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The last couple of afternoons I have spent outside cleaning up sticker bushes, brush, trimming or cutting out small trees, pulling up ivy, and picking up fallen limbs and trash. I am now working on my second burn pile as … Continue reading
This Saturday, Jim and Sallie came down to help. It also decided to pour buckets of rain on us today. Sallie and Jim got all the stuff left over in the yard carted away to the appropriate recycle/trash piles. Now … Continue reading
Today my Mom and I cleaned up the house. Lee and I are supposed to be moving in tomorrow and Thursday and the house was a complete disaster. So we vacuumed, mopped, and moved boards around in the upper two … Continue reading
Our third burn pile of the season. WooHoo! Okay I guess it seems rather pitiful when you look at how much yard debris that we still have to burn. I wonder how many fires we will have before the burn … Continue reading
As I’ve said before, the blessing and the curse of gutting a building is that you find all the flaws. Ever since I gutted the walls in the back bedroom I’ve felt suspicious about the closet. The closets upstairs were … Continue reading
Sunday we had the last yard sale. We got rid of a bit of stuff and have already taken a truck load of left overs to Goodwill. That is our second truck load of stuff in two weeks and I … Continue reading
I’m certainly no Bob Villa. I’ll even admit to sitting at a desk in my day job. But if you do a bit of reading on home construction topics, you realize that there is a central theme to it called … Continue reading
Today was one busy day. It started with us getting around early and doing a million errands in town. We went to a ton of tile shops. I picked out a bunch that I liked but Lee wasn’t quite sold. … Continue reading
Wednesday and Thursday my Mom and Uncle Forest came up to help me in the afternoon. Somehow I forgot to take my camera and when I remembered it the next day the battery went dead. Bum timing. Anyways, the cleaning … Continue reading