LED, CFL and incandescent bulbs
We’ve been wanting to try out LED light bulbs for quite some time now, but the cost has always been a bit too high. We had been holding out for the Switch bulbs after I read a Wired article on them about a year ago, but they took a long …
Plants!
A couple of weeks ago we built some planter boxes for the kids’ school. I didn’t take any before pictures, but the old ones were pretty close to disintegration. We used the awesome 2×10 rough cut cedar from Mr. Plywood. The large size meant we could build the boxes with …
It’s done. Nothing more to say. It’s a pretty massive improvement over the primed doors.
Well, here it is…the final piece of the yard project. Until we pulled out the dirt and brought up the gravel last …
The front railings are now done, barring some minor caulking and painting. To bring you back up to speed, the railings on …
Over the last week we’ve been painting the garage doors. We actually beat the remodeler’s equation somewhat, as it’s only been two …
This year we finally put up some permanently mounted outdoor speakers, as opposed to dragging out my old receiver and bookshelf speakers …
We recently found out that our domain hosting was compromised (by a Chinese IP address), and malware was loaded onto our site. …
You may remember the playhouse? The one that we allegedly were building for the children but was really designed for us to use …
A couple of weeks ago, Stephanie picked up some fuchsia plants at the Fred Meyer fuchsia event. She got a great 2-for-1 …
Time to check back in on the yard. Stephanie has spent several long weekends weeding, moving plants and adding new ones to …
We have been wanting to grow some herbs and veggies along the front of the garage, so I fashioned some planters out …
You may recall that last September we were kind of forced into putting the siding on the kitchen wall by our re-fi. …
Ouch. It’s been over 6 months since our last post. Not much going on around the house, but we did manage to …
I’m writing this post from the future and back-dating it, because I realized that we had never shown a picture of the …
I had a little time over the weekend to start working on the shingles for the back wall. It’s the type of …
Although this weekend was a bit too rainy to get deep into the railing and post replacement, I did take time this …
I hadn’t yet managed to take my obligatory week “off” to work on the house, so I scheduled it for last week. …
When we moved into our house, the front railings looked this: After about one year, we found that they had rotted out. …