First Smoke on the New Porch!

[autumnfog]

The porch looks great! Love the muted colors.

 

[chilllucky]

The porch looks great! Love the muted colors.

Thanks! We tried to take cues from the surroundings as much as we could. So inside or out, you ought to be able to line up the color of the constructed bit in your vision to a natural bit also in view.

 

[ssjones]

Congratulations! Having must made a big move, I understand the satisfaction of nearing the finish line!

 

[AroEnglish]

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Last exterior details! Lights and a slow speed fan. Landscaping is done, also - so it's now a single step up and down from the porch.

Finally: the teak bench my father and I made together probably 25-odd years ago. Thinking of his memory as I celebrate the milestone with a bowl from a just opened tin of Russ Oullette's Acadian Gold I had been saving in the first pipe I ever bought or smoked way back in 1992.

We still have a ton of work to do on the inside, but the porch feels pretty done now, so this'll probably be the last update for a while. I don't even have the built-in pipe display case on my radar yet.

Thanks for virtually joining me on this journey to make a comfortable place to sit and smoke a pipe. PM me if you're ever passing through Green County, WI and I'll be happy to share the bench with you!

Wonderful! Thanks for keeping us posted. Have you and the wife been able to share a bowl there together yet?

 

[OzPiper]

Wishing you many happy smokes on your new patio

And keep the updates coming esp when you complete your pipe and tobacco storage

 

[daveinlax]

Looks Great! Call Orkin to get ahead of the spiders.

 

[chilllucky]

Wonderful! Thanks for keeping us posted. Have you and the wife been able to share a bowl there together yet?

We've shared many along the way. She's out of town for a couple of weeks, but we'll try and make an event of it when she gets back.

 

[AroEnglish]

We've shared many along the way. She's out of town for a couple of weeks, but we'll try and make an event of it when she gets back.

Yeah those are the pipes I was thinking about. Have you smoked them together already?

 

[chilllucky]

Not yet. We've been waiting for the house to be some level of finished first. Occupancy Permit Inspection will be pretty soon. Probably after that.

 

[chilllucky]

Not an update per SE - but I feel like a milestone has been passed and wanted to remark on it.

I've been up on the property (2 1/2 hours from our condo in Chicago) all week on my own. Working on the house while my spouse is away on vacation. It's the most time I've spent here consecutively, and certainly the most time alone here cumulatively in the 9 years we've owned the land

Just tonight, I noticed that I must be retiring to the "smoking porch" at about the same time every night, because I am actively aware of the phase of the moon as it's waxed over the last 6 nights.

This is exactly what this spot, and this next phase of our lives is for. A time of slow-paced noticing our surroundings. It's very romantic, but I'm ok with that this time.