Ok, so today I punched a hole in the ceiling for attic access.  I wanted to verify that the wall I wanted to take out was not a load bearing wall.  So I chopped a hole and was more pleasantly surprised than I was in the crawl space. I started the hole with a hand [...]

Spent 6 hours today working on the fence.  Ran 300′ of top-rail.  Set 3 line posts.  Some of the line posts me and Chilli set were too tall, so had to trim them off with a new reciprocating saw.  Here is a good portion of it:

There are two trouble spots, that I’m not sure how [...]

I still have some miscellaneous junk laying around the yard.  After mowing yesterday, I hooked up the mower and dragged the steel items to the curb.  Local junkers will stop by and take them to be recycled.

I also started digging up some posts that the old owner of the house had set out for some [...]

Really nothing else to say about something so small.  The toilet flushes easily again.

So, it took a few visits from Shane of Shane’s Drains, but now I am up and running with a functioning kitchen sink again.  Shane, and his employee(I didn’t catch his name), hopped down in the crawlspace and figured out that the original work had been done with a pipe that was an inch too [...]

So after talking with Darrell about where my chimney cleanout should be I decided to confirm his suspicions. So I took my first exploration into the crawlspace. First of all I stopped by Claude’s house and told him I’m going into the crawlspace and to check on me if he didn’t hear from me in [...]

I got 30 or so free bricks from someone off of craigslist.

Well, I’m planning on three big projects by the end of the year. That’s almost one a month at this point. One of the big projects is getting my woodburning stove installed. I picked it up off of Craigslist for $125 and it’s a small stove. It takes 12″ logs, which should be perfect for [...]

When I moved in I thought my taxes were outrageous but my neighbor told me that they redo taxes every five years.  Mine had just been hiked before I moved in, so I figured I’d have to wait 4 years to fight the rates.  But for some reason they sent me a new appraisal and [...]