The Storybook House – Page 3

A Little Oops

September 17, 2006 2 Comments

I’ve only been awake for about 45 minutes today, and so far I’m not sure which part of my day has been the most fabulous:

Every day is an Adventure

September 16, 2006 2 Comments

Today I was surrounded by kick ass women… but before I get to that, let me tell you about the trailer.The big plan for today

Crooked Bench

September 11, 2006 3 Comments

That’s the story for the weekend.Friday night I got a bug up my butt about getting something done, so I decided to start on the

The Great Wall of..

August 7, 2006 2 Comments

…well, it ain’t China, but it’s something.First, let me just say, every muscle in my body is incredibly pissed off at me right now. (I

No one likes to see a girl shovel alone…

August 4, 2006 1 Comment

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)

Digger of Trenches.

August 1, 2006 2 Comments

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

Rapidly Approaching Completion (Or Not.)

July 11, 2006 1 Comment

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

Not as Badass as I would like…

July 3, 2006 2 Comments

…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

Hey, it actually looks like a….

June 27, 2006 7 Comments

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

Stuck Between a Root and a Hard Pipe.

June 19, 2006 2 Comments

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

In the world of fence installation, my mother and I are Rockstars.

June 12, 2006 14 Comments

(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

The Mysteriously Regenerating Concrete Wall

June 9, 2006 1 Comment

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

Wheelbarrow, Sledgehammer, & High Heels.

May 4, 2006 1 Comment

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

The Pergola Countdown Begins

April 11, 2006 2 Comments

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

Utility Room Zen & Kung Fu Nailing

January 16, 2006 1 Comment

The basement has pretty much served as a catchall for everything that has gone down in the last year… moving in, ripping the Adorable Red

I'm not interested in a mediocre life. I'm here to kick ass or die.

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THE STORYTELLER

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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