Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jun 19th, 2006
This weekend was a study in hole-digging. I dug six holes (about a foot in diameter by 3-1/2 feet deep), filled in three holes, and set four massive posts. The actual “doing” of those three things took about 20 hours. That should be an indication of how well the last two days went.Day 1:
I am [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jun 12th, 2006
(This is where it starts to get fun,)
I currently am sitting at my desk with: three badly scraped knuckles, a strange egg-shaped bruise on my sternum, a fun little bump on the back of my head, a medley of scrapes in places I don’t care to think about, and a pervasive soreness in every muscle, [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Jun 9th, 2006
This is the message I left for my buddy Felix*, (Yes, the same Felix who exactly four months from this day decided to- gasp!- ask me out on a date, and later became my ever-handy MysteryMan… ) who also happens to be in charge of the boys that were supposed to be demolishing my concrete [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on May 4th, 2006
The wheelbarrow saga…You have to understand, I didn’t even have a good starting place when it came to tearing down that concrete pad, but I did know the first thing I was going to need was a wheelbarrow.
Unfortunately, assembling a wheelbarrow is not as easy as one might think, considering it’s not much more that [...]
Posted in Badass Pergola, House Projects on Apr 11th, 2006
It’s the nicest day of the year so far & I’m yearning for my back porch and pergola to be finished… or even started. I told Papa (my grandpa, as opposed to PapaRick –or Ricardo– my father) I was getting ready to tear out the 16″ high concrete slab that is currently the sum total [...]
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