bit further with Emily's room yesterday.  The two purple walls are done except for the strip around them where the tape is, to keep the orange from slipping over onto them.  The orange ones not so much.  I've already bought one additional gallon of orange paint, and I predict I'll need another by the time we're done.  My gut feeling ( Read more... )