Q: What are we tired of hearing from contractors? Brooke here. We’ve gotten one estimate on pool repair and another on the cost to replace the deck. Neither are what we anticipated, mainly as the contractors keep pointing out a couple of small structural problems. Like so… After seeing what was hidden under six tons […]
Brooke here: It struck me this morning that I had yet to mention the Labyrinth (well, as it’s more of a tunnel than a maze, it’s more of a La than a Labyrinth, but Labyrinth sounds cooler and has 80% more David Bowie). The house has this amazing wide, covered front porch, complete with swing. […]
Brooke here: Brick removal is done. There’s just the slightest, teeny-tiny, eeeensiest smidgen of cleanup ahead of us, but the tear up is finished. Our friends Elizabeth and Jo came over to help Brown with the heavy lifting on Saturday, and Elizabeth and I knocked out the last fifty square feet or so this morning. […]
Brooke here: We’re a week into the brick removal stage of the pool repair and roughly half of the brick has been torn up and stripped away. North Carolina had several absolutely gorgeous 70-degree days over the last week – someone must have made a wish – so I spent much of it shoveling rock. […]
Brooke here: “If we’re not playing tonight, let’s grab some beers and drink them out by my broke-ass pool” – Brown, in email to the Lucky Bunch. We are very excited about the broke-ass pool. Not so much about the two weeks of backbreaking work that need to be done before the deck can be […]
Flying by night 