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We've slowed down so much...you may have thought we stopped.
Things have been slow around here in terms of house work. It may be directly proportional to how busy Atticus is: if we could just absorb his energy we might be able to get work done during his nap instead of needing naps ourselves! So what have we accomplished? Read More...
Polishing countertops
So I haven't done much around the house lately. I'm not even sure what my last "real" project was. Today I cleared off the concrete countertops and put a new layer of wax on them and polished them. Does that count for home improvement? If I had a free Read More...
Graphing Mortgage Calculator
I'm still unemployed and have a bunch of free time, so last week I worked on a project I've had on the back burner for a while. Nick's Graphing Mortgage Calculator There are a zillion mortgage calculators on the web, some of which are similar to this Read More...
unemployed - week 1
Being unemployed hasn't helped my stress level much, but it's starting to have an effect on the various projects around here: I've got three four window sashes glued up. nine eight more to go. I glued up two remaining cabinet doors for the kitchen Also Read More...
Unemployed
Well, it wasn't a great day. My company notified me this morning, along with the engineering team I ran, that they decided to lay us off effective immediately and move the positions overseas. There have been a number of layoffs in the past few months Read More...
U.P.S. Destroyed My Son's Workbench - Part II
A quick update about this topic . The morning after my previous post on the subject, a man from U.P.S Store HQ contacted me. He had read my post (is he a Houseblogger? Is it his job to mine the internet for words like "U.P.S." and "destroyed"?) and said Read More...
U.P.S. Destroyed My Son's Workbench
01/18/2008 Update: I have an update to this post, which I've placed at the end. 01/23/2008 Update: I've made a second post about this, here . Once upon a time, when I was 3 or 4, my dad made me a workbench. People are always asking me how I learned to Read More...
What's next?
Nick's got all the pieces cut for the rest of the first floor windows and has done a dry fit. This week he will order the glass and after that comes, he will begin assembling them. I've been thinking about the backsplash in the kitchen and how high I Read More...
Why don't we just build a window? Part Six...
Or... "You can never own too many clamps." Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left. There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them through the planer, Read More...
Built ins
After reading the featrued story on House Blogs by Jeanne "Built-In... Form and Function" , I began thinking about what built-ins we have done and which are my favorite. (Or favorite so far, as we've got a lot of house left that we haven't re-furbished.) Read More...
We're still here...
Fall is usually busy. Being a teacher includes all the back-to-school stuff, extra planning, progress reports went home last week and I have teacher-parent conferences this week. The stomach flu hit us a couple of weeks ago and things are just now starting Read More...
Punch list
So, we've got a bunch of little things to do, but it seems to take forever to get some done. Nick's done a great job with the gutters, and made some good progress on the kitchen cabinets. I'm feeling like I need to get out my large tablet of paper and Read More...
Up on the roof...
Nick dug out the ladder and tackled the garden we had growing in the gutters and the valleys on our roof. After he cleared a ton of moss, branches and small plants from the south side of the roof I brought out his climbing harness and rope so he could Read More...
Slate
A few weeks ago I stopped by Second Use , one of our favorite salvage yards in Seattle. They had a lot of slate from two old Seattle High Schools that are being renovated. Being a teacher, I immediately wanted to pick out the biggest and nicest piece Read More...
Interesting data
Things are crazy. I'm back at work and the beginning of the school year is always hectic, Nick's been working on his flying, and we've been playing with Atticus. I was on the CDC website and noticed an interesting fact: Nail Gun Injuries in Workers Treated Read More...
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