Handy(wo)man challenge, 2008

This is the “before” and “after”. The before is the fence boards on the far left… I had to tear ‘em apart and then remove the nails and well, I ended up with a pile of old, cracked wood. I didn’t want to burn the wood or toss it so I thought maybe we could [...]

Grass is a growin’!

Progress on the homefront as we got some news to update!

Our grass is growing on the yard area we worked on about 10 days ago or so! Rock on! I think it was a bit too cool for the grass to grow as we went through a bit of a cool spell so the last [...]

Landscaping an ugly corner

Ya know, we’re suckers for punishment. My dad brought up a bunch of soil last year and we ended up spreading it over this area which had really poor grass coverage and was just an unused portion of our yard which you can see from the road and was butt-ugly.
Well, we bought some stones for [...]

Finished fences make good neighbours

We have ourselves some very interesting neighbours. My luck is they’d find this blog and discover what I write about them so I’ll use just nice, friendly words. Pretty much they like to keep up with the Jones (and oddly enough, our last name is NOT the Jone’s but you would think it was)…  we [...]

Holy hell & the shelf

I think I possibly (semi) survived the most irritating experience in my life and that was putting up shelves that we bought the other day.  It didn’t turn out as nice as I had hoped but the sixty-three thousand holes in my damn hole don’t help things either. I know how to hang a shelf, [...]