New fixture/Raven's Wind
Maybe it's a weird thing to post about but we're just so excited about every part of the new place! I went online tonight and bought a brand-new toilet...it's a little old-fashioned looking, should go well with the pedestal sink and clawfoot tub. See a pic of it HERE. Notice the tank lid? Sort of a little shelf thingy. We'll go pick it up in Santa Fe tomorrow or the next day.
Have another large chunk of wall out...Wow, that back part is going to be HUGE...our "quarters.” We agreed we should open the entire thing up, put new floor down, then make our straw-bale step wall/arched opening/adobe benchs...in case we decide to move them around at some point in the future. So there’d be floor everywhere underneath.
I didn’t believe it when, in the kitchen, I saw there was no floor of any sort under the kitchen cabinets. Only dirt. No wonder they rotted through the bottom! Well, that’s how they did it with adobe in the old days. I suppose we should feel lucky there are floors of any sort. The floors in the back part need to come up and new sub floor put down, then (if we do not go with radiant heat) there will be pine planks laid down as flooring. But the boards (normally these would be joists, but again, it’s an old adobe and they did things differently) that run under the sub-floor look to be in good shape, we can go ahead and keep those.
So tomorrow—we’ll call & make sure the toilet is in stock before driving down to SF. Other than that? Get the rest of the walls out in our living quarters and many, many, many trips down to the Cañada convenience (dump/recycling) station where our friend Amos works.
Oh! I nearly forgot...make a note to myself. Leonardo said we could go ahead and order the carved posts for the front! Yay! I wanted to but thought maybe it was a bit of an indulgence but since he thinks it’s OK....I’ll make that phone call tomorrow. There is a guy up in Peñasco that makes them.
And...we’ve named the house. Where Leonardo comes from in Cape Town, South Africa, people name their houses. I think it’s a charming custom. So....our new house is called “Raven’s Wind.” It sits right on the edge of the canyon where these huge ravens ride thermals all day. They sometimes sit in the apple tree out back and soar right over us and play over the canyon all day. It’s quite a sight. Thus, Raven’s Wind. Plus, doesn’t it sound dramatic, like something out of Wuthering Heights?
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