pic dump: renovation and a foodblogging moment

This is a shot that goes straight down from the current kitchen floor (the kitchen's going to be completely transformed) to the laundry/utility room downstairs:



Below, a shot of the jajang-myeon my mother made. I did very little, in this case, except help with the concept. Note the pizzeria pepper flakes:



The next photo shows my right middle finger, nicked by the air conditioner. I was reminded of that line in the movie "Transformers," in which one character sees the claw marks in the wall and jokes that it's the handiwork of Wolverine from the X-Men.



Below, a view of my parents' bed in the daytime, when it functions as a storage device:



Next, a shot of the upstairs bathroom-- still unusable, but now with a bath:



The next few shots show the slow evolution of the porch into a dining room, and of the old dining room into an annex of the kitchen:













The new Carrier heat pump thingie sits atop our dead cat, who had been buried in that spot because it was where he liked to catch sunbeams. What a strange gravestone!



Lastly, a shot of the front bay window, in which you can see all the permits Dad had to print out, as mandated by Fairfax County codes:







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