The time had come. For about a year I fought with a medieval style bar-and-plank lock for a door that didnt fit, and a second door (which also didn’t fit) that could only be opened by jumping, grabbing a rafter, and swinging back to kick open, all Batman like. While…
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We bought the place in August, 2010, moved in sometime in November and had been using the three-season porch as a pit to chuck all those weird whatcha-ma-call-its, we-might-need-thats and about $35 in empty beer bottles since day numero-uno. Yeppers… as you can imagine it was pretty dingy out there. …
So in our winter absence from the site (we were pretty busy), I’m looking back here and seeing that when last we left, the kitchen was still a disaster. Since that last drywall post we’ve installed the cabinets, done the back-splash, gotten the counter top, painted the walls, trimmed the…
God I can’t get enough of this system. So after a few heavy spring rainfalls, we realized that we needed to do something serious with the pump. It was kicking water out, sure, but the pipe wasn’t long enough, and all that water came right back in. One big perpetual…
Two weeks into the project and we finally started measuring the post locations for the front and sides where we planned on putting the spruce dogear. Keep a few things in mind when you’re gleefully running around the yard dreaming of the landscaping possibilities though or you might end up…
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