Pools, hot tubs, and other watery updates
Pool chemistry lessons after the circulation pooped out, plus other watery issues the previous owners left us.
October 2015
Tractors of Purgatory
The big tractors that shaped this hill, and the arrival of Dino, a 1983 Ferrari 95 articulating diesel tractor.
Outside my windows, there is life
Wildlife outside my office windows: a squirrel with nuts, quail and a somewhat shaky ground squirrel.
Final Kennel Details
The Smith boys finish up the old dog kennel, and the dumpster is picked up.
Debris Removal Week
Debris removal week: filling a dumpster with some of the decades of junk the previous owners left behind.
A little history lesson
I tracked down the doctor who built our house in 1966, and he came to visit. A really, really long post about the house’s history.
Belated Birthday Gift or Atonement?
Agent Smith brought home a cordless Milwaukee drill from Home Despot, one that lives in the house so I don’t have to trudge out to the garage for the greasy one.
Filing Cabinet Rehab
My old filing cabinet gets a facelift, with a new reddish look to go with my office floors.
Looking back…
Looking back at the original June project list and striking off what’s done.
The Tale of the Planter Boxes
How the planter boxes from our SF porch made it to Purgatory after all, and how the geraniums and succulents are settling in.
Random Pics that Never Got Posted
Pics that never made it into posts: the well tank replacement, the south pasture and old rodeo ring, and a neighbor whose tenants toss garbage over the fence.
The end of the little stable
Agent Smith and his dad take down the derelict little stable on the south side, all the way to the quasi-foundation in one day.
A peek inside
A peek inside our garage, and the discovery that its frame was originally a quarter of a school building.
A barn full of stuff.
Exploring the six-stall pole barn: barn swallows, a screech owl, tack rooms full of random stuff and piles of bird poop over a foot high.
The size of things
Recovering from the plague, plus pictures that show just how big the great room is, and a peek at the wine closet.
Back Again
The coyote visited again this morning.
Dog House Down
The structurally unsound old dog shelter comes down, a great opportunity to put Dino, the new tractor, to work.