Well, the time has come my story-book house on Garrison Road… It’s been almost 6 years since I took the plunge and bought my first house. A young twenty-something with…
Well, the time has come my story-book house on Garrison Road… It’s been almost 6 years since I took the plunge and bought my first house. A young twenty-something with…
Oh, and a check that will help put a roof on the new place, but other than that… Actually, what happened was I stole this pen from the title agency–…
UPDATE: Thanks to all of you awesome people who were sending us good vibes yesterday. Unfortunately the appraiser would. not. budge. Something has got to be wrong with the system…
Two weeks ago my life could be summed up like this: I had people from Florida coming to look at my house in 3 weeks and needed to move all…
Another project on the list of “things I should have finished in the last five years but didn’t” is the half-bath in the basement of the Garrison house. Sometimes when…
Maybe I should clarify that first part. “Last big project for the next two weeks at Garrison” is probably more appropriate. For the uninitiated, Garrison is the house I bought…
With the dates for the Hauling Ass Tour of 2010, and ground-breaking for the house bearing down upon us, I’ve begun repeating the coming weeks (and whats expected of us)…
Excuse me while I go put my head between my legs and breathe into a bag for the next ten minutes. Because this house saved my life on one occasion,…
Spending some quality time sitting on the basement steps waxing philosophic about life and/or paintchips has become a part of my daily routine over the last week or so. Overall…
Granted, I have burns on two of them, and twin bruises on my shins, but MysteryMan will tell you I can sustain those kinds of injuries making myself a bowl…
As you can imagine, I used the long weekend to my advantage, working 10 hour days between the Memorial House and Garrison Road. I actually spent quite a lot more…
First completed project of the year! Here’s how I did it… Materials: 48 lf. of rough sawn cedar 2×6′s (I got 3 2×6-16′ boards) 12 lf of rough sawn cedar…
As always, stories that end up with me demolishing the hell out of something start out with, “What happened was….” So. What happened was… I decided it was time to…
