Category Archive: Miscellany

Aug 15 2012

Free Wood!

My dad’s been promising to ship me some of his shop scraps for a while. So when I visited him in Colorado last week, he loaded my truck with some free wood. He probably could have filled my truck several times, but since I was traveling across the country with my family, I only took a …

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Jul 30 2012

Making A Giant Spiderweb

We threw my son a Spider-Man themed birthday this past weekend. As part of the decorations, we wanted to have a few large spiderwebs hanging in the yard. We already had one giant spiderweb that we put up every Halloween, but after staring at that one for years, I figured that I could make another …

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May 24 2011

Shop Flood

Every couple of years or so my shop will flood. Sometimes it’s because it rains on frozen ground and water seeps between the top of the foundation and my bulkhead door, sometimes the freeze-thaw cycles dislodge some of the bulkhead foundation blocks, and sometimes it just decides to rain all weekend …

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