We just got back from dropping the Subaru off at the shop that changed the timing belt a month ago. It seems that they forgot to tighten the bolt that holds the crankshaft pulley on ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted anything about the flipping house, so here's a list of everything we've done to it (that I can remember ( Read more... )

Photos of water droplets on mars: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/17161866.html

A half hour at 350 degrees F, or 20 minutes on broil and the door glass is cool to the touch! It seems to have some sort of coated low-e glass.

Wow, the gout drug is really helping! I'm not in any pain unless I try to walk and it seems to be getting better as the day goes on. Compared to last night when I was in constant pain in spite of taking a vicodin, that's a huge improvement!

I woke up Sunday morning with a lot of pain in my right big toe. Taking lots of ibuprofen made it bearable, but hard to walk. Monday was about the same in the morning, but by evening I couldn't get my sandal back on. Today was even worse ( Read more... )

After I made the permanent power connection to the oven I realized that it was easy to tip the oven side to side, even if it is insanely heavy. So, I tipped it one way, slipped a concrete block under one side, tipped it the other way, slipped in a block, and repeated with 2x lumber until it was nearly the correct height for installation. Then, I ( Read more... )

When we first made plans for the kitchen remodel, we bought a double wall oven on ebay. It was a $2500 oven that had been a demo at a local appliance shop, that we got for about $500. (similar to this one: http://www.lowes.com/ ( Read more... )

I'm taking a van load of old kitchen to the dump today. After that, the van will be empty so I can pick up the countertop for the part of the kitchen we're working on ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of the kitchen cabinets.

First, here's one of a cabinet that I had just glued together:


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