Moving right along

This is Joe, who signed on to the paint crew a week or so ago when Santos was indisposed (Santos is back now, too).

He's giving the mango touch to the frame of the railing around the loft -- the same color as the soffits, but as usual light plays tricks, and it looks much lighter here than there.

I thought a lot about Joe Wednesday every time I started to feel sorry for myself about the windows, or about the HVAC guy delaying us yet again, or any other little setback.

Joe's apartment building on upper Whitehead burned down Tuesday night, and he's currently a guest of the Red Cross, with unknown housing prospects.