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Starting to look…actually…like I’m accomplishing something!

Sooo…window trimmed in…siding up…you’ll notice the bottom glass is clean…SO clean in fact, that air hose and extension cord pass right through it! (a situation I’ll possibly correct next weekend).
That’s me out there working…You’ll notice sash weight pockets…

Nailguns rock…

Looking pretty good…

Doorframe around the corner is in too…

I WILL have the french doors mounted next weekend…
CUAgain,
Daniel [...]

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Operation Coverup continues…

The rest of the story here.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Projects

Operation Coverup…

Six boxes arrived scattered amongst other packages in a large truck…about eighteen kilos each, tightly wrapped in plastic to keep the scent contained. We quickly transferred them into the trunk of Crunchbird (Da Altima)…. rest of the story here

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Projects

Utility room wall progress…

Y’all may recall the utility room wall…badly constructed and falling out of this otherwise VERY solid house…that we had to rebuild. We are relocating the window and door whilst we are at it. Linky-thing
Purists will be overjoyed that we are using the original window…which is circa 1900 or so but NOT original to this house…it [...]

Mood

The Plant Did it…

One of the fun things about the first year or so of ownership of something like the The Old Vic is all the surprise plants that show up.
At least one of them is an alien.
See this thing?

There was no sign of it when we bought the house…well, maybe a little sign…a small dead space on [...]

Projects

Did I forget the windows?

A bit of a LONG overdue update on the stairway windows project.
The Dormer sporting new colors!

The window project slowed down a bit…other priorities intruded…but here is update at this link.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Pets

Geronimo…

We were apparently assigned two…
Well, in the end, we only got one.
See, two, is too many. Two, is nearly as many cats as I’ve owned in my lifetime (3)…and I still have one of those.
Okay, well, 4 cats if we count the one that came with the house…
My cats tend to last a while.
Lesseeeee….”Fruitloop”…the [...]

Tools

Casualty

Our first casualty on this project…my Skil Saw. An actual Skil brand Skil saw even.
Dead. Spectacularly dead in point of fact.
And at the tender age of only…(divides by pi, carries the two)…wait, what? Really?
I’ve had that Skil saw 20 years! Just how did that happen? Used to be I just plain wasn’t busy if I [...]

Electrical

My very favorite splice…part deux.

Y’all might recall my very favorite splice (story at this link).
Here’s a picture of the offending electrical monster:

Well, I’d like to introduce you to my second favorite splice…or perhaps it is actually My Very Favorite Splice, Part Deux, The Sequel…This Time It’s Personal, The Revenge…or something like that. Yeah, okay, so I’m carried away with [...]

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