Funny you should ask. It seems I’ve been dis-assembling and re-assembling, building and re-building, and just fixing stuff since I was a kid. When I was 11 years old, I took several 4-H classes on electricity. Years later, I would wire-up my own workshop in the basement of my parents home. In junior college, I…
The Great Wall of 2026
Part 2 And so it begins The first item on my list for the wall was to solve the water problem. Over time, the neighbors gravel parking area had gone out of grade. Instead of sending the water away from my property it was now making a bee line towards it. Slowly, that constant water…
The Great Wall of 2026
Yet another retaining wall project Part 1 When we moved to the new house we knew this particular retaining wall would need to be repaired-or replaced. It was leaning out quite a bit due to the runoff from my next door neighbor’s gravel parking area. The constant runoff had caused the dirt to slowly slide…
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One Project That Didn’t Go Off the Rail(ing)s
I had a project request from some very special clients. They needed hand rails for a 3-step drop into their family room. I’ve built and installed hand rails before; both new or replacements. This project, however, had some very important details. There were going to be two handrails, one on either side. This meant that…
How a touch-up project turned personal
The saga of the repair of my front door Have you ever started a quick project or task and slowly watch it expand into a huge nightmare? I have. Usually for me, it’s plumbing. This time though, it was just a quick paint touch-up. Or so I thought. First, some backstory. It started about three…
I hate it when that happens
Well, I was working in my garage, kind of cleaning up. That means I was mostly moving piles of stuff from location to another. Turns out that the rule is true: the amount of junk will expand to fill any given space. I’m moving stuff around our boats and one of the hand bilge pumps…