The Project is Complete

 I have posted pictures of construction progress on the Woodbury/Taylor project as it moved forward. This post will show the finished home. The remodel was a great success and the homeowners are very happy in their new digs.

Tynan in front of the house just before construction

Completed remodel

From the south-west

Back door from driveway to kitchen

Entry w/ polished concrete floor

Entry and living room looking south

Looking north

Kitchen north wall

Dining and kitchen

Dining and family room

Family room

Family room with Eames' chair

Master bedroom

Master bath

Annie's office

Opa's hidey hole

New photo added 23 December:

Beautiful new, sexy, slab garage door finally installed 

just in time for Christmas

That's a wrap and this is all for now.

OXO

D.

September 2020

September 2020 is now in the rearview mirror as we race toward the election in November and hopeful relief. We had a nice visit from the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons. Their visit with friends in northern Utah fell through so we got them several day early. We ate some good food (take away and home-cooked including a great Japanese feast they cooked). We rode the Heber Creeper, shopped for consignment furniture in Park City, ate fish sandwiches at High Mountain in Kamas, and we made a quick day trip to Vernal so they could visit with Katy and family. That included dinner in Myton at the Hideout with their famous "steak on a stone." On Labor Day we joined Rod and Vic for a trip to SLC so they could see the demolition going on at the Salt Lake Temple, and of course I am always down with a construction inspection. Greek Souvlakia made our dinner. There was another trip to Vernal for Arthur's second birthday celebration (a day early) on 13 September. The SKTs and DATs had lunch from Ripples in Edgemon with Hank and Colette at the nearby LDS pavilion. They came to Utah to escape the fierce smokey air in California. I made some of Grandma's chile sauce, and thanks to cousin Millie Kay, finally decided that the grandma in question is Grandma Hansen. At the end of the month we had a lovely picnic lunch with the Calder cousins. It has been a long time since the last cousins' breakfast, so this was wonderful. The Taylor/Woodburys  moved into their completely remodeled house and I will do a separate post with pictures of their delightful new digs.

Dinner at P712

Headed down into Provo Canyon on the Heber Creeper

Second cousins in Vernal

Steak on a stone heated to 500 F

Good food

Arthur holding down the head of the table

A beautiful evening in Myton

Boyntons, Colvers, and KBT at the Hideout

The new door color

The Boyntons get a tour

Park-City day lunch in Kamas

Brigham doing remote school

Take away from La Casita

Remains of the Salt Lake Temple Annex

This is a HUGE project

Greek Lunch at Greek Souvlakia

Yeeros, dolamthes, and Greek Salad

Chicks and children

Evelyn Alta loves the chickens

Planting a pear tree

Arthur opening gifts with the help of Lu and Evy

Grammy helping frost cupcakes

Arthur McBain is two

Lunch with Hank and Colette

Grandma Hansen's chile sauce smells like fall

Kreg, Millie, and Kris

SKT, Millie, Kreg, Dorothy, DAT, and KBT

I will post the new-house photos soon, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.

August 2020 Part II

The second half of August included a great visit from the Hastings who came to install Tucker at the University of Utah and enjoy a slice of Utah summer. The Taylor/Woodbury project continued apace, and Kris and I made a quick day trip to Vernal for Evelyn's 5th birthday.

Porch sitting with the Hastings

R&A shopping for Asian stuff they can't find in the

land of green chilis

Clara and the Soelberg girls making paper

BYOM dinner at the Ensigns

Theo took to Anders like a duck to water

This actually isn't all the computers

Utah corn is a treat

The Hastings boys dirty legs and feet after a day of riding at Sundance

Clara created an impromptu sculpture 

Take away from Bombay House

Tucker at the UofU dorms

A large sampling of pastries from Fillings and Emulsions

The stonework going up

Kris sharing birthday-greeting Polos from the aunties with Evy

She is a born helper and had a clear idea what she wanted for her cake

She is fond of rainbows; I mean, who isn't?

She wanted a slip and slide and to limbo

Dinner time

She chose Spam musubi and ramen, and they were delicious

When you are five, birthdays are thrilling

She killed it

The precast front walk

The Marlpit-Hill Boytons came again at the very end of the month, but I will include their visit in next month's post. This is it for August.

OXO

D.