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Mending Fences

Over the weekend I took to the task of building a new gate for the side yard. The old gate was literally rotting away. It’s my first ever gate, and I’m quite proud of it. Took me about 6 hours to construct and hang it. The frame is made of redwood and features half-lap construction. [...]

Lumber Jacked

There are a couple of trees in my front yard that belong to the city. When we moved in a little over a year ago, we were told that we are not allowed to prune them or cut them down. There are very attractive and provide lots of nice shade, but unfortunately, they have very [...]

Dinette Set Update

As promised, here’s the before and after on the chairs.

They came out great. They now have a stone-colored vinyl covering that has the appearance of tweed fabric.

Dinette Set

Well, I finally found some chairs for our dining table, and I learned a little more about eBay, too. (Like don’t ever buy anything from there ever!) We totally love these chairs that we didn’t buy on eBay. They are yellow in color, but they look green in our dining room, so we’re having them [...]

If the women don’t find you handsome…

…they should at least find you handy.
I don’t know which describes me, but I’m trying my darndest to hedge any lack of good looks I might have. So with the workbench complete, I’ve turned myself over to building a set of shelves. Thanks again to the great plans over at HammerZone.com, I’ve made some [...]

Howdy, Neighbor.

I spent about an hour this evening preparing the area designated as the permanent home for the new Char-Griller BBQ. I was digging down about an inch to clear a space about 24″ x 36″ for some pavers I wanted to set near the wall that borders my neighbor Tom to the south. I had [...]

New Q

We came home on friday evening to a nice surprise. My parents had surreptitiously planted one of these beauties in the back yard. Well, semi-surreptitiously. They had called and mentioned they wanted to stop by while we were at work to drop something off, but declined to give any further details. For the last ten [...]

Tuffer than Leather

Well, today turned out to be a good day (besides that Apple thing) because we finally got our new furniture. After 9 weeks of an empty living room, we’re stoked it’s finally here. It’s way super comfy, too. We spent the evening sprawled out reading books (mainly because the sofa in the TV room is [...]