The sideyard work is finished for now. It is definitely less junky and should be easier to maintain ( Read more... )

While listening to a massive mechanized effort to trim the grass and weeds around House 80, I worked outside to ( Read more... )

To-day I used my first vacation day of 2019 to do the following ( Read more... )

I think my weight is 163 pounds. If it is higher than that it is too much. If it is lower than that I am probably sick. After several days of shoveling, lifting and hammering for four hours each day, I feel physically fit ( Read more... )

I have to-day finished harvesting the whole bricks which came from our chimney. I broke a few, but got most of them into the walkway. I continued by finding and cleaning bricks from previous chimney demolitions in Vancouver and Portland ( Read more... )

Our roof is done and paid for ( Read more... )

*SET complete: filled up the tank for the truck, mailed all checks, deposited rent ( Read more... )

The roof is done. I picked up the detrius I could find...a few nails and screws, a few pieces of metal, some plastic, rope ends, wood...but just filled a small former cookie tin ( Read more... )

The roofing work continues ( Read more... )

As promised, to-day I set down newspapers around the back of the evergreen after weeding the area ( Read more... )