When we decided to take down the inside staircase (poor stunted irregular thing) in favor of the “outside” or porch staircase, we also necessarily committed ourselves to winterizing the porch,…
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Weekend Among other things, we got a fence up around our baby vegetable garden: The peas are extremely happy and we expect to harvest a bunch tomorrow in order to…
Some of you asked for a diagram: The challenge and a photo are in yesterday’s post.
Project du jour: Continue on the bathroom. Goal: Finish with the tub in position, leveled and test-fit, ready for plumber next week. Steps: Vacuum and sweep obsessively. Cut and install…
Thanks to Stephen D for tonight’s title. For eight or ten consecutive to-do lists, I have intended to accomplish “bathroom floor, studs, and shims.” Tonight, the item is crossed off!…
Jaison (yes, we learned this is how his name is spelt) is on a hiatus of some sort. They worked Saturday, which was remarkably kind, in order to maximize our…
Here are some pictures from the Back 40 of our property that I took today while exploring and picking raspberries: At almost any random spot in those scenes, if one…
With deceptive calm, I show you the finished gussets on one side of the upstairs: The gusset is the plywood sandwich (glued and screwed) stiffening the triangle between a rafter,…
Didn’t post yesterday, because I dumped half a glass of water on my laptop, and I had to let it dry. And Marsh forgot her spare laptop, which we found…
…when there will be no more gross rotten filthy demolition debris to sweep up and tote to a dumpster. But that was not this day. Friday ended with the second…