This post is a lesson in “be very careful what you wish for.” For example, if you frequently write posts in your blog about DIY projects and how you like to…

I bet with all the Red Pepper deliciousness on this page you thought I forgot I owned power tools, but fear notpeople, despite the rapidly decreasing number of usable hours…

I got in my car after work the other day, put my computer bag in the passenger seat, and then started laughing hysterically. Who on earth carries in their vehicle:…

So, I’m not sure when in life there actually was enough hours in the day for me to get done everything I wanted to get done, but I can tell…

A couple of weeks ago I started my big summer project (big being a very relative term as it definitely is not as big as, say, a badass pergola), which, in…

Intro Maybe you haven’t been around here long enough to notice, but I don’t generally take on small projects. Mostly not even regular sized projects. And definitely hardly ever maintenance…

Mother nature decided to cut us a break here in Ohio, and the last four days have been so beautiful I almost feel human again. MysteryMan and I even ate…

Let’s go back in time to September of 2007, when the office looked like this: Mmmm, stained wood floors, walls and trim painted a dirty white, and some very ugly…

It’s hard to capture paint color at night (or ever) with a camera, so I’ll give you the with- and without-flash shots both to give a better idea of what…

I’ve decided that getting the office painted and set up upstairs is the next logical project to take on in the house. I’ve also learned from my past experiences that…

… but not without a lot of swearing. Just like gravity is a law of Physics, the fact that one project will always lead to another is a law of…

But that isn’t to say the progress isn’t remarkable. Before the basement was a workshop: The “I took this picture after a glass of wine” shot of the workshop area:…

Obviously I’ve been spending hours at a time recently holed up in the utility portion of my basement getting high off the adhesive on the back of self-stick vinyl tiles. (Just…