Another weekend full of sawdust ( Read more... )

Hallow and welcome to another edition of "What the Hell am I Doing Here, Anyway, and Whose Underpants are These ( Read more... )

Project Season 2014, izwot.

This year, in addition to the usual frenzy or gardening, we've decided to build a deck off the screen porch which we built in 2012.

During warm weather, we spend much of our leisure time in the porch - mealtimes, reading, entertaining, or just snoozing in the shade. The original furnishings have been augmented with a ( Read more... )

My house has so many old, poorly done repairs ( Read more... )

When life is bugging me (as it is lately), I tend to DIVE into projects. Today I attacked the foyer, which has been in need of finishing ever since I rebuilt the front door frame SEVEN YEARS AGO and never finished ( Read more... )

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I live in an old industrial town, whose heyday started in the Victorian era and probably petered out in the 1950's or so ( Read more... )

Last night, dsign and I spent several hours trying to troubleshoot/repair the problems with the relatively-new gas clothes dryer bequeathed to me by makebi as part of his relocation to the Isle of Long. The dryer had been acting flaky for awhile with him, then it got repaired (with the able help of dsign, who replaced the main control board in it), then it got ( Read more... )

I am freeking EXHAUSTED from renovations.

Our friend makebi who is moving gave us his washer and dryer (much better models than ours), except the dryer needs fixing. I'm up to the task, but we are temporarily without a dryer while the old one is disconnected but the new one isn't working. I've got to pick up an adapter kit tomorrow to temporarily ( Read more... )

January:
The first weekend of the year (the traditional harbinger of things to come for the remainder) was quite decent, quiet, spent with friends. The rest of the month featured Dillon finally getting better after a year of sickness and starting to put on weight. There was a fabulous brunch (has it really been that long since the last one?) A ( Read more... )