Posted in Entryway, House Projects on Jun 13th, 2008
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 case you missed that post, is to rehab the entryway of my darling 80 year old house.
Step one in this process was to remove the crumbled-to-shit iron [...]
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Posted in Garden, Photography on Jun 7th, 2008
June has grabbed my little part of Ohio in her sweaty fists and dropkicked us right into the middle of summer. Thus ends the three days of moderate temperatures that constitue “Spring” in the City of Trees.
Along with the potential for endless days of frizzy hair (seriously, find me the buzzer) the heat, humidity and [...]
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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 projects.
I like fixing and/or building things. Changing oil, cleaning filters, and making the bed are not high up on my priority list. This makes me a poor [...]
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Posted in Garage, House Projects on Apr 8th, 2008
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 outside on the patio last night, and I didn’t have to wear seventeen layers and earmuffs to be comfortable.
It was so beautiful out in fact, that [...]
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Posted in House Projects, Office on Feb 12th, 2008
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 and uneven shelves on the walls.
By October the floors at least had had a makeover:
Then it was just a couple of weeks ago that the walls [...]
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