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So, about a year ago, Billy started talking about “Veggie House”. Apparently after you figure out how to run your car on vegetable oil, the next step is to figure out how to run your house on it. Good times. For the past 2 months Billy has been wandering around the house frowning and swearing […]

Katie and I replaced 4 windows and put up new cedar siding on one of the gable ends of our house.  It looks so much nicer than the old aluminum siding.

Berk and Goose finally got one ..

From this …

to this …

7 Cords.  I hope we make ti through the winter.

With winter just around the corner it is time to insulate the upstairs of our house.  With our heating cost being obscenely expensive the past couple of years, it is finally time to do something about it.  When we started up stairs there were 3 bedrooms and no heat of bathrooms.  Our plan is […]

Katie and I just bought 8 cord of firewood … I have a bit of cutting and splitting

This weekend was deemed “95% weekend”. That means that Billy and I never finish anything we start 100%, so this weekend we decided to pull out the final 5%. The list included:  finishing paint in the kitchen, hanging trim, and other such nonsense. Somehow, we got sidetracked and killed the bathroom, not part of 5%… […]

So Katie came home with some retarded “shelf in a box” from Target last week.  She paid $100 bucks for the particle board, made in china piece of crap.  After putting together a bunch of these things in my lifetime and then trying move them, I vowed NEVER AGAIN would we buy anything like this […]

We tore out the window in our office, and replaced it with a double door out to the new deck. During the door install I managed to mangled a bunch of the aluminum siding. Katie and I decided that we both don’t really like the aluminum siding anyways, so we decided that we […]