At least, not in home-building. With any project of any size, as far as messes are concerned, things will always get worse before they get better. Half the time I…

I haven’t had a ton of success with my previous gardening attempts, despite the fact that I come from a long line of women who know how to work the…

I know that it’s shocking– the fact that I might start several hundred projects around the house without actually finishing any of them– but this weekend, instead of being focused…

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. Not a break, although one…

Well, two good things happened today which means I’m in a much better frame of mind than I was yesterday. 1.) I had a blast learning the tricks of the…

Add “getting up to install hardware on my new solid wood doors” to the list of things I will willingly get up before 7AM to accomplish. That list also includes…

Miniature donkeys, we are ready for you. I can’t even explain in words the number of hours we spent contemplating this fence. What type of posts to use, how far…

The fact that temps were in the sixties and– gasp! — seventies this weekend  (In Michigan. In November.) almost made up for the fact that with daylight savings time, it’s…

In the Southern border of Michigan we’re all balancing precariously on the edge of Fall, waiting to plunge headfirst into the deep freeze of yet another Midwestern Winter. Which means…

Since we decided to hold off on breaking ground on the actual house, we’ve put all of our energy into turning the station into a livable space. In the last…

See this picnic table? I love eating at this thing almost as much as I loved building it. Detached benches, no visible screws on the top, and a whole lot…

I took Friday off from my regular job because 1.) I have 11,000–or some other ridiculous number of vacation days– that it is unlikely I will use… and even more unlikely that…

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…