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Pipe Organs
Olympic Organ Builders
Portable Organ Kit
Database Design
Follow Me
Blog
A Boring Trip
A week of work on walls
Acequia Data
Adobe above windows
Adventure Ride
Air
All Blocks Down
All that Dirt
Amazon
Architects
Are we Roof Ready?
Arrival in Arochuku
Arrival in German language school
Arrival in Nigeria
Atop Adobe Walls
Back to Ballard
Bathroom painting
Berlin and Model Railway
Bicycles
Big Hole
Bigger Holes for Trees
Bippen, Pictures, Wander plans, Beaverton
Birds seen at Las Penitas, Leon, Nicaragua
Birthday Parties
Bluegrass
Boards, not Bored
Bosch, Rhine, Düsseldorf
Boxes to Ship Home
Brief Walk
Broken Piston
Bucknell Delegation Leaves
Bustling
Cabinet Doors
Calabar - more than organs
Calabar Pipe Organs
Calabar Trip and Hint of Motorcycle
California to Taos
Cameroon and VW order
Cell Phone
Changes at St. Luke's
Christmas 1965
Churches around Blaubeuren
Cleaning up
Clearing out - Again
Close of Language School
Clover
Cold Again
Cold and Wet
Cold Outside
Cold, Friends, Drum Pot, and Organ Installations
Color Coat 1
Color Coat 2
Complicated Headers
Concrete
Console, Demonstration Organ, Sports Cars
Construction Bits 1
Deciduous Trees
Delivery, Jeeps, and Doctor
Details, Details
Ditching
Door Staining
Doors
Doors and Lintels
Drainage
Drink
Drip Irrigation
Drywall - 2
Drywall and wet stucco
Drywall Dust
Drywall Edges
Drywall Mud
Dull Drywall
Early March 1966 - a medley
Early Occupants
Education Boost
El Porvenir Coffee Cooperative
Electric Light
Electric on the side
Electric Windup
Electrical Inspection
Electrical work starts
Electrician Today
Electronics
Entrance Exams, Europe plans, Wet Travel
ERV vs. HRV
Eve and Morn
Family Organization in Arochuku
Ferdinand Cardenal, sj
Fill the Hole - Base Rock
Final Dig
Final Letter from Germany
Final Planting
Finished Slab
Finishing in Ciudad Sandino
Finishing Miscellany
Fire
First Adobe Wall Courses
First Days at JHC
First Full Day
First Interior Wall
First Remodel
First Two Windows
First Walls Rise
First Week Evaluation
Flat Roofs
Flies
Floor Slab Design
Flooring
Flying Insect control
Forming the Foundation Footings
Franken Houses
Frankfurt again, Shoes, and war
Front Door
Front Door Arrives
Front Door Installed
Furnishings Arrive
Garage Door
Garage Finished
Garage Layout and Plumbing
Garage status
Garden after one year
Garden beginnings
Garden Planning
Garden Progress 2018
Garden with flowers
German Wedding, German Jazz, Texan
Getting Settled
Ginning Cotton and a Second Dump Visit
Girls, Power, and Juju
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Granada Poetry
Grass
Grass Mystery
Greenery
Grout
Haarlem, Holland
Half-Timbered House, Gudrun, Weser
Half-Timbered Houses
Hard Water
Harvest Festival
Headed to Nicaragua
Heart Attack followup
Heat and Air Control
Heat at last
Heating Exchange
Heating Method
Heating system observation
Hiatus
Hiking and Cookies
Hole gets Bigger
Holes and Shrubs
Hotels
House Appearance
House Layout
House Plans, so far
House Rehabilitation
How does your Garden Grow?
How I got into Computers
Huge Papaya
Inside and Out
Insulation
Insulation below slab
Insulation Troubles
Intercity Transport
Interior Agony
Interior Doors
Internet Finale
Internet in Taos
Internet Mystery
Internet neighborhood
Internet Saga - Try 4
Internet Saga continued
Internet Struggles
Internet update
Intro to Peace Corps in Nigeria
January 1964
Jeep, VW, and I get a cold
Jeeps in Peace Corps
Just got here
Just say "No"?
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets - 2
Kitchen Layout
Kitchen Primed
Lack of Standards
Ladders
Landscape
Landscaping
Landscaping Begins
Landscaping Progress
Landscaping Update
Last-Minute Details
Lateral Ditch Cleaning
Lazy Day
Leaks Fixed
Leaving preparations
Leftover Day
Light Fixture Choices
Lighting
Lighting Installed
Lime Pit cleanup
Little Amplifier
Los Pueblos Blancos
Lunch
Managua Internet followup
Manger Scenes and More
Many Visitors Today
Mid-March 1965 - Practical Chemistry
Mixed Day
More Drip
More Drywall Mud
More Garden Work
More is not always better
More Painting
More Prep work
More Shrubs
More Walls
Motorcycle Trip through Central Africa
Move to Taos - 1
Moving
Moving In
My Fair Lady in German
My Philosophy
Narrow Appliances
Nearing Completion
Nearing the end
Neighborhood
Neuss Dedicated, Wanderings
Neuss Organ Installation
New Mexico
New VW
NGO activity and interest in Managua
No Salt
Noise
November 1963
Odds and Ends
One Month Remaining in Germany
Open House
Organ Rising, Friends, and Thoughts of Home
Organ-Building Vocabulary
Organists Tour from America
Organs, Road, and Catholics - and a Wedding!
Outside Doors
Outside Lighting
Paint the Roof
Painting
Painting
Painting Preparation
Painting the right color
Parapet Day
Partly in, Partly packed
Patio and Shrubs
Peripheral Heat Loss
Pipe Organs in Nigeria
Pipe Organs, Texts, Visas, Parasites, New Volunteer
Plantings - 2
Plantings 1
Plants for Taos
Plaster - Day 1
Plaster - Day 2
Plaster Prep and Plumbing Fixtures
Polystyrene Foam
Porch Beam
Porch Floor
Porch Prep
Porch Roof
Post-Plaster
Pouring the Slab
Power
Prep for pouring slab
Preparations, Polygamy, and the Pox
Prepare for Nicaragua
Prepare the Site
Prepare to Travel
Priorities for Building a New House
Progress organizing
Pumped Footings
Quiet
Radon Mitigation
Rain this morn
Rainwater Collection
Ready for Walls
Refinements
Rehabilitation, continued
Remodel #2
Remodel #4
Remote Construction
Repairs
Residential Community
Return from Granada
Revisit San Nicolás
Riot, Sickness, and Acoustics
Roaming - and Hint of a Big Trip
Rocks and Faucets
Rocks — So Far
Roof
Roof - 1
Roof - 2
Roof Gets Closer
Roof Insulation and Sewer
Roof Trusses
Roofing - full circle
Rooftop Activity
Rough-sawn Timbers
Sand
Saturday miscellany
Scraping Bottom
Security
Security System
Seed Collecting
Settling In as Renter
Settling In to Arochukwu
Sewer
Sewer Bench
Sheathing goes Quickly
Short Break
Short Day on the Job
Should I make a Video?
Shower floor
Shower Floor started
Shower Tile
Shrubs
Shrubs for Taos
Side Jobs
Sleepless Night
Slow Day
Slow Day #1
Smallpox, Ikoku, Teacher Strike
Social Organization - 2
Solar Hot Water
Solar Open House
Solar Slab Construction
Staining
Steel Shelving
Stepping Stones
Still Settling In
Street Music
Stripping Forms
Structural Engineering
Stump Removal
Stumps
Sunset Park
Taos Elders and Neighbors Together (TENT)
Taos Paella Cookoff
Taos School of Music - Concert
Taos Time
Taos Window
Tape - wallboard joint and masking
Teaching in Nigeria
Teaching Texts, Delta Travel, and Intelligent Women
Techie Catch-up
Technical School, Drafting, Pay, and Inflation
Temperature Measurements
TENT Database
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, Visas, Germany, and more
Thaw
The other half of building
The Xfinite Hassle
Thermal Lag
Think Song
Thinking about Soil
Thistles
Tile Shift
Time to move dirt
Tire Trouble and Teacher's Pay
To Leon and Back
to the Organ Shop
To the Pacific
Too Busy
Travel Begins
Travel Planning and Stammering
Travel Plans, Organ Building, and Sacrifice
Travel Plans, Pipe Organs, and Business Hours
Travel to Taos
Travel to Taos
Travels and Tinkers
Trees
Trees and Paths
Trees for Taos
Trees Out
Trellis
Trip South
Trip to California 1
Trip to California 2
Trip to Niger Delta
Tropical Spirit
Two more Trellises
Ugly Utilities
Unpacking
Upper Class in Nigeria Bush
Upwards
Used Clothing, Cooking Class, and Big Men
Utilities Started
Vacation, Turkey, Wedding, and New Volunteers
Ventilation - Hypothesis 2
Ventilation Ducts
Vietnam and German Doctors
View from the Outside
Vigas on Porch
Village visit
Virus, Lights, English, Garden
Walkways
Wall Varieties
Wallboard (aka Drywall)
Walls and Parapets
Water
Water and Wires
Water Collection - Operation
Water Heaters
Water in Taos
Water Softeners
Water Tanks Arrive
We visit the Dump
Weather Station - 1
Weather Station - 2
WeatherCam Saga
Wedding Tradition, Construction, Tourism
Weeds
What a Pain
Window Details
Window Hardware & Trusses
Window Screens
Window Specifics
Windows
Windows in Adobe
Winter 2017 Electronic Activity
Wiring Done
Wonderful Bach
Wood Trim
Wool Market
Work Day
Work Day
Written Language, Pipe Organs, Strike
Yellowstone in May
“Traditional” Construction
COVID-19 Response
Mid-West Travels
New Auto
Prius Experience
Heat Pump Installation
Arcata Adventure
Warm Garage
Solar Struggle
Heat Pump
Solar Progress
Obituary
Music
Photos
Science
Travels
Index of Blog Entries
Videos
Jim Ludden
Home
Ancestry
Creation Care
About Creation Care
Congregation Action
Education
October 2023
November 2023
December 2023
January 2024
February 2024
March 2024
April 2024
May 2024
June 2024
July 2024
August 2024
St James Buildings
Gov't Policy
Personal Action
Recommendations
Buildings
Power Sources
The Problem
Stuff I've Made
Cars
Fabric Art
Chasubles and Copes
Vestments
Embroidery
COVID-19 Memorial Quilt
Stoles
Models from Kits
Pipe Organs
Olympic Organ Builders
Portable Organ Kit
Database Design
Follow Me
Blog
A Boring Trip
A week of work on walls
Acequia Data
Adobe above windows
Adventure Ride
Air
All Blocks Down
All that Dirt
Amazon
Architects
Are we Roof Ready?
Arrival in Arochuku
Arrival in German language school
Arrival in Nigeria
Atop Adobe Walls
Back to Ballard
Bathroom painting
Berlin and Model Railway
Bicycles
Big Hole
Bigger Holes for Trees
Bippen, Pictures, Wander plans, Beaverton
Birds seen at Las Penitas, Leon, Nicaragua
Birthday Parties
Bluegrass
Boards, not Bored
Bosch, Rhine, Düsseldorf
Boxes to Ship Home
Brief Walk
Broken Piston
Bucknell Delegation Leaves
Bustling
Cabinet Doors
Calabar - more than organs
Calabar Pipe Organs
Calabar Trip and Hint of Motorcycle
California to Taos
Cameroon and VW order
Cell Phone
Changes at St. Luke's
Christmas 1965
Churches around Blaubeuren
Cleaning up
Clearing out - Again
Close of Language School
Clover
Cold Again
Cold and Wet
Cold Outside
Cold, Friends, Drum Pot, and Organ Installations
Color Coat 1
Color Coat 2
Complicated Headers
Concrete
Console, Demonstration Organ, Sports Cars
Construction Bits 1
Deciduous Trees
Delivery, Jeeps, and Doctor
Details, Details
Ditching
Door Staining
Doors
Doors and Lintels
Drainage
Drink
Drip Irrigation
Drywall - 2
Drywall and wet stucco
Drywall Dust
Drywall Edges
Drywall Mud
Dull Drywall
Early March 1966 - a medley
Early Occupants
Education Boost
El Porvenir Coffee Cooperative
Electric Light
Electric on the side
Electric Windup
Electrical Inspection
Electrical work starts
Electrician Today
Electronics
Entrance Exams, Europe plans, Wet Travel
ERV vs. HRV
Eve and Morn
Family Organization in Arochuku
Ferdinand Cardenal, sj
Fill the Hole - Base Rock
Final Dig
Final Letter from Germany
Final Planting
Finished Slab
Finishing in Ciudad Sandino
Finishing Miscellany
Fire
First Adobe Wall Courses
First Days at JHC
First Full Day
First Interior Wall
First Remodel
First Two Windows
First Walls Rise
First Week Evaluation
Flat Roofs
Flies
Floor Slab Design
Flooring
Flying Insect control
Forming the Foundation Footings
Franken Houses
Frankfurt again, Shoes, and war
Front Door
Front Door Arrives
Front Door Installed
Furnishings Arrive
Garage Door
Garage Finished
Garage Layout and Plumbing
Garage status
Garden after one year
Garden beginnings
Garden Planning
Garden Progress 2018
Garden with flowers
German Wedding, German Jazz, Texan
Getting Settled
Ginning Cotton and a Second Dump Visit
Girls, Power, and Juju
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Granada Poetry
Grass
Grass Mystery
Greenery
Grout
Haarlem, Holland
Half-Timbered House, Gudrun, Weser
Half-Timbered Houses
Hard Water
Harvest Festival
Headed to Nicaragua
Heart Attack followup
Heat and Air Control
Heat at last
Heating Exchange
Heating Method
Heating system observation
Hiatus
Hiking and Cookies
Hole gets Bigger
Holes and Shrubs
Hotels
House Appearance
House Layout
House Plans, so far
House Rehabilitation
How does your Garden Grow?
How I got into Computers
Huge Papaya
Inside and Out
Insulation
Insulation below slab
Insulation Troubles
Intercity Transport
Interior Agony
Interior Doors
Internet Finale
Internet in Taos
Internet Mystery
Internet neighborhood
Internet Saga - Try 4
Internet Saga continued
Internet Struggles
Internet update
Intro to Peace Corps in Nigeria
January 1964
Jeep, VW, and I get a cold
Jeeps in Peace Corps
Just got here
Just say "No"?
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets - 2
Kitchen Layout
Kitchen Primed
Lack of Standards
Ladders
Landscape
Landscaping
Landscaping Begins
Landscaping Progress
Landscaping Update
Last-Minute Details
Lateral Ditch Cleaning
Lazy Day
Leaks Fixed
Leaving preparations
Leftover Day
Light Fixture Choices
Lighting
Lighting Installed
Lime Pit cleanup
Little Amplifier
Los Pueblos Blancos
Lunch
Managua Internet followup
Manger Scenes and More
Many Visitors Today
Mid-March 1965 - Practical Chemistry
Mixed Day
More Drip
More Drywall Mud
More Garden Work
More is not always better
More Painting
More Prep work
More Shrubs
More Walls
Motorcycle Trip through Central Africa
Move to Taos - 1
Moving
Moving In
My Fair Lady in German
My Philosophy
Narrow Appliances
Nearing Completion
Nearing the end
Neighborhood
Neuss Dedicated, Wanderings
Neuss Organ Installation
New Mexico
New VW
NGO activity and interest in Managua
No Salt
Noise
November 1963
Odds and Ends
One Month Remaining in Germany
Open House
Organ Rising, Friends, and Thoughts of Home
Organ-Building Vocabulary
Organists Tour from America
Organs, Road, and Catholics - and a Wedding!
Outside Doors
Outside Lighting
Paint the Roof
Painting
Painting
Painting Preparation
Painting the right color
Parapet Day
Partly in, Partly packed
Patio and Shrubs
Peripheral Heat Loss
Pipe Organs in Nigeria
Pipe Organs, Texts, Visas, Parasites, New Volunteer
Plantings - 2
Plantings 1
Plants for Taos
Plaster - Day 1
Plaster - Day 2
Plaster Prep and Plumbing Fixtures
Polystyrene Foam
Porch Beam
Porch Floor
Porch Prep
Porch Roof
Post-Plaster
Pouring the Slab
Power
Prep for pouring slab
Preparations, Polygamy, and the Pox
Prepare for Nicaragua
Prepare the Site
Prepare to Travel
Priorities for Building a New House
Progress organizing
Pumped Footings
Quiet
Radon Mitigation
Rain this morn
Rainwater Collection
Ready for Walls
Refinements
Rehabilitation, continued
Remodel #2
Remodel #4
Remote Construction
Repairs
Residential Community
Return from Granada
Revisit San Nicolás
Riot, Sickness, and Acoustics
Roaming - and Hint of a Big Trip
Rocks and Faucets
Rocks — So Far
Roof
Roof - 1
Roof - 2
Roof Gets Closer
Roof Insulation and Sewer
Roof Trusses
Roofing - full circle
Rooftop Activity
Rough-sawn Timbers
Sand
Saturday miscellany
Scraping Bottom
Security
Security System
Seed Collecting
Settling In as Renter
Settling In to Arochukwu
Sewer
Sewer Bench
Sheathing goes Quickly
Short Break
Short Day on the Job
Should I make a Video?
Shower floor
Shower Floor started
Shower Tile
Shrubs
Shrubs for Taos
Side Jobs
Sleepless Night
Slow Day
Slow Day #1
Smallpox, Ikoku, Teacher Strike
Social Organization - 2
Solar Hot Water
Solar Open House
Solar Slab Construction
Staining
Steel Shelving
Stepping Stones
Still Settling In
Street Music
Stripping Forms
Structural Engineering
Stump Removal
Stumps
Sunset Park
Taos Elders and Neighbors Together (TENT)
Taos Paella Cookoff
Taos School of Music - Concert
Taos Time
Taos Window
Tape - wallboard joint and masking
Teaching in Nigeria
Teaching Texts, Delta Travel, and Intelligent Women
Techie Catch-up
Technical School, Drafting, Pay, and Inflation
Temperature Measurements
TENT Database
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, Visas, Germany, and more
Thaw
The other half of building
The Xfinite Hassle
Thermal Lag
Think Song
Thinking about Soil
Thistles
Tile Shift
Time to move dirt
Tire Trouble and Teacher's Pay
To Leon and Back
to the Organ Shop
To the Pacific
Too Busy
Travel Begins
Travel Planning and Stammering
Travel Plans, Organ Building, and Sacrifice
Travel Plans, Pipe Organs, and Business Hours
Travel to Taos
Travel to Taos
Travels and Tinkers
Trees
Trees and Paths
Trees for Taos
Trees Out
Trellis
Trip South
Trip to California 1
Trip to California 2
Trip to Niger Delta
Tropical Spirit
Two more Trellises
Ugly Utilities
Unpacking
Upper Class in Nigeria Bush
Upwards
Used Clothing, Cooking Class, and Big Men
Utilities Started
Vacation, Turkey, Wedding, and New Volunteers
Ventilation - Hypothesis 2
Ventilation Ducts
Vietnam and German Doctors
View from the Outside
Vigas on Porch
Village visit
Virus, Lights, English, Garden
Walkways
Wall Varieties
Wallboard (aka Drywall)
Walls and Parapets
Water
Water and Wires
Water Collection - Operation
Water Heaters
Water in Taos
Water Softeners
Water Tanks Arrive
We visit the Dump
Weather Station - 1
Weather Station - 2
WeatherCam Saga
Wedding Tradition, Construction, Tourism
Weeds
What a Pain
Window Details
Window Hardware & Trusses
Window Screens
Window Specifics
Windows
Windows in Adobe
Winter 2017 Electronic Activity
Wiring Done
Wonderful Bach
Wood Trim
Wool Market
Work Day
Work Day
Written Language, Pipe Organs, Strike
Yellowstone in May
“Traditional” Construction
COVID-19 Response
Mid-West Travels
New Auto
Prius Experience
Heat Pump Installation
Arcata Adventure
Warm Garage
Solar Struggle
Heat Pump
Solar Progress
Obituary
Music
Photos
Science
Travels
Index of Blog Entries
Videos
More
Home
Ancestry
Creation Care
About Creation Care
Congregation Action
Education
October 2023
November 2023
December 2023
January 2024
February 2024
March 2024
April 2024
May 2024
June 2024
July 2024
August 2024
St James Buildings
Gov't Policy
Personal Action
Recommendations
Buildings
Power Sources
The Problem
Stuff I've Made
Cars
Fabric Art
Chasubles and Copes
Vestments
Embroidery
COVID-19 Memorial Quilt
Stoles
Models from Kits
Pipe Organs
Olympic Organ Builders
Portable Organ Kit
Database Design
Follow Me
Blog
A Boring Trip
A week of work on walls
Acequia Data
Adobe above windows
Adventure Ride
Air
All Blocks Down
All that Dirt
Amazon
Architects
Are we Roof Ready?
Arrival in Arochuku
Arrival in German language school
Arrival in Nigeria
Atop Adobe Walls
Back to Ballard
Bathroom painting
Berlin and Model Railway
Bicycles
Big Hole
Bigger Holes for Trees
Bippen, Pictures, Wander plans, Beaverton
Birds seen at Las Penitas, Leon, Nicaragua
Birthday Parties
Bluegrass
Boards, not Bored
Bosch, Rhine, Düsseldorf
Boxes to Ship Home
Brief Walk
Broken Piston
Bucknell Delegation Leaves
Bustling
Cabinet Doors
Calabar - more than organs
Calabar Pipe Organs
Calabar Trip and Hint of Motorcycle
California to Taos
Cameroon and VW order
Cell Phone
Changes at St. Luke's
Christmas 1965
Churches around Blaubeuren
Cleaning up
Clearing out - Again
Close of Language School
Clover
Cold Again
Cold and Wet
Cold Outside
Cold, Friends, Drum Pot, and Organ Installations
Color Coat 1
Color Coat 2
Complicated Headers
Concrete
Console, Demonstration Organ, Sports Cars
Construction Bits 1
Deciduous Trees
Delivery, Jeeps, and Doctor
Details, Details
Ditching
Door Staining
Doors
Doors and Lintels
Drainage
Drink
Drip Irrigation
Drywall - 2
Drywall and wet stucco
Drywall Dust
Drywall Edges
Drywall Mud
Dull Drywall
Early March 1966 - a medley
Early Occupants
Education Boost
El Porvenir Coffee Cooperative
Electric Light
Electric on the side
Electric Windup
Electrical Inspection
Electrical work starts
Electrician Today
Electronics
Entrance Exams, Europe plans, Wet Travel
ERV vs. HRV
Eve and Morn
Family Organization in Arochuku
Ferdinand Cardenal, sj
Fill the Hole - Base Rock
Final Dig
Final Letter from Germany
Final Planting
Finished Slab
Finishing in Ciudad Sandino
Finishing Miscellany
Fire
First Adobe Wall Courses
First Days at JHC
First Full Day
First Interior Wall
First Remodel
First Two Windows
First Walls Rise
First Week Evaluation
Flat Roofs
Flies
Floor Slab Design
Flooring
Flying Insect control
Forming the Foundation Footings
Franken Houses
Frankfurt again, Shoes, and war
Front Door
Front Door Arrives
Front Door Installed
Furnishings Arrive
Garage Door
Garage Finished
Garage Layout and Plumbing
Garage status
Garden after one year
Garden beginnings
Garden Planning
Garden Progress 2018
Garden with flowers
German Wedding, German Jazz, Texan
Getting Settled
Ginning Cotton and a Second Dump Visit
Girls, Power, and Juju
Good, Bad, and Ugly
Granada Poetry
Grass
Grass Mystery
Greenery
Grout
Haarlem, Holland
Half-Timbered House, Gudrun, Weser
Half-Timbered Houses
Hard Water
Harvest Festival
Headed to Nicaragua
Heart Attack followup
Heat and Air Control
Heat at last
Heating Exchange
Heating Method
Heating system observation
Hiatus
Hiking and Cookies
Hole gets Bigger
Holes and Shrubs
Hotels
House Appearance
House Layout
House Plans, so far
House Rehabilitation
How does your Garden Grow?
How I got into Computers
Huge Papaya
Inside and Out
Insulation
Insulation below slab
Insulation Troubles
Intercity Transport
Interior Agony
Interior Doors
Internet Finale
Internet in Taos
Internet Mystery
Internet neighborhood
Internet Saga - Try 4
Internet Saga continued
Internet Struggles
Internet update
Intro to Peace Corps in Nigeria
January 1964
Jeep, VW, and I get a cold
Jeeps in Peace Corps
Just got here
Just say "No"?
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets
Kitchen Cabinets - 2
Kitchen Layout
Kitchen Primed
Lack of Standards
Ladders
Landscape
Landscaping
Landscaping Begins
Landscaping Progress
Landscaping Update
Last-Minute Details
Lateral Ditch Cleaning
Lazy Day
Leaks Fixed
Leaving preparations
Leftover Day
Light Fixture Choices
Lighting
Lighting Installed
Lime Pit cleanup
Little Amplifier
Los Pueblos Blancos
Lunch
Managua Internet followup
Manger Scenes and More
Many Visitors Today
Mid-March 1965 - Practical Chemistry
Mixed Day
More Drip
More Drywall Mud
More Garden Work
More is not always better
More Painting
More Prep work
More Shrubs
More Walls
Motorcycle Trip through Central Africa
Move to Taos - 1
Moving
Moving In
My Fair Lady in German
My Philosophy
Narrow Appliances
Nearing Completion
Nearing the end
Neighborhood
Neuss Dedicated, Wanderings
Neuss Organ Installation
New Mexico
New VW
NGO activity and interest in Managua
No Salt
Noise
November 1963
Odds and Ends
One Month Remaining in Germany
Open House
Organ Rising, Friends, and Thoughts of Home
Organ-Building Vocabulary
Organists Tour from America
Organs, Road, and Catholics - and a Wedding!
Outside Doors
Outside Lighting
Paint the Roof
Painting
Painting
Painting Preparation
Painting the right color
Parapet Day
Partly in, Partly packed
Patio and Shrubs
Peripheral Heat Loss
Pipe Organs in Nigeria
Pipe Organs, Texts, Visas, Parasites, New Volunteer
Plantings - 2
Plantings 1
Plants for Taos
Plaster - Day 1
Plaster - Day 2
Plaster Prep and Plumbing Fixtures
Polystyrene Foam
Porch Beam
Porch Floor
Porch Prep
Porch Roof
Post-Plaster
Pouring the Slab
Power
Prep for pouring slab
Preparations, Polygamy, and the Pox
Prepare for Nicaragua
Prepare the Site
Prepare to Travel
Priorities for Building a New House
Progress organizing
Pumped Footings
Quiet
Radon Mitigation
Rain this morn
Rainwater Collection
Ready for Walls
Refinements
Rehabilitation, continued
Remodel #2
Remodel #4
Remote Construction
Repairs
Residential Community
Return from Granada
Revisit San Nicolás
Riot, Sickness, and Acoustics
Roaming - and Hint of a Big Trip
Rocks and Faucets
Rocks — So Far
Roof
Roof - 1
Roof - 2
Roof Gets Closer
Roof Insulation and Sewer
Roof Trusses
Roofing - full circle
Rooftop Activity
Rough-sawn Timbers
Sand
Saturday miscellany
Scraping Bottom
Security
Security System
Seed Collecting
Settling In as Renter
Settling In to Arochukwu
Sewer
Sewer Bench
Sheathing goes Quickly
Short Break
Short Day on the Job
Should I make a Video?
Shower floor
Shower Floor started
Shower Tile
Shrubs
Shrubs for Taos
Side Jobs
Sleepless Night
Slow Day
Slow Day #1
Smallpox, Ikoku, Teacher Strike
Social Organization - 2
Solar Hot Water
Solar Open House
Solar Slab Construction
Staining
Steel Shelving
Stepping Stones
Still Settling In
Street Music
Stripping Forms
Structural Engineering
Stump Removal
Stumps
Sunset Park
Taos Elders and Neighbors Together (TENT)
Taos Paella Cookoff
Taos School of Music - Concert
Taos Time
Taos Window
Tape - wallboard joint and masking
Teaching in Nigeria
Teaching Texts, Delta Travel, and Intelligent Women
Techie Catch-up
Technical School, Drafting, Pay, and Inflation
Temperature Measurements
TENT Database
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving, Visas, Germany, and more
Thaw
The other half of building
The Xfinite Hassle
Thermal Lag
Think Song
Thinking about Soil
Thistles
Tile Shift
Time to move dirt
Tire Trouble and Teacher's Pay
To Leon and Back
to the Organ Shop
To the Pacific
Too Busy
Travel Begins
Travel Planning and Stammering
Travel Plans, Organ Building, and Sacrifice
Travel Plans, Pipe Organs, and Business Hours
Travel to Taos
Travel to Taos
Travels and Tinkers
Trees
Trees and Paths
Trees for Taos
Trees Out
Trellis
Trip South
Trip to California 1
Trip to California 2
Trip to Niger Delta
Tropical Spirit
Two more Trellises
Ugly Utilities
Unpacking
Upper Class in Nigeria Bush
Upwards
Used Clothing, Cooking Class, and Big Men
Utilities Started
Vacation, Turkey, Wedding, and New Volunteers
Ventilation - Hypothesis 2
Ventilation Ducts
Vietnam and German Doctors
View from the Outside
Vigas on Porch
Village visit
Virus, Lights, English, Garden
Walkways
Wall Varieties
Wallboard (aka Drywall)
Walls and Parapets
Water
Water and Wires
Water Collection - Operation
Water Heaters
Water in Taos
Water Softeners
Water Tanks Arrive
We visit the Dump
Weather Station - 1
Weather Station - 2
WeatherCam Saga
Wedding Tradition, Construction, Tourism
Weeds
What a Pain
Window Details
Window Hardware & Trusses
Window Screens
Window Specifics
Windows
Windows in Adobe
Winter 2017 Electronic Activity
Wiring Done
Wonderful Bach
Wood Trim
Wool Market
Work Day
Work Day
Written Language, Pipe Organs, Strike
Yellowstone in May
“Traditional” Construction
COVID-19 Response
Mid-West Travels
New Auto
Prius Experience
Heat Pump Installation
Arcata Adventure
Warm Garage
Solar Struggle
Heat Pump
Solar Progress
Obituary
Music
Photos
Science
Travels
Index of Blog Entries
Videos
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