After Pics

Compare this to this! The lot is gone, replaced by this yard and garden.

Opening the pool for reunion weekend.

That's Rachel, Darren, and Kendra on the steps. Kendra has one of those glow sticks.

Massive light collision. That's mercury vapor behind me, fluorescent on the porch, incandescent in the window, and a sodium vapor hotspot to the right.

When I was here in 2008, I took a similar shot but never descended the stairs. I didn't repeat that mistake this time. But I don't think that the basement was worked on much.

My first viewing of the basement. That space-age looking thing is the pool pump. It runs all the time.

Probably not a random placement of tubular objects.

The adjoining room.

This is an amazingly densely-wired house, which all converges at this corner, including a wall of electronics for a walk-in cooler (gray door).

The walk-in cooler is a little strange. It has big cracks and the rear wall doesn't appear to be attached. I didn't investigate whether there was anything beyond there. And although it may appear to have working illumination, that light is actually just my SB-900 flash. I love that thing.

My dad must have fallen in love with this house the moment he saw all this storage down here.

This is the basement doorway for the dumbwaiter. I took this shot looking down at this location from the kitchen. Sadly, I didn't play with this thing to figure out how it works. There's always next year, right?

I almost walked by this thing without realizing what it was. When did my folks turn the basement into a pleasure palace? Ostensibly those handcuffs would be attached to a collar around the passive player's neck. Or, god forbid, a nose ring. This is slightly heavier kink than I'm into. And it's so beyond Peter's idea of fun that he refused to be photographed like this, so he took this shot!

The vastly improved living room. Compare to this.

Dining Room. Compare to this.

Compare to this. Wow!

Kitchen. Compare to this.

Compare to this. The floor is probably still on the to-do list.

Compare to this. That fridge will cause all kinds of grief this week.

The breakfast room. I put my flash behind that chair to emphasize the detail in those doors. You can see the plain doors here.

The lower bath. Not much different here.