Not that there’s ever a shortage on the “to do list” around here, but we added one more to the list over the weekend. The story goes that the DW’s grandfather built this desk for his tool shed at one point out of what he had handy. The DW remembers seeing it there. The pine […]

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I’ve already told you about the trees we planted. Turns out one drawback of planting dormant bare root saplings is that you have to have complete faith in the nursery that you’re getting what they say you’re getting. In our case, we ordered five Red Oak trees and received five 3 to 4 foot sticks […]

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I hinted last week that one of the items on the to-do-list pushed itself to the top of the list. It started while I was at work on Friday afternoon and got a call from the DW. She thought she blew the fuse to the microwave and wanted to know where to find the new […]

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Back in January, the DW and I set a goal of six projects we wanted to finish this year. Number six on the list was to remove the old Basswood trees in front of the house and replace them with new trees. We finished half the project in May when we cut down the old […]

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One of the goals for this year was to get rid of the three old trees in front of the house. Late last summer a storm took half of one the trees and we realized it was in much worse shape than we originally thought – it was hollow from top to bottom. We wanted […]

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I realized I forgot to explain a few things in Friday’s post. We were working on the kitchen for a while, so I got a little lost on what I’d explained before and in the process skipped over a few few things. The Cabinets: With the exception of the pantry and open-faced cabinet that I […]

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You may have forgotten – I know I did – but we still had a few things to wrap up in the kitchen before we could call that project finished. With the holidays past and the cold weather limiting any time outside, I was finally able to focus on adding the last few details – […]

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Sissy has been asking me to loft her bed for as long as I can remember. My response has always been the same – I’d loft her bed if she was willing to move from a full sized bed to a twin. The idea of losing all that extra sleeping room was normally enough to […]

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I think I’ve mentioned before that the DW and I keep a list of improvements/additions we’d like to make to the house and around the acreage. Some of them are fairly straight forward and are fairly major projects. There are days where it seems the list is getting endlessly longer instead of shorter, but we’re […]

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The DW and I were walking through Lowes one day when we noticed a good price on some basic white exterior paint. The exterior of the house is a cement-board-type siding that was probably installed in the 40’s and had never been painted. It needed it. So we threw 10 gallons of paint in the […]

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