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Upgraded Ceiling Tiles
This is what the bedroom ceiling looked like before the upgrade. This is a basement bedroom. Nothing fancy, boring, typical office building cubicle style esthetics. Initially when we bought the house the wall where the picture hangs was not there … Continue reading
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Raised Beds and Garden Greenhouses
Our garden has undergone many shapes, types and sizes. We have done the tilled in the ground type. We used railroad ties and trucked in good dirt and tried that. We have fenced it in with the chickens (huge mistake). … Continue reading
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Greenhouses
My mom used to say, “The old people were always happy till the Sears catalog arrived.” For anyone who never received the Sears catalog it was like YouTube and Amazon had a baby, and it was made from paper. When … Continue reading
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Basement Bedroom Ceiling Tile Redo
This is how it started. This small fairly inexpensive little part. It seemed so innocent, so well intentioned, so needed, right before it all went horribly, horribly wrong in a spectacular manner.
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Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall
When it’s too little you have to step up your watering game. We have been adding automatic watering solutions into our gardens and it’s been wonderful. A problem that we have is getting water to areas that have no access … Continue reading
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Potato Shaker / Soil Sifter
Last year I made a sifter for sifting compost. It’s just some 2×4’s screwed together with a piece of 1/2″ hardware cloth stapled to one side. The rectangle is 35 x 27, with the two shorter sides of the rectangle … Continue reading
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Lost Dog, again.
Sam met Taz at work and it was love at first site. Since work romances can get awkward Sam decided to adopt Taz. Taz was so named because of the collar he was wearing when he was found wandering the … Continue reading
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Fertigation
Ever since installing drip irrigation to our gardens, it has greatly reduced the amount of time spent each day watering. One of the things I wanted to add from the start was a fertigation system. We currently have 5 zones … Continue reading
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The Littles are Sleeping!
They are all asleep, and that lasted about 10 minutes. They came home on May 7th for comparison here is how they fit in that box back then. They now take up the entire box and stand about as tall … Continue reading
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I Accidentally Bought Another Chainsaw
Ooops! I saw a Jonsered CS 2240 on Ebay. Ever since my 24 year old CS 2050 hasn’t been running well, I’ve wanted another mid size chainsaw. This 2240 showed up on one of my searches. There were no bids, … Continue reading
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