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Warmer Already

December 7, 2010 4 Comments

I left the house at 8:30 with no insulators in sight, and came back at 1:00 PM to see this much warmer and more air-tight

It Gets Worse

December 4, 2010 3 Comments

If you thought that we couldn’t find one more spot to dig a hole, pile some dirt, or make a general mess out of our

Not Your Typical Mouse Story

November 22, 2010 2 Comments

The fact that we’ve been living in a garage in the middle of cornfields for the last six months means that a.) I’m getting pretty

Working Hands: A Cautionary Portrait

November 9, 2010 16 Comments

So, what I’m saying is… Palmolive probably isn’t going to be calling me to be a hand-model any time soon. Unless I’m the grizzly “before”

Old Wood

September 27, 2010 7 Comments

To some degree I know that thinking about finishing details on the inside of our house before we have things like 1.) walls, or 2.)

Don’t Measure When You Can Mark (And other things I learned on the Habitat build.)

August 25, 2010 4 Comments

Needless to say, I do a lot of “working on houses” but this is the first time it’s been sponsored by my Actual Real Job,

Full Bath Style: Beachy Neutral Wood & Glass

August 19, 2010 8 Comments

Maybe you thought that sometime I would have something to talk about other than “rooms that contain a toilet”. Like drills, right? I used to

Man-Cave Bathroom: Wall Art

August 17, 2010 16 Comments

Just what goes on the wall in a man-cave bathroom? Ah, the number of sleepless nights I’ve spent pondering that question. As you might have

My Bathroom Is Going To Be Smarter Than My Computer. Probably.

August 15, 2010 8 Comments

I’ve mentioned before that I’m well in the throes of picking the fixtures, flooring, and other materials for both of the bathrooms in the house

So Many Things Your Hands Can Do! (According to Delta Faucets and The Count)

August 11, 2010 3 Comments

I mentioned sometime last week that there was definitely not enough excitement going on around here, and that’s because I didn’t know I was going

Because there is definitely not enough going on around here.

August 6, 2010 13 Comments

What with living in a garage, building a house, chasing the donkeys around, having to light a fire every time we want to cook food,

Country Critters

August 4, 2010 No Comments

The most exciting thing I ever saw in the city was a pair of flying squirrels partying in the trees of my front yard late

On The Third Year

July 26, 2010 1 Comment

We’ve owned this house for three years now, which is to say a Wheat Year… A Corn Year… And a Bean Year… I could spend

Sharpening our no.2’s

July 19, 2010 5 Comments

We’re entering another one of those “sit back an wait for materials and/or while professionals do the work on our house” phases of construction. With

Sparkler Tricks 2010

July 4, 2010 4 Comments

My good friend E and I started a Fourth of July tradition last year: Opening the shutter on the Nikon and playing with sparklers. As

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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