claudia's surf city

Or maybe warlock? In any case, he's an amazing surfer and also, appropriately, the superintendant of water on the island. In his later c...

Manhattans are now, ironically, the drink of choice with this view.

Season begins.

photograph by Oceangurl The pagan symbol to celebrate the hoisting of the ridge pole is known as the wedding bush, for some reason. Maybe be...

The guys left this morning. And now there's a very expensive sculpture in my yard.

. . .last evening, right after the crew chief from South County Post and Beam arrived to prepare for the rest of the frame-erecting people w...

Today I move out to make room for the post and beam framers, who arrive on the 3:00 boat. Reach me on computer or cell for the next five day...

Wolfcubs prepare the deck for painting. The carpenters thought it was necessary to protect the plywood subfloor from warping during the comi...

photograph by Ace

Team CSC II: Done with the house deck, joists for the front porch and even now finishing the back porch. Then they pack up and hit the road...

As the Architect recently pointed out, Mr. Li has been among the missing. Yes, there were times when his taste in e-bay artifacts didn't...

Building a tent to build in. But that was yesterday.

South County Post and Beam is arriving to put up the frame this Sunday .

Between thunderstorms, Peter and Chris cut and nailed something in the neighborhood of 200 pieces of 2x12 pressure treated lumber to use as ...

The Cowboy's look for carpentry in the rain. Maybe we should all just put bags over our heads until next year. Maybe it will stop rainin...

Guys, I know you're out there, and how many of you there are. I know we have a regular reader in Lombardia, Italy, for instance. (Hello,...

Island ho!