A new door!

We got a new door a few weeks ago to replace the door between the house and the garage. Neither of us had ever installed a door before. No worries, right? Wrong. As we should well know by now, nothing in this house is standard or level or anything. Consequently, installing a door becomes a very tricky procedure.

First, we learn that there is a two inch gap between the frame and the opening. Second, we learn that new door will not fit into opening with the bottom threshold. So, we remove it. Then we saw down the ends of the frame because a standard door is just slightly too tall to fit in our not standard opening. Finally, we get the door in. Hooray! Oh wait, it's crooked. Or the opening is crooked. Or the frame is crooked. Or the house itself is crooked and everything else is straight. Who knows?

After much muttering, smacking of door frames, rearranging of shims, etc. we finally get it to a good spot. We screwed it into place, and now have a new door (sans doorknob)!

Winter 2007-2008

Our first winter was a little bit of a shock. I moved to CT in October, 2006. Nate followed about a month later (having finished his Americorps stint). We both expected winter in the Northeast to be full of big, fluffy snowflakes. We expected to be buried under snow for days at a time. Instead, it was 70° in January. Finally, in February, we got some snow. It was winter, Cincinnati-style - three inches of snow and an inch of ice underneath.




It got somewhat better after that. We learned that we had crocus bulbs all alongside one end of the house. We also learned that our house was at least two different shades of yellow.

Halloween

We successfully survived Halloween. There were a few late nights finishing Nate's costume, but I think it was totally worth it. I did feel a little silly riding in the car with a 4.5' stick of butter in the front passenger seat.