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4461. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/25/2008 12:17:31 AM Loved it! 4462. magoseph - 11/25/2008 6:47:14 PM What do you have behind the dormer windows, thoughtful? 4463. thoughtful - 11/25/2008 6:52:44 PM Hi Mags, nothing
the entire upstairs is attic space...lots and lots of attic.
We wanted one floor living so everything we need is on the main floor....the finished basement below is just for fun: music nook, exercise room, craft room, jeep garage and workshop, and guest suite. We were going to have a media room too, but i think that room will have to wait for the funds to be replenished. Hubby says it'll be used for storage in the meantime. 4464. thoughtful - 11/25/2008 6:54:05 PM On the backside of the house, you'll see a space left in the solar panels and a black dot there...and another on the right side of the solar panels. Those are solatubes to light the dressing room and the utility room with sunlight as they are both interior spaces.
4465. thoughtful - 11/25/2008 8:27:01 PM 
Velux Solar tube
4466. magoseph - 11/26/2008 2:34:11 AM Those are solatubes to light the dressing room and the utility room with sunlight as they are both interior spaces.
That's pretty wild--so you'll see how you'll look like outside once dressed up to go? Is there a door between your bathroom and the dressing room? 4467. jexster - 11/26/2008 2:39:27 AM Looks like Sarah and Todd's AK love nest 4468. jexster - 11/26/2008 2:41:00 AM 
4469. thoughtful - 11/26/2008 3:31:46 PM Mags, yes there is a door between the dressing room and the bathroom. The dressing room is like an anteroom to the master suite...it will have an ironing board in the wall, a large closet and in the corner I'll have a 3-way full length mirror for getting dressed. The space is designed such that, in the future, should we need to install an elevator to get to the lower level, we will be able to do so. But at this point, we're opting to save the $$ and use the space instead.
And yes we should get good light there. Though I've also insisted with the electrician/lighting designer that I have true daylight fluorescent lights in the walk-in closet as well. I said I want to be able to tell navy from black without having to run around the house looking for some sunshine. 4470. thoughtful - 11/26/2008 3:34:25 PM Most frustrated this a.m. The electrician called to say he's done for now awaiting the building inspector who will be there on monday, and then we have to wait for the utility to come and inspect and approve before they'll sign off on the solar and geothermal systems. His guess is it will take them 2-3 weeks. Most frustrating as with holidays, it really cuts it close...we need to get sign-off before year end to get full benefit of the subsidies on both systems. Big $$$$ hanging in the balance. 4471. judithathome - 11/26/2008 4:37:50 PM I said I want to be able to tell navy from black without having to run around the house looking for some sunshine.
Our house is utter death for this purpose...Keoni constantly has to take his ties and slacks to the front porch(!) to see if his slacks are grey, taupe, beige, or this weird pale beige-y green...then the ties have to be examined to see if they match the slacks, socks, and shirt.
This might not be a problem if he only had 4 changes of outfits but he has over 50 ties and god only knows how many dress shirts and slacks.
He is very GQ...best dressed in his company and certainly in our social circles.
Our house has lots of windows but is situated so that nothing looks like a "true" color...many's the day he's gotten decked out without checking only to come stomping in from the truck to change slacks or a tie...I thought about setting up a "Garanimals" system for him at one time but he has FAR too many things to do that.
I don't have any navy stuff so only occasionally do I have to check out if my black colored stuff matches...you know how there are different tones of black? That drives me nuts...or used to. I finally saw Sharon Stone wearing a different black top from the skirt she had on and thought if SHE can do it, so can I!
4472. thoughtful - 11/26/2008 5:00:47 PM Well there are a couple of things you might want to try.
One would be to get a compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb with true daylight colors... they have a higher Kelvin rating and are supposed to be as white as true daylight. We actually have one of those bulbs in our reading lamp in the living room and it's amazing how much easier it is to read the paper with our old eyes using that light.
When investigating energy star lighting, we learned a lot from this place that's sponsored by the utilities to save energy. He showed us this Kelvin chart which we found very helpful in understanding the 'temperature' of various light bulbs which is especially important when buying CFLs.
So changing the bulb in the closet or somewhere nearby could be of help.
You could also just get a laundry marker and mark a G for gray and B for black on the labels on just the trousers anyway that will take some of the guesswork out of the process. I've done this for hubby who has red/green color blindness and often mistakes green for beige for some reason. He never could tell the difference between his white shirt and his pale pink one. Of course I still always have to pick his ties for him and I think he has as many as Keoni does. Only thing is, since he's retired, he rarely wears them any more. 4473. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/28/2008 1:07:41 AM For jex & David . . .
 4474. judithathome - 11/28/2008 3:54:41 AM Ahhh...how sweet. A Cranberry Cannon.
;-) 4475. thoughtful - 12/6/2008 12:07:46 AM One of our hunters was kind enough to bring me a venison tenderloin....free range, all organic, deer led a fulfilled life until that sudden stop at the end.
"another one bites the dust. Yeah!"
I'm open to recipe suggestions... 4476. wonkers2 - 12/6/2008 12:37:00 AM Venison is delicious. Sorry,I don't have a recipe. Haven't had any in ages. How far is your house from Detroit? Could we make in time for dinner tonight? or tomorrow? :-) 4477. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/6/2008 1:10:38 AM Last March, a registered letter showed up at my local gallery, addressed to me. My art dealer happened to be in Florida at the time, dealing with an ill parent. A gallery employee signed for the letter and it remained in a pile of unopened mail near his desk.
When my dealer, Kevin, returned, he inadvertently opened the letter, thinking it was for him. When a bunch of photos fell out of the envelope and he realized the photos were of people he didn't recognize, he then looked inside the envelope for something that would explain who the people are--he didn't find one. Kevin looked at the addressee again, realized his mistake, and called me.
He explained what had happened and then tried to describe the people in the photos. I asked him to look inside the envelope again, which he did. With more care this time, he discovered a two-page handwritten letter that had clung to the inside of the manila envelope. I asked him to read it aloud to me.
Kevin began reading and then abruptly stopped--but obviously continued reading to himself. When I asked him why he stopped he said, "I don't know if you would want me to continue with this because it's kind of a bombshell!"
"Well," I said, I don't have anything to hide, go ahead!"
This is the letter he read to me.
4478. arkymalarky - 12/6/2008 1:33:45 AM Bob doesn't hunt, but a friend got a deer shoulder and made a good stew with it. I've had it fried, smoked, as bbq, as chili, and most has been good except one dry, gamy-tasting deer steak. 4479. arkymalarky - 12/6/2008 1:41:29 AM Woah, Wiz. That's amazing. How do you feel about it? Have you done anything yet? It's a lovely family and the little girl is a doll.
I had to read it on Bob's Iphone. 4480. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/6/2008 3:39:28 AM It's an amazing story, arky. I called her twenty minutes after finding out she existed and I left a message on her cell. (She later told me that she listened to my message maybe fifty times before she called me back.) Because her letter sat unattended on Kevin's desk for two weeks, Kim thought I was reticent to respond.
All I could do, when I found out, was laugh--a laugh that came out of a feeling that the Universe played an ironic fate-based joke upon me. Not only did I think my genes would never make it into the next millennium, but here I was finding out, in one extraordinary moment, that I was the father of twins and a grandfather to boot.
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