Namaste!

The first photo is the view from the Master Bedroom. We will have a door from M/B to the back yard. Initially we were thinking of having a sliding door but we might change it to a french door.

The second photo is from my office. We will also have a sliding door from it opening to the back yard. This room also have two other big windows. Lots of light!

The third photo is the view from the bathroom. We will have a glass block window on the south corner.

Tomorrow they will start framing the roof.

In 2000 a group of musicans in Oakland created the idea of music analysis. What they do is that they capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level categorizing them into musical attributes or “genes”.

So what does it do for you?

You can go on their website (Pandora), enter the name of an artist or album you like and they create a radio station for you. It is free, with commerial or $36/year without commerical. You can create up tp 100 radio station. The catch is that you can’t specifically play a song or skip too often.
For instance they analyse Niaz music as follow:
“Based on what you told us so far we’re playing this track because it features indian influences, middle eastern influences, a smooth female vocal, a thru-composed chorus and a tight kick sound.”

1 cup water, 1/2 cup butter, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1 cup all-purpose flour, 4 eggs

In a saucepan combine water, butter and salt. Bring to boiling. Add flour all at once, stir well. Cook and stir till mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat, cool for 10 minutes. Then add eggs one at a time, beating well with wooden spoon after each addition.

Drop dough by a tablespoon onto a greased baking sheet. Bake in 400 oven for 30 to 35 minutes or till golden. Cool on a wire rack. Cut tops, remove soft dough from inside. Fill with whipped cream. Make about 15 medium size cream puffs.
Whipped cream

1 cup whipping cream, 2 tablespoon suger, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 table spoon Amareto (optional)
In a chilled bowl combine all ingredients. Beat well with chilled beaters of an electric mixer till it forms soft peaks.

We flew to LA on Sunday afternoon and drove up on Tuesday noon. We stayed with our close friends who we always miss.
The mega-monster, I should confess that I’ve never liked LA:

At Koan picking up our stuff. We rented a 10′ footer truck:

These are some photos of our purchase from Bali:

Wednesday morning I picked up 3 workers to unload the truck. The most challenging part was the statues. And it was even harder than it should be since our truck didn’t have any ramp.

This bench is meant to be in the outside Patio, but till the construction is done I decided to have it inside: