Scoakat's Blog

I've been busy this past week, resting and recreating takes a lot of time and effort.  I'm on my first real vacation in a year since...

On Sunday, Kate and I finally rolled up our sleeves and got some work done in our small yard and gardens.  She was determined to try tomatoe...

Yesterday morning, shortly before I had to leave for work, we had to scramble to get my car out of the garage and her van into the driveway....

The porch warms quite nicely on sunny days during spring and fall.  The cats love the warmth and access again while we welcome the warmth in...

Boy, this focaccia bread is super good.  It came out of the oven about noon today and is already gone. I might make a couple batches of che...

A week ago our dishwasher died, the pump stopped working.  This one lasted almost exactly 7 years, and the one prior lasted only 5 years, bu...

Yesterday they installed two No Parking signs near the top of our street and the next one over.  Today they installed more down both streets...

 It's late, but I wanted to share the latest update, however small.  Yesterday, temporary no parking signs showed up all along our side ...

Our autumn has been mild, overall, and I think I heard the mildest on record.  We started yesterday with a wintry mix (slush) that turned to...

Since late last week they started filling the terraces and other areas with dirt, and when I got home today we had all the dirt, seeded and ...

The windows mummy is no more this year, but I did get a neat black skeleton with lit eyes to hang on the front door tonight.  I also got a c...

I noticed today the gap between the base of the tree and where it was growing over the old curb and now with the new curb and thought to pro...

There hasn't been any big updates lately, they've just been cleaning up the terraces and where they had to dig out for new sidewalk ...

The work this week consisted of wetting, grading and compressing the gravel, and raising the manholes to the new street level (the orange ba...

It appears we're ready to have a new street installed very soon.  There's not been a whole lot of activity lately other than grading...

First order of business on Friday morning was pouring our driveway apron.  I hadn't left for work yet and they got started. When I got h...

Curbs and gutters were installed yesterday, an interesting process. Yesterday I had off, so I was able to watch the progress made in front o...

As work on the roadway continues, we still had a driveway apron for the weekend, though we began parking elsewhere. The driveway apron was a...

Or hardly working? Really, though, I think they have been working hard.  Everyone gets a break now and again.  Oh, and they were parked, not...