Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces
One of the annoying things about living halfway up a mountain is that we lose power more often than if we lived in a normal…
Author: stega
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty/punny title came to mind for this post.) In early 2019 I started scouring the interwebs for some tables for the foyer. A…
Mirror Mirror
As mentioned in the last post, the 3D printer helped with a recent crafty project I created for the foyer/great room. I spent a few…
When in doubt, just print it
It’s been two years since we bought our first 3D printer–a Prusa MK3, based upon a friend’s recommendation–and we learned very early on that one…
Dino Drawers
A tiny, odd project involved some cute dinosaur fabric I found on sale a while back. In just a few short minutes with my interlocker…
Gutter Addendum
When we moved in, the west side of the great room had a gutter above the windows to divert rainwater away from the door and…
Exterior Tidying
There were no winter rains in December 2018, so we asked our favorite painter to get some much-needed exterior painting done. As mentioned numerous times…
Touching up some leaves
Shortly after the floors were done and the boys moved back into their place, I retouched the trees I painted on the walls a couple…
Eating things one should not: Power Cords
Continuing the theme of the preceding post, living with two large parrots means sometimes things get eaten. Shoes are a frequent target. I have a…
Eating things one should not: Cardboard
Regular readers of this little blog know that we have two large parrots sharing our world. While Tenar and Thlayli (Thy for short) are basically…
Insulating Ourselves
When we finished the furnace project and the plumbing project that followed, we knew we wanted to redo the insulation under the house; most of…
Can’t see the trees for the trees
Where we live in California, we have three seasons: winter, spring, and fire. If you pay any attention to current events you’ll know that fire…
The Grading Is In
With all the work we’ve done in the last few years, the front section of the “RV pad” had taken a bit of a beating.…
Flooring all done. Time for before and after.
First the damaged area by the sliding glass door upstairs in the great room: Then the damaged area at the foyer and great room. I…
Sanding is a Sandy Business
Once the repairs in the teak were finished, it was time to get down to the really messy part of the floor project–sanding and refinishing…
Click-Lock
While the teak repairs were happening, another guy who specializes in repairing and installing the type of flooring we have in the blue room and…
Timelapse Beta
March-April 2020.
Small Stegas
I (stega) have been called stega for a long, long time. There’s a very long story regarding the early days of videoconferencing and male genitalia…
Teaky Teak
Before the teak that runs through most of the house could be refinished, a lot–and I mean a lot–of repairs had to be made. There…
Sunday Panorama
The pool solar. Taken in 2016.
My Grandmother’s Cedar Chest
Since I’m one of only two grandchildren on my father’s side of the family, I ended up with a lot of stuff when it came…
We interrupt your service…
When we moved here, we continued to use the same pest control service the previous owners had used since 1989. We figured why mess with…
Time Lapse Footage: North Garden
I’ve been tinkering with some time-lapse stuff again. Here’s one of the garden outside my office.
Craigslist, Chicago, and Lumber Liquidators
It’s been a while since regular posts have gone up, and even though we’re under a shelter-in-place order, we’ve been incredibly busy with projects. From…
Sunday Panorama
The studio building before we replaced the rug.
Birds and More Birds
Saturday I took part in an online birding event sponsored by the San Francisco Bird Observatory. It was pretty straightforward: go out and take pictures…