new house pics

[chelidon]

A bunch of new Casa Chaos pics up, including:

Installation of the wood boiler and heat storage tank (delivery and installation of the tank is here, and arrival of the wood boiler is here)

Some lovely mid-November shots of the woods and the larger stream starting here

And a series of pictures of a mischievous weekend at the Casa with some very dear friends, including a couple of our favorite New Orleans evacuees (now back home) who came to stay with us for a bit, starting here. It was all the fault of those wild New Orleans folks, I swear, they made us drink evil green fluids and do wicked stuff. Trixy southerners they were, we poor staid innocent Yankees may never be the same.

Comments

[mystfemme.livejournal.com]

I know I'm supposed to be looking at the heat storage tank but I'm enamored of that door. Those hinges! Mmmm!

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

mmmm, indeed! I know just what you mean. The folks who had the house built were big fans of decorative ironwork. All of the doors here are lovely iron-bound wood, and that back basement door is one of the least of them. I'll have to post a pic of the front door at some point. And the iron gates that used to be in the dining room (you can kind of see them here (http://www.casachaos.net/Casa_Chaos2005/pages/page_55.html) are sitting up in the barn waiting for me to put them up in the woods as the entrance to a secret garden, or perhaps in the barn, portions of which I'll be converting to dorm space in the early Spring, before our Ritual Arts Camp (http://www.livejournal.com/users/chelidon/78778.html) (which is down to 4 slots open, without any advertising or announcement to community email lists, woo hoo!)

[draiguisge.livejournal.com]

Heh! Oh dear, incriminating evidence of me having my belly button used as a scotch receptacle ... ;)

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

*wicked grin* Hee hee. I'm afraid there's no plausible deniability this time, my dear! But you don't seem to be complaining overmuch, methinks!

[lylythe-strega.livejournal.com]

From several different angles, yes! (*wicked grin*)

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

"It was all the fault of those wild New Orleans folks, I swear, they made us drink evil green fluids and do wicked stuff. Trixy southerners they were, we poor staid innocent Yankees may never be the same."

Ah. Green chartreuse and boodling.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was Charteuse elixir, which is kind of like Chartreuse concentrate (yikes). Stunning, powerful stuff, not possible to get in this country, our guests had a small supply which they brought with them. And navel-sipping has definitely been a Casa Chaos tradition for many years, fer sure.

[lylythe-strega.livejournal.com]

Yes - the elixir tends to mostly evaporate before you've had a chance to swallow it. (*boggle*)