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Permit Acquired
This should be a celebrated moment in my adulthood! I actually got a permit to build the shed! Now mind you the only reason I went to the trouble with this is because the shed is on the back of the property and there’s an easement back there and I wasn’t sure how far away…
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Christmas Cookies
Tis the season for Christmas cookies and our household has them aplenty. Here Sandy is messing up the kitchen.
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Friends Passing
Even in this day and age you can still miss the passing of an old friend. I found out my old roommate Bill Adams passed a couple of years ago. Brain cancer of all things. It makes one stop and think. The older I get the more I’m stunned by the revelation that life is…
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Sandy’s Rock Art
So I married a girl with an artistic streak, talk about opposites attracting. I’m completely left brained seeing beauty in logic and science, my career in and addiction to computers is convincing evidence. Sandy is solidly right brained, social worker, loves beach sunsets, likes art and can paint. I can draw a pretty convincing stick…
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Lumberjack Day
I’ll be the first to tell you I HATE removing trees and shrubs. It has nothing to do with the labor, it’s easier than moving the friggin bricks and it’s fun to play with chainsaws. It’s the fact that it’s green vegetation and I love trees. But in the name of progress and reclamation of…
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Autumn Sunrise
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a morning person. But for whatever reason every now and again God sees fit to have me be awake to witness dawn breaking over this beautiful creation. It reminds me to try to make the most of the new day and that if there wasn’t darkness, you…
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More Bricks
As I was hauling more of these it occurred to me that they are going to have to be moved again, alas but only one more time. And I’ll have a skid steer to load and move them then. But I’m down to two pallets left so we’ve past half way mark. I’ll eventually get…
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3D – Print – AAA Battery Holder
So from yesterday, we were discussing how to rotate your AAA batteries when you’re changing them out. While I love the idea of this item, it really doesn’t work as cool as it looks, if the battery slide is empty and one has to slide all the way down it tends to get sideways and…
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Rechargeable Batteries
So for better or worse we’re kind of stuck with batteries. Wireless mice, flashlights, remotes galore. I personally feel it’s pretty wasteful to buy batteries and throw them out, just in my life alone I could have filled up a pretty good section of a land fill. So that leads me to rechargeable batteries. Now…
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Monday Progress
I got a helper with the pavers today, knocked out another 100 today and have the build/stage area at 300 sq/ft. Tomorrow I’ll put everything together to get the permit for building the shed. Slowly but surely we’re getting there.