Slowly but surely, it’s getting there. After getting rid of the ants, we got some spray foam and drywall to fix the ingress area under the window sill. I’ve always had an issue doing drywall work because it’s such a pain in the ass to cut. In carving out pieces from the 8 x 4…

So awhile back I noticed that ants had been making a track into the attic. I put some bait traps out and then I saw them on the other north side window. I sprayed it and tons of dead ant bodies fell out and I thought that would be it. I had seen them inside…

Made a trek to Harbor Freight today and continued progress on the back room. Needed a scraper that was longer than 12 inches so got the 48 inch floor scraper. It made short work of scraping the floor and getting the remnants of carpet padding and glue off the floor. Still a bit of work…

While I still feel that DeWalt is the de-facto standard when it comes to cordless tools, I’ve always had a soft spot for Ryobi. They’re less expensive and for what I do, they’ve always been perfect. But the one thing that’s always bothered me is the cost of the ‘real’ batteries. Like $90 apiece and…

I’m sort of in the process of spring cleaning as we’re coming into fall. My thought is that if I start now I stand a chance of maybe having spring cleaning done by spring. Also starting a workout regime to have a summer body but that’s another post. But the premise is that I took…

With our absence, the lawn has run it’s course under the summer heat and we’ve had a bumper crop of goathead stickers. It took me all day but I managed to pull the vast majority of them and then do an initial cut on the highest level which was bagged. I also edged and trimmed…

I saw some sand burr plants in the grass so I re-applied the pre-emergent although I think that I used less water than I should have, evidently there are 8 pint to a gallon not 16, oh well, still did the right area so it should be fine.

Finally got the last stuff back into the master bedroom and got the gun safe cleaned out to boot. We left out one chest of drawers and didn’t put the refrigerator back in the bedroom. I just didn’t see the need for it anymore I guess. We may decommission it and store it for another…

As I’ve grown older, I get particular about my yard tools. As much as I’d like a motorized jet backpack like my neighbor, with the small property I have, I’ll stick with the electric. And not the wireless, with my fathers passing I have about half a mile of extension cords so give me a…