I’ve been intending to take this picture for a while now, but tonight I finally got around to it.
You are looking straight up from our foyer to the ceiling on the 3rd floor. I may try again in the daylight — when I’m sure the mood will be entirely different.
Author: doug
May 28
On my way into work this morning, despite the overcast & drizzle, I saw the moon.
Oh wait, that’s the WGBH billboard thing.
Sorry for the blurriness, but I had like 1/2 a second to take the picture when traffic slowed.
May 27
Our house is clean! Our cleaning service that we had in Southboro has followed us to Newton, which we are immensely glad about. They came today for the first time in the new house, which desperately needed their attention. 
Not least among the reasons we’re glad to keep Walter is that he knows Winnie, and she tolerates him.
May 26
I reglazed about half the windows in the Hooker House (college apartment on Hooker Ave in Somerville) as a college student to help pay the rent. It looks like now I’ll get to do it again, but this time the homeowner I’ll be helping out will be myself. You may think that 1 1/2″ putty knife you use to spackle holes in your walls is made for that — it’s not; it’s made for applying putty to seal the glass into the window.
Fortunately, the window sashes themselves are in good shape, and this will also be a good opportunity to make sure the insulation and weatherstripping on each window is up to the task.
May 25
I have been doing work on various projects in the basement since we moved in, but this weekend Lis and I attacked the basement and my workshop is much closer to fully set up now. 
May 24
We went to a couple of BBQs today, as befits Memorial Day weekend — one at my brother’s, and one at Kat & Bob’s. At the latter, Fred was unloading some alcohol that he doesn’t want to have to move twice (once to Rachel’s and once to wherever they wind up). Most of the wine went home with various folks, though we did sample the excellent cognac.
May 23
Tonight for dinner we had yummy buffalo kebabs complete with mini pattypan squash.
May 22
There’s nothing like a good variety pack of beers from a good brewery to make Doug happy.
May 21
The old alarm system in our new house was dated — most security companies we contacted had never even heard of its manufacturer. But the fatal flaw was that its motion sensors were not “pet-friendly” and would therefore go off if the cats were to move about in our absence. Our insurance company gives us a significant discount for having an alarm system, so going without is not an option. So I ordered a completely new, modern system, some of the components of which you see here.
I will be installing these over the next few days. (Those of you who watch this space regularly and have noticed a lack of new posts — this is the reason; the install has kept me busy.)
May 20
The airport. Not generally one of my favorite places. But in a different guise, the Apple AirPort is our chosen solution to distributing music throughout the house.
Two little boxes now allow us to pipe music from the office to the living room on the 1st floor, and the loft on the 3rd floor, without having to fish cables through the walls.