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The green is Uladh. The arrows point to Armagh, the king’s seat in Ashling’s time, and Dublin, which didn’t exist as such until the Vikings founded it in the ninth century. (I wanted to show you where it is because of Grump’s birthmark, and because today it’s the capital of the Republic of Ireland.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611342135481-Z03SVRVCSTH24KGLPA1W/crannog.jpg Ashling's Ireland A reconstructed crannog at Craggaunowen in County Clare, Ireland. The photo is from a blog post by archaeologist John Bedell, which also shows a real crannog being unearthed by archaeologists. http://benedante.blogspot.com/2012/11/drumclay-crannog.html https://www.ellenbooraem.com/my-messy-desk daily 0.75 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611089734741-TAREJZT3ETR5PK9RW07Q/eb+and+tina.jpg My Messy Desk My friend Tina (right) and me in front of the wall with the fairies. Behind the station wagon is the house with the dragon in the attic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611088773534-HOMUOW4P7AM9QF28B7A5/the+funnies.jpg My Messy Desk My father and I share the funnies. I was a little over a year old, I think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611431684668-LVAINTSCTCCAEQ8YI2AS/R%26E+%26+holly.JPG My Messy Desk Rob, Holly the Dog, and me on our porch in Maine. 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Click to embiggen it. https://www.ellenbooraem.com/degas daily 0.75 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611436397091-WISM6JUSAD2OFAC6IKO1/degas-prima-ballerina-lrg.jpg Degas Prima Ballerina, 1876. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611436480477-SF7RAWEDNHEVH948H9LU/degas-absinthe-lrg.jpg Degas The Glass of Absinthe, c.1877. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611436617732-89IJO0LM1P7X4AB52U2T/degas-musicians-lrg.jpg Degas Musicians in the Orchestra, 1872. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437597467-F07EN59YN0KFF7YN65XT/Bell-charleston-lrg.jpg Degas Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Fireplace decorations, 1920s? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437757850-3U1WV8XY9TXPSY4K8WLU/da-vinci-Mona_Lisa-lrg.jpg Degas Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1506 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611693965623-R6PP0PM1N8FN1SPZHY0C/PIcasso-Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon-lrg.jpg Degas Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, (1907) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611694038716-X1O8CWJCIM6Z2PGQHXZ9/van-gogh-sunflowers-lrg.jpg Degas Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1888 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611694073152-1AVP1TH81WA0S6LY698O/Versailles_Palace-lrg.jpg Degas Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708) and others, The Palace of Versailles, designed and redesigned c. 1661- 1789 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437618139-T9VXZ1FTU7DANF21HTEP/bell-poppies-lrg.jpg Degas Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) Iceland Poppies, 1909 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437779000-EIVR378PTDN3PL052U4N/Manet_Young_Flautist-lrg.jpg Degas Édouard Manet (1832-1883) The Fifer, 1866 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611693986348-CQGFM5FS6BURB9W2OSSE/Rubens_Venus_at_a_Mirror-lrg.jpg Degas Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Venus at the Mirror, 1615 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611694053185-0M1MG1H2LOX004QT4CW9/Venus_de_Milo_Louvre-lrg.jpg Degas Unknown Greek artist Venus de Milo, c. 130-100 B.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437708427-TI5FVSLQ4RFIT0QXFQ90/cezanne-still-life-lrg.jpg Degas Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) Still Life: Drapery, Pitcher, and Fruit Bowl 1893-1894 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611437794792-TMJSYK8444YUACWTBF7N/Matisse-La_Bateau-lrg.png Degas Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Le Bateau, 1953 (This is the artwork the Museum of Modern Art hung upside down for 46 days. Or 47 days, depending on who’s talking. Mellie calls it a painting, but it’s actually shapes cut out of painted paper.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611694014003-3T7B92VQG5JK85UHEQ4M/Titian-salome-lrg.jpg Degas Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (c. 1490-1576) Salome, 1515 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611694110412-KHD1PQ4GQILY40TCH510/Watteau-The_Embarktion_for_Cythera-lrg.jpg Degas Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) A Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717 (This is the era when the Parvi learned to love fancy clothes) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611696309768-PG6FNDHS8TI96XFWKOH3/Watteau-The-Sulky-Woman-lrg.jpg Degas Jean-Antoine Watteau The Sulky Woman, 1719 https://www.ellenbooraem.com/evolution-of-a-goatman daily 0.75 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611598851215-I9TZ2HKB9I0OIW9BKB03/gman+1973.jpg Evolution of a goatman The Goatman, c. 1973 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1611599791863-ZDPGMKH4H2K6RFICTY8W/powerpoint_02.JPG Evolution of a goatman Medford, the Goatman, and the Goatman’s dog, around 1980. 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I am fetchingly dressed, don’t you think? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619280697128-6XUHQ8JTMT3NBXKPBODO/backhoe.jpg Two-handed hammerer Contractor Mike Fowler digs the foundation. Thanks to all our tree-clearing, he christened our future home “Stumphenge.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619193603501-B70T1NFHXZHOCA6KKM8J/foundation.jpg Two-handed hammerer Forms ready to pour our foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619280569214-LB8AHZXWOX5DB8NERFG0/first%2Bdeck.jpg Two-handed hammerer The foundation complete, with the first floor joists put together. The ladder is poking out of our future bulkhead (outside entrance to the cellar), sometimes a handy place to store garden produce after harvest. Again, I’m a fashion plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619197962122-O5DVD3GGU3FPNTC654N1/wall+goes+up.jpg Two-handed hammerer Friends and neighbors help Rob (right) raise the walls on the first floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200808755-PDFZD1J4KVS2DBLQ23FQ/hearth.jpg Two-handed hammerer Rob creating our hearth, using mortar and rocks he backpacked up from the shore of Herrick Bay. Mortar is a combination of cement, fine sand, and lime, and you use it when you’re working with bricks and stone. The final hearth shows up in the finished living room photo below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200840137-VOIA6O8R2TVUCUZA3QBX/living+room+then.jpg Two-handed hammerer I’m standing in the living room to take this picture. The dining room is behind the stairs with the three windows. That’s the front mudroom to the right. The stairs were in exactly that state when we moved in, except I think we painted the plywood treads, and they stayed that way for a few years. Rob was still trimming out the windows and doors after moving day, and I was still varnishing and painting, but all that came together pretty quickly, as I recall. (Time may have softened the memory.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200258158-4Y0HGUHK2UL9DHCFSYIX/closing+in.jpg Two-handed hammerer Almost closed in. The color on the tree to the left indicates we were in a hurry at this point—you definitely want the roof boarded up before the snow falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200291993-ATGELLTS8FXF4PDS5G0W/typar.jpg Two-handed hammerer Snug and ready for winter, windows in and everything. That silver stuff on the walls is called Typar, which protects the wooden walls and helps keep the heat in. Rob eventually nailed cedar shingles over it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200330796-3CWTVPCN2NBOYVMS23NK/interior+framing.jpg Two-handed hammerer The bathroom framed up on the second floor. To the right is my future office. I’m standing in the future bedroom to take the picture. Below, also in the bathroom, I’m tucking pink fiberglass insulation between the window and its frame. I did a lot of insulating, and can report that that fluffy pink fiberglass you see on the walls is extremely itchy when its fibers go down your neck, as they always do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619201136726-9EDI16MDWAZLYZIKSQ60/ellen+insulates.jpg Two-handed hammerer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200878645-T5UZWA279XW5ESLBISLJ/living+room+now.jpg Two-handed hammerer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff9ff646bbc7c34529aca39/1619200912852-5FXZCAYC3EMEH9Y92FY5/snow+and+lights+2.jpg Two-handed hammerer https://www.ellenbooraem.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2025-06-10