The Old Vic got broadband internet yesterday. Finally got all the hubs/etc straightened out today (the massive structure of this place literally EATS wireless signals!). One more step forward. Paint is on the agenda this afternoon and tomorrow. $200 bucks worth picked up this morning. That’s one…I say…ONE room. Heh…good thing it was on sale! [...]

In last week’s exciting episode, I left the Left-Handed Fargle-Snorker in suspense…or rather, suspended, waiting on brake parts. Those I got. Sort of a sign of the times that the brake fluid, brake cleaner, wheel-bearing grease, and hand-cleaner needed for this job cost as much as the parts…but there ya go. Nothing complex…other than there [...]

I had not intended on doing any roof work on this house myself. I’ve done roofs. I don’t like it. Under the best conditions…and even if you are in the best shape, it is hard, brutal, knee and back bruising work. When we looked at the house, I could easily see the roof needed work, [...]

Continued from last week…This Sunday we finished the bottom section…that’s the hardest one as there was quite a bit of repair to do underneath the siding…and because of the height and pattern nearly every shingle in that section has some sort of cut to it. My good friend Larry helped immensly as my “saw man”…we [...]

I ordered the shakes for our 1880′s Gothic Debatable tower today. I’m replacing all the cedar on it. Got some trim work around the edge of the roof to do as well. Oh, and a couple pieces of tin to fabricate. 12 cartons…96 shingles/carton. 3 different patterns (fancy-ing this up just a bit). I’m pretty [...]

Well, with forcast temperatures in the teens, we decided we wouldn’t be getting much work done this weekend. Painting? Uh, no. Not only do I not want to be outside, but the paint would be somewhat solidified. We may have lost some paint anyway…since some of it was stored in parts of the house that [...]

Those of you following along probably realize by now that I need to purchase about 2.3 million dollars worth of stuff from Home Depot for the Old Vic project… Heh…and THAT’S just for the stuff I need to finish this year! You also may recall I’m an author. Want to help me help support the [...]

Yet more electrical work. Not much to show…as in “interesting pictures”. Basically I’ve been crawling through attics trailing yellow wire all behind me like some sort of giant mutant spider. *shudder* On second thought…stike that mental image…I do NOT want to know what orifice that three-stranded copper, PVC sheathed “web” comes out of. There’s more [...]