Kev n Jens Adventures: House Progress and The Getty

Feb 24, 2025 - We spent some time today working on the house (instead of playing). Then we went to the Los Osos Farmers Market, which is held every Monday 2-4:30. It's a great little market, with only locally grown produce and locally made items. We then tried the downtown pizza place, Nardonne's. They had a really nice bar, and we each got a personal pizza and split some wings. After dinner we walked to the Merrymaker for their weekly post-farmer's market band, from 5:00-7:00 (more our speed, the usual 8:00-10:00 bands are too late for us!)

a little work on the cabinets

lots of floor dusting to do

nice day for the Farmer's Market

dinner at Nardonne's

had to save the pie we bought at the market for later that evening

nice sunset colors over Hollister Peak

Feb 26, 2025 - Todd's here today, so we're back to the real work. We're trying to get the framing done on the master bedroom and the fireplace. My task was to figure out how we were going to match the flooring in the living room. We left a 5 x 10 foot hole in the living room, after we closed up the stairway. After talking to a few flooring places, we found we weren't going to be able to match the flooring, so we decided to use the flooring in the master to patch the living room, since it's the same flooring. Better to only have to put new flooring in the bedroom, than in the huge living room/dining room/kitchen area.

Todd's busy framing the spot for the new gas fireplace

Here's some of the flooring we saved from the master bedroom

the new nook in the master (from where the staircase used to be)

the new closet door is framed and the opening between the closet and bathroom is framed for a new wall

Feb 27, 2025 - More work today with Todd, and then a walk around downtown...a few beers and sunset at Baywood Park.

Kev's wearing Laurie's "bling" ear protection

finalizing the fireplace framing

Todd's on the roof

Kev's headed up next

A mock mantle and TV for the new fireplace

beer and ice cream at High St Deli. Half price beers every day for happy hour

next we walked over to Beerwood for $8 beers

and then back to High St before their $4 were also $8

Baywood Park

great place for the sunset

I took a "few" sunset pics

Tiny always looks good with a sunset in the background

pretty blues on the mountains and a line of ducks

one last stripey sunset pic

Feb 28, 2025 - We're headed to Laguna Beach for the weekend, to help Elaine and Ian pack up their house and move it all to the new house. On our 5 hour drive down the coast, we decided we'd stop at the Getty Center in LA, since we've never been there. We would have liked to visit the Getty Villa as well, but it is currently closed because of the LA fires from a few months ago. To visit the Getty Center you have to sign up for timed tickets (which are free, but it's $25 to park). The parking is at the bottom and there is a tram that takes you up to the museum) We got a 10:00AM ticket, which meant we had to leave Los Osos at 6AM. We spent about 3 hours at the museum and then drove the last hour (which turned into 2 hrs because of the LA traffic) to Laguna.

I love a good sunrise drive

Pretty fog over the fields

nice drive through the Los Padres National Forest

Google took us off the Highway, (because of traffic) through Santa Barbara.

The Getty had a small exhibition on Van Gogh's Irises. They analyzed what color the Irises were originally and found they were purple, while now, they are more blue

It was a lot of fun just exploring the grounds of the Getty

The views from every corner were amazing

Even the 405 looked good from way up here

nice bench

We did a 45 minute architecture tour that was quite interesting. Richard Meier is the architect of the Getty Center, which opened in 1997. It took 5 years and 1 billion dollars to build. It was built using travertine (16,000 tons of it) imported from Tivoli, Italy.

The Getty is well known for it's beautiful gardens. These are Crepe Myrtles, that were planted in a row

and when you look at the row from the end you only see one tree trunk

that's a big rainbow

Meier used this framing in many places at the Getty. This one frames the sky

the main plaza

beautiful day for lunch outside

the azaleas are blooming

The Gustave Caillebotte exhibit had just opened at the Getty. He is an impressionist that I don't know very much about. The painting in the background "Paris Street, Rainy Day" is one of the few paintings of Caillebotte that I know.

Hi Kev

Caillebotte mostly painted men, but when he painted women he liked to challenge the perceptions of women. Here he painted the woman large in the foreground and the man, small, as an afterthought. He is reading a novel, she is reading the paper.