How large is the BRHBA? What are your major promotions each year?

Great to see the HBA is involved with lessening hunger in your area. Are there other regular charitable or other philanthropic efforts made each year by the association?

I’m starting a kitchen remodel soon and were planning to use a Rohl Fireclay apron front sink again and noticed you used one for your new kitchen. Whose did you use and what were your reasons for choosing that sink? Just curious.

Also, how do you & Joey like the soapstone so far?

Good to see you are all moved in to the new house. I’m looking forward to hearing more about the realization of the zero energy/PassivHaus goals as you go through your first winter.

I don’t know if you recall extending an invitation for me to stop by after my planned visit to the Solar Decathlon in DC this year, but it was a very gracious offer and would have been pretty well timed, less than a week before your hard hat tour. In any case, I was a bit too pressed by something I haven’t had to deal with much over the past few years… work. We have actually become a bit busy; not by the standards of 6 or 8 years ago, but compared to what we’ve become used to over the past 3 or 4 years anyway. As a result I decided to cancel my road trip to DC and therefore missed seeing all of the good work you’ve been doing in Charlottesville in addition to missing the Decathlon for the first time since ’05.

It must be pretty exciting as the completion of your new passive house home draws to a close. It has been fun to follow along with the blog posts, although those seem to have become a bit less frequent. Daily posts was a very ambitious idea, so if they become weekly it still works for those of us following your progress. It will be fun to see how the piano sound board works in the… was that the powder room?

Your comment about the color in the guest room made me think of letting you know what happened to the strange visitor you met via an email and to whom you extended a welcoming invitation. I still hope to get to visit Charlottesville some day, maybe next Spring, and check out some of your work a bit more first hand. Thanks again for your generous invitation and for sharing your building experiences with those of us following along in cyberspace.