two weekends ago we visited our friends, midori and andy, 3 weeks after the birth of their son adrian.
andy and the “bunny” i knit for adrian.
the following evening we took a hike with mike into bernal heights, our neighboring district.
we had indian curry and indian pizza at zante.
on friday mathew and i were home and not working. we got a surprise visit from leo and dan. they wanted ice cream so we walked to humphrey slocombe, the city’s of-the-moment, trendy ice cream shop, less than a block away from our house. they offer flavors like, secret breakfast (bourbon and cornflakes), government cheese, mcEvoy olive oil, russian imperial stout and pink grapefruit tarragon. on hot days the line goes out the door and down the street. we’ve even seen, on more than one occasion, people jumping out of cabs to buy this ice cream!
the humphrey slocombe two-headed calf. dan got blue bottle vietnamese coffee and leo got carrot mango and tahitian vanilla.
later, back at chez turtle+mole, we harvested some peaches off our backyard tree.
last saturday’s project was installing tin ceiling tiles in the office. mathew worked out the grid measurements on the computer and we were ready to start snapping chalk lines on the ceiling.
mathew giving me his best puppy-dog look.
and the fun begins! each tile is 24″ square with holes on 2 sides for screws and folded grooves on the other two sides. after the first tile is installed, the second tile snaps and locks into the first tile and screws secure that tile in place. we worked this way in rows across the ceiling.
to fit around the light fixture, the corners of 4 tiles had to be trimmed.
the last two pieces!
mathew admiring our work. it’s done! now it needs crown molding around the edges.
but before crown molding can even be measured for, shelves on either side of the fireplace need to be built and installed. mathew cutting plywood, then using a cabinet making kit that was a gift from his brother, misha.
that night mathew played now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t with his beard.
beautiful, wood trim mathew routed from recycled wood, sanded, stained, then polyurethaned, will go around the windows in the office. a clean-shaven mathew demonstrates how the trim will look in place, too bad i forgot to use a flash!