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(I’m featuring one of my country sunset shots because it’s calming, not because it’s remotely relevant to this post, which prominently features 1.) bitching, 2.)
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
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
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
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
Never enough time On a crisp country morning To just enjoy life I’m too busy writing meaningless haiku’s. And sympathizing with spiders. We all wake
I cannot even begin to tell you how may door installations at our house have ended with one of us trying to dislodge the others
Okay, so there’s one problem with asking someone who compulsively buys powertools and starts projects about whether or not you should: Rip out carpet Tear
There are two things that have been happening simultaneously in my life, that appear to have just reached a culmination of sorts. Those two thing
Once you learn the basic principles behind installing tile you can apply them to any number of projects– floors, walls, countertops, tabletops, and about anything
I started out my holiday weekend exactly the way you would expect– hitting up Hobby Lobby, Target, and the nearest Big Box store to stock
Ah, the miracles of running water. You don’t fully appreciate it until you have to wash your dishes in a bucket with the garden hose
Tuesday night I was installing a light fixture in our reallyclosetobeingdone bathroom. Because I’m just few short inches over the 5-foot mark, anything that has
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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