Since I'm having such a hard time keeping warm tonight, and since I've cleaned out the living room enough to get to the fireplace, I figured I'd build a fire.


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It took a bit, but I bashed out the brick that was in the door sill, and discovered that the previous idiot owner had simply nailed raw 2x4s to the concrete underneath. Untreated wood in proximity to concrete rots. The sill pretty much just crumbled to dust, and had let enough moisture in that the brickwork was pretty much destroyed anyway ( Read more... )

( Engineering methods 101 )

( noodles. )

( AC/DC - BC/AD = ? )

I'm kind of preparing for the economy to take a great waffling Cleveland Steamer before I get too far into the plans for the house construction. I had wanted to do a garage this year, but after getting a couple of estimates that started at $30k, it was pretty obviously not gonna happen. To even consider something like that is gonna take a refi, and ( Read more... )

Waking up this morning was something of a chore; I could still stand to sleep for a while yet. It was a pretty full weekend. Full and happy.

( detailement )

500 on the bike tonight, and all of the molds are screwed together. Now I need to do end caps and an insert to make them more hollow.

( Tonight, the jig is up (eww). )

( More to do )