As an update from my last post, I poured concrete for my new workshop last Thursday. My prep work of the footings, forms, rebar and remesh all passed the county inspection. I had pumped the water out of the hole for the last time, lined up the concrete finishers and ordered the concrete. I was [...]
Last August I optimistically dug footers and made plans to start my workshop in earnest, a project that has been a dream of mine for almost a decade. Building my house took almost two years, and enough time had passed that I conveniently forgot the early months of hard slogging just to get out of the [...]
Leslie and I took a short four hour drive to a neighboring state for a weekend theme park getaway in partial celebration of her birthday last week. I packed the camera, but forgot fresh batteries and the charger, so I’ll be doing the blog equivalent of singing a capella.
We did take along one of her birthday gifts, [...]
Each morning, somewhere around O’dark thirty, our dogs start to bark. They bark at the deer grazing in the field behind our house, or at a cat skulking through the woods, and more often than not, the dogs seem to bark just because they can. I know the barking is a form of communication, a challenge to anything that [...]
