No News is No News, Sorta (Or, I've Been Bad at Blogging)
As you may have guessed from the tumbleweeds rolling across this page, it’s been a slow summer here at le casa de caca. We more or less knew this would be the case; we had a short list of high-priority fixes and improvements to make quickly (plumbing, AC, carpets), all of which made hilarious blog fodder, but the horizon of the next project, The Whole House, is quite a bit further away. The story well is drying up, the pithy anecdotes fewer and farther between, as life in la maison de la merde has become… actually pretty normal. But, to be fair, we have been making progress, and I DID start this damn blog to keep you updated, so: We found an architect! Getting to work with an architect might have been the part of this project I was most excited about. Sketches, plans, 3D renderings? It all just sounds so… cool. (Spoiler alert: it is.) But we soon understood that architects do more than just design cool shit. They manage the permitting process with the city, will often oversee the bi...