RAIN BARRELS AND PLANTERS
Bought two 50 gallon 'castilla' rain barrels from Home Depot a few months ago. After the $150 rebate they cost just $7.50 each. Finally...
VIRTUAL REALITY PRESENTATION
Spent a week putting this Powerpoint document together in preparation for our trip to Europe on the Viking Sky Shakedown Cruise. We...
BACKYARD OVERHAUL - PART 6
Drainage installation. I wasn't planning on it originally, but this year's unusually heavy rains revealed a serious drainage issue with...
SUNROOM PROJECT PART 1: CONCRETE
Building can't begin without correcting some serious issues with the foundation. The original owner built the perpendicular portion of...
PATIO COVER PROJECT
Decided to hire this one out to our contractor, Mike, just to get it done before heading to Europe for two weeks. The foundation posts...
SERVICE DAY
Spent the day working gratis on the neighbor's yard to help mitigate an escalating dispute between two adjacent property owners up-slope...
SUNROOM DESIGN
Finally got a good first pass completed on this. Lots of design challenges and workarounds to contend with. Main glass sections are 3...
BACKYARD OVERHAUL - PART 5
Finishing out the planting boxes. Laid some plastic to cover the brick foundations: Two and a half hours and a gallon of stain later:...
BACKYARD OVERHAUL - PART 4
On to planting to finish up all the planting beds! For the oval section I wanted to re-purpose some old pieces of a concrete fountain the...
BACKYARD OVERHAUL - PART 3
On to building the planter boxes! Got some help from Johnny assembling the big planters. First the support structures were put together...
