Decisions, Decisions: Concrete Color Edition
There are just two things standing in the way of getting the siding on our house now. One of them is a complete lack of
There are just two things standing in the way of getting the siding on our house now. One of them is a complete lack of
Alternatively titled: Wherein a large portion of my house was threatens to fall down and now I need a drink. How’s your Friday going? In
I’m not sure how many of you remember back in the day—the pre-blogging, pre computer day—when if you got a little over-eager with punching the
There’s nothing like having a few gaping holes in the perfectly good exterior walls of your house during rainy season to make you fully appreciate
This weekend I packed up my tools and took my big yellow SUV up to Ann Arbor, MI– Home of the Wolverines. There was a
By far mice are a central theme in the most interesting things we have to say about living in a garage in the middle of
There are things that come with building a house that you expect: lumber, mud, tears, sore muscles, paint swatches, gray hairs, heavy equipment, and depressingly
No, that’s not a bad homonym (somewhere, my fifth-grade English teacher sheds a tear of pride) after this weekend I really do want a brake.
I’d like to be writing a really witty and/or eloquent opening sentence to this monthly wrap-up, but I’m having a hard time typing through the
I took two days off from my Actual Real Job to work on the window trim and siding on the house, which actually ended up
For the last week I’ve been preparing to side the house the way a general prepares for battle. I took two days off work –one
I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.
Back in 2004 I started writing about my adventures in fixing up houses on the internet. A lot of things have changed since then, with me, with my houses, and with the internet. These days I am basically a cranky old man trapped in a slightly less old woman’s body. The internet has changed and I am staunchly refusing to change with it. You won’t find any algorithms here, or feeds, or ads, or social media. Just good old-fashioned stories about a woman drinking beer and building shit, and living an unexpected life.
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