Someone once made fun of me for breaking everything I do into phases. I do this because it makes it easier to actually finish something. For example, I was certain that building a vegetable garden in our backyard would take most of the summer. Other people, however, thought they could do the whole thing in [...]
Gardens are the big project this summer — for Nicole anyway. Mine is the deck, but that’s a different story. Nic’s goal is to have a decent-sized vegetable garden going up the hill in our backyard, and she and her dad have complex plans for how to achieve this. Last weekend we decided we’d ease [...]
Well the Christmas break was full of all the usual family visits, making sure we saw as much of our two clans as possible, in the little bit of time we had. The kids got nicely spoiled, and Nic and I made out alright ourselves. But on top of the festivities, I took some of [...]
One of the things we intend to do with our new house is to make it as self-reliant as possible. We’ve lived for a long time depending on the resources of a landlord or an organization to provide the functionality we need from a home. Although we’ll probably never be one of those people who [...]
Well I tried to find before pictures. but came up a little short. I wanted to show how bad the roof and the garage looked, but neither of these pictures really do it justice. In short, the roof was in really bad shape along the valleys, and had been partially replaced with an ugly, mis-matched [...]
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One of the many apartments we’ve lived in was a townhouse. When we arrived, the front door was a little worse for wear, so I decided I’d go out and paint it. I hadn’t got an hour into it, when a voice behind me said “What do you think you’re doing?” I turned to find [...]
