Just a short six years later, wrapping up work on the front porch
There are these particular, rare moments when the sheer length of time we’ve been living in and working on this house comes …
Expanding the back deck (part two)
After getting started Friday on expanding the deck by installing the crossbeam and pre-cutting most of the joists, I started early Saturday morning …
This guy is better at this than you or I will ever be at anything
This is some serious skill. I had a delivery this morning from Galliher & Huguely for a small load of lumber, and …
Planting the Jay Tree
The blog has been quiet as work has slowed down, but there’s one small finished project I haven’t chronicled yet, mostly because …
Finishing up the backyard retaining wall
After one week, the backyard retaining wall is done. Even as I wrote that just now, I was so dubious that it …
Turning an overgrown nightmare of a backyard into something better
The amount of work that is needed in the backyard to be able to start our herb and vegetable garden is just …
The transformation of our front yard through the last year and a half
When we bought this house, the front yard hadn’t exactly been cared for in a long time. A chain-link fence was installed some …
Everything is growing around here
Though you probably can’t detect the growing in the belly here, because these photos were only taken about 3 weeks apart. I …
Like a [concrete] boss
I’ve got the best brother-in-law, hands down. Jeremy’s been living with us since New Year’s or so — as well as the …
115 Bulbs!
While Steve works away madly on the inside of the house, I have kept busy outside. This is partially because there’s work …