BE-COMING HOME: plumbing the depths

Home wasn’t built in a day. [Jane Sherwood Ace] The third week of July was all about getting the sub-floor plumbing and heating systems in place. Those little white tubes sticking out above the joists are a fantastic sub-floor innovation:  PEX piping.  PEX is durable, dissolution resistant, chemical resistant, scratch resistant, fracture resistant, and high-functioning … Read more BE-COMING HOME: plumbing the depths


BE-COMING HOME: on the level

蔵焼けて 障るものなき 月見哉 Barn’s burnt down.  Now I can see the moon. [a haiku by Mizuta Masahide, 17th C. poet and samurai] From the look of her, you’d have thought The Ruin would have gone down on her own the first time a strong wind hit the hill.  She was a life-threatening public hazard in … Read more BE-COMING HOME: on the level