Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Aug 4th, 2006
Yesterday the people in my life rocked.
Holy Crapola! Where did all the material go?
Well, the Shovel Fairy (previously the Master of The Hatchet) stopped by when I was at work and moved about 80% of the sand pile to the back by the garage (that’s the darker material) all by herself in 98-degree weather.
I went [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Aug 1st, 2006
That’s me. It was 97-degrees and had to be 100% humidity, but dammed if I wasn’t going to get my trench dug. Well, okay, first things first.
Moms and I managed– barely– to get up the last big piece of lattice.
All that’s left for this bad boy is the archway. Yes!
Then I got on to the [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jul 11th, 2006
Get this. The pergola is rapidly approaching completion. (The tile in the kitchen, however, is not. But that’s another story for another day.)
So…Saturday was “Get The Roof On the Pergola” Day, which meant hauling 8 2×6’s up and down the ladder all day, and cutting 16 notches… which doesn’t seem like it should day six [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jul 3rd, 2006
…but even I am human.
WEEKEND:
On one hand, I do love having a healthy active social life… on the other hand, this generally takes me away from my projects and power tools. So this weekend wasn’t as productive as the last few have been, but we did manage to get a little work done on the [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jun 27th, 2006
Pergola!
Uh, almost.
Other than the fact that just about every step of this project takes twice as long as I expect it to, we got through last weekend without any major issues. That means: More pics, less talk.
The one woman staining crew:
The one woman post trimming crew:
If you’re wondering, that’s the “I really don’t want to [...]
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