Rain, rain go away

So, big plans to get the first coat of stucco on the house are being thwarted by the on-again, off-again rain we're getting. Tomorrow seems to be an OK forecast so I've got a bunch of help coming and we're hoping the weather will allow us to get it all scratch coated in one day.

I haven't taken recent progress shots off my camera for awhile, but here's a shot from about 3 weeks back before we framed the roof. It should give you a basic idea of what we're doing to the house.



When things settle down a bit I'll take the time to learn how this whole blog software works and get more into linking things, but for now just wanted to drop an image in and make sure I understood the basics a bit.

Things are starting to come together for my next big gym project. It will be located in Riverside, California and will be the second gym for Hangar 18 (another SoCal gym owned by my friend Zach Shields). The gym is one I did the design on and I'm very psyched on it. It should provide the best roped climbing terrain in the region and a ton of good bouldering terrain. Once we get underway I'll likely post some shots here.

Also have some shaping assignments coming up for Climb It and Project Holds, as well as (hopefully) the release of some new shapes I did a while back for VooDoo Holds. Shaping is a huge creative outlet for me and it's another thing I haven't been able to do while we've been working on the house. As happy as I am on how our home is coming together, I definitely look forward to getting back to my normal way of life.

Hope things are dry wherever you are...

The light at the end of the tunnel?

So, I miss climbing.

It's been about 6 weeks since I touched stone (or plastic for that matter). We've been doing a big (1600 sqft) addition to the home we built a few years back and I've been doing a good part of the work myself. What I haven't been doing, I've been coordinating and overseeing. I figure we're a little more than halfway there. Most of the finishes have been selected. New entry door, cabinets, wood flooring, etc. have been ordered. Now we're just taping the drywall and working on smaller tasks here and there around the house.

While it's nice to have the huge portions behind me, I kind of miss the madness of the last month and a half. I feel like I'm forgetting something and I'm not quite sure what to do with myself with the little bit of a breather I've been given lately.

Carla's looking at paint samples and those are really the final decisions to be made. While I want to be a part of the final selections, she always does a good job with that kind of thing and the initial decisions are hers alone to make.

This addition is the final phase (of three) in transforming our home into what we first wanted to build 10 years ago. It will be nice to have it finally complete. Although then it will be time to do the rest of the property (landscaping, hardscape, etc.).

Anyhow it will be good to get back to climbing and the rest of my normal lifestyle activities. In fact, I've got a big new climbing gym to build in Riverside so I guess I'll just be swapping one project for another. Still looking forward to this being done though.

Something New

Just set this up and I'm not sure how often I'll use it, but a good friend of mine said that if I don't document things as they happen I'll forget all the good experiences that come my way. I'm sure that at some point my memory will not be what it is today, so he may have a point.

Anyhow, this is something entirely new to me, so we'll see what happens...no promises though.