The truth be known: I may never finish the backyard. I suppose I could if it was a sterile environment isolated from the planet's environment and never a whim to my creativity ( Read more... )

After working maybe five hours today, I have completed restoring the rain barrel #3 pedestal. Unlike the original pedestal, this one has a 4-5 inch base of gravel with some sand on top for leveling. The previous one was built on dirt. It was fine but beginning to lean when I took it apart to prepare for the backroom work. This time it shouldn't ( Read more... )

Today I extended the walkway in the backyard by 4 feet and added three scalloped border pieces. Last night I prepared one rainbarrel to be moved ( Read more... )

I got up a half-hour early and have been at it now for 14-hours. It has been a long day, but we've made progress ( Read more... )

This weekend will be about digging, recharging and attending ( Read more... )

Spent most of the day on Tuesday soaking in what I could from a super fast series of presentations about a new "thing" at work. All of the speakers were difficult to understand (they were all Chinese, from Taiwan) and only seconds were spent on each image. Nevertheless I got to meet with people. Traffic there and back was good because the ( Read more... )

Phase One of a revamped backyard gutter drainage system has started ( Read more... )

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After coffee and breakfast with CBS Sunday Morning, I took our custom light fixture back to Hippo Hardware to be shortened. They understood. It will be another couple of weeks before we get it back, but it will be better ( Read more... )

An episode of This Old House I was watching this past week showed them using TSP to clean grease and grime off old wood ( Read more... )