Doors and drawers!

The last few days we've seen a break in the rain but it's still been cloudy and foggy. Saturday evening we got a bit of a break in the clouds so we experimented with our first night time-lapse photography of a full moon rise (you can see the video at the end of this post). We set up the camera, tripod and laptop in the front yard and set the software to take a photo every ten seconds over a time span of 90 minutes. As you'll see in the video, we had some issues with condensation on the lens that made for some fuzzy moments, but in the end, it still turned out kind of cool. We'll need to experiment some more, obviously, before we can master the process.

We also got a bunch of photos emailed to us from Chris, the Tombleson's great grandson, who received the promised set from his great aunt. The photos are actually photos of photos and not the best quality so we're going to hold off on posting them until a week or so when Chris has them scanned and drops them by the house on a thumb drive. The photos show the kitchen, a bedroom, the living room, and the backyard. The living room photo shows some very cool MCM furniture! The image quality of the magazine article is decent so we'll include that in today's post. We spent way too many hours over the weekend online trying to track down our own copy of (California) Homes Illustrated but never found one. We'll keep trying…

Yesterday was very exciting as John and Gary both delivered the doors and drawers for the BBQ room and guest house cabinets. The guest house bathroom is too much of a mess to really appreciate the finished cabinets but the BBQ room looks pretty awesome.

Paco and Junior also installed the heating elements in the rest of the guest house yesterday, applying the overlaid mud before they left. Today they were the only ones on site and, as we write this, they've just finished laying the rest of the tile. Tomorrow they will return to grout and then all of the flooring for phase one should be done. Yep, done!

What's left to be done? The counters for the two bathrooms should be next. Then the plumbers can return to install the toilets, shower and sink hardware, and the water heaters. Then the shower doors get installed. And then? Could we possibly be finished?

As promised, here's the video of Saturday night's moonrise: