Upstairs bathroom

Dave and I worked on the bathroom this morning, starting with a visit to George Morlan Plumbing to purchase a Toto Supreme toilet and a Kohler shower head and sliding bar fixture. Boy it’s easy to drop lots of cash in a hurry. Now’s not the time to skimp,...

Tile and color

We met with Alicia of Color Tile this morning and reviewed plans for the bathroom remodel. It’ll be expensive—in the $2,000 range—but I have no doubt that the results will be a marked improvement on the previous bathroom walls, and it’s gotta be better...

Electrifying

Portland, Oregon Had the electrician out today to install a new light/bath fan combo unit in the upstairs bathroom and fix the long-standing bath fan problem in the downstairs bathroom. Let me tell you, those guys from Code Electric know their stuff. Not that...

Test early

Yesterday Erin and I attended a group orientation at Kaiser for prospective parents. An hour well-spent on the whole, but the nurse in charge had no answer to my question of why, only now that the women attending were pregnant, was Kaiser bringing up the usefulness of...

Design

After a very pleasant night’s sleep, Joe, Carol, Erin, and I walked around Battle Ground to check out the new subdivisions and to examine some of the new houses being built. None of the model homes or offices were open, but we peeked inside several under...