Since my last update I haven’t personally set foot in 2 Wood, mostly because I work 40 hours a week and audit 3 classes at Pitt. However, from what I’m told serious progress has been made. We have the trim down in all 3 floors and the plaster down in all of the attic and most of the second floor. I can always tell when I get home and people have been working on the house because they look like coal miners — apparently there is a lot of soot inside those walls.
In other news, SIC has gone legit and started a bank account. Unfortunately we haven’t gotten our check card in the mail yet and have therefore not been able to set up online banking, but hopefully soon enough we will enter the 21st century.
And of course, the big news: SIC is in the process of buying our second house. Yeah, that’s right, we are multiple-homeowners. All doubting Thomases have my permission to put that in their pipes and smoke it. Bill Daniel, the owner of the house we’ve been living in through the winter, has decided to pack up and take his operation somewhere else. Of course his presence is a loss for many of us here in Braddock, but on the bright side we will own a house that stays warm and has running water and electricity, and in which we can continue to live while we work on 2 Wood. It looks pretty crummy, but once we’ve tackled one major renovation we can start planning a second. This also means that once Trey, Flynn, and Kiki move here we will have bedrooms for everyone. And speaking of Flynn and Trey, they made a guest appearance at 2 Wood for a day of demolition, and Flynn somehow managed to look like a chimney sweep even after several attempts to wash his face and hands. Having them around for a day was a nice reminder of what life will be like when the everyone gets here.
Welch and I have drafted a proposal for the overall structure of SIC as an umbrella collective that will embrace a wider circle of our friends and their creative endeavors and once I’ve had a chance to hear back from a few more people we will hopefully begin putting together something a little more official, and once this site goes live there will, if all goes well, be content on this blog pertaining to all sorts of things far more exciting than my ramblings about home-demolition.