La Villa Loca

Well, well, well. Here we are, less than two weeks from the last blog post and we're making ANOTHER blog post. Don't get used to the consistency, but you know, enjoy it for the moment. Anyway, wow, things are happening. Let's get to it. If you want to skip to the part where something goes wrong and it's funny, just jump down to the section titled "Haha! Comic Calamity!" Stairs: First Blood We try to get over to the house at least 1x/week just to see what's going on and keep an eye on things. The progress to remove the big walls was fairly plodding; we saw it unfold in pieces and no single step was a huge shock. Now we've hit the point where, apparently, entire structures materialize. It's FUN. So I walk in to the place last week and trudge upstairs. As I got to the top I involuntarily just started saying "WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW," and it sounded even stupider in person than it does written, I assure you. Anyway, I was yammering to...

Yes, yet again, we’re taking a long time in between posts here; sorry, we’ve got kind of a lot going on. And really, I think we were both waiting for a comically horrific story to reveal itself during demo: “Surprise, you’ve got MOLD!” premiering this fall on HGTV. I’ve been psychologically preparing myself for a number of potential scenarios. These were roughly the odds on possibilities as things were getting torn apart: 2-1:    Mold 3-1:    Eye-widening structural defect 6-1:    Plan-altering, dream-ruining discovery 8-1:    Jaw-dropping structural defect 10-1:    Mold (sentient) 15-1:    Dead body in the wall (animal) 17-1:    Something that would require the house be wrapped in plastic a-la “E.T.” 20-1:    Dead body in the wall (human) 20-1:    Treasure Map!! 25-1:    Dead body in the wall (multiple) 30-1:    ~3...