Well, That’s Different
After a number of years with just exposed OSB subfloor (and a couple of rugs) as the flooring in my kitchen… It now has (part of) a floor. Do not be fooled by that picture. It is still mostly this… I have
Every day is an Adventure
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 was to hitch a trailer up to my Xterra and go pick up a half a dozen
Crooked Bench
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 bench that will cover the concrete ledge/foundation so that Moms and I could get in some serious
The Great Wall of..
…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 had a dream I was back in my days as a dancer, so I must have been having
No one likes to see a girl shovel alone…
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
Digger of Trenches.
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
Rapidly Approaching Completion (Or Not.)
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
Not as Badass as I would like…
…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
Hey, it actually looks like a….
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
Stuck Between a Root and a Hard Pipe.
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
In the world of fence installation, my mother and I are Rockstars.
(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
The Mysteriously Regenerating Concrete Wall
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
Wheelbarrow, Sledgehammer, & High Heels.
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
It’s in the Genes.
My Grandma stopped into work today. I’ll tell you– without false modestly– that I come from some Grade A stock. Mamie is a short walk past three quarters of a century, and she came to the plant here to pick up some
The Pergola Countdown Begins
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
Badass Cat
I don’t care what you say, whether or not you’re a dog lover, or if you think I’m well on my way to becoming a crazy power-tool collecting cat lady. My cats are badass…Neo, for example, is the smartest feline I
Every day is an Adventure
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 was to hitch a trailer up to my Xterra and go pick up a half a dozen
Crooked Bench
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 bench that will cover the concrete ledge/foundation so that Moms and I could get in some serious
The Great Wall of..
…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 had a dream I was back in my days as a dancer, so I must have been having
No one likes to see a girl shovel alone…
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
Digger of Trenches.
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
Rapidly Approaching Completion (Or Not.)
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
Not as Badass as I would like…
…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
Hey, it actually looks like a….
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
Stuck Between a Root and a Hard Pipe.
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
In the world of fence installation, my mother and I are Rockstars.
(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
The Mysteriously Regenerating Concrete Wall
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
Wheelbarrow, Sledgehammer, & High Heels.
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
It’s in the Genes.
My Grandma stopped into work today. I’ll tell you– without false modestly– that I come from some Grade A stock. Mamie is a short walk past three quarters of a century, and she came to the plant here to pick up some
The Pergola Countdown Begins
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
Badass Cat
I don’t care what you say, whether or not you’re a dog lover, or if you think I’m well on my way to becoming a crazy power-tool collecting cat lady. My cats are badass…Neo, for example, is the smartest feline I
