The Baby 1.0 project launched early— and caught me without the Baby Blog project started. I quickly pushed out a MT4 powered baby blog within a day or so of McLean’s arrival— but it hasn’t been fully tested and is still very much a project under development… As far as I can tell from the Activity log, Happy and Maura have had some trouble leaving comments. Anyone else having trouble? Can you send me a mail or leave me a comment below on what the problem or error was that you received? McLean and I thank you for your help.

McLean Howard Hudson

A three week early surprise— fully cooked and in perfect shape! A first name from my Scottish family and a middle name from Joanne’s grandfather. These are the first of thousands of photos to be taken. Both mom and baby are doing great!

This is what the internet is for: pen reviews handwritten with the reviewed pens. I love it. I have to get a Pilot G-2 1.0mm Black and a Zebra Sarasa Clip 0.4mm (Black) now.

Some BEFORE and CURRENT photos of the first floor. AFTER photos are a long ways away.

In the CURRENT shots the original external wall to the house is exposed. Around the 1920s the house was expanded backwards into its lot— and apparently they just framed the back wall of the house into the middle of the house! Crazy. We’re going to span that chunk of brick with a steel beam to allow us to open the space wide up.

Photos below after the jump.

Marty says:

Hey - how about some more pics of the new place? I’m dying to see it. I’d also love to live vicariously through you with a renovation blog story line, now that I’m 50% of the way done with mine…

The only completed project so far is the basement. A little “parging” and it’s gone from “Put the lotion in the basket” to “alien autopsy”. Before and after shots below:

Take the whole thing AND the kitchen sink!

Our new house has a never used builders kitchen that we’re going to tear out and replace. We hate to see the new hardware, granite-tops and cabinets go to waste.

For $500 you can have the new cabinets (w/under cabinet lighting), new sink (w/garbage disposal) and new granite top. Appliances NOT included (they’ve already hit the dumpster).

Everything must go with just a raw empty space left. Cabinets have already been uninstalled and just need carting away.

More photos and cabinet plans below.