More Administrative Stuff
Rescuing old videos of the driveway and the dog kennel from the dead photo stream.
Author: stega
Old Walkthroughs Back Up
Our original 2015 house walkthroughs, re-edited and annotated with what’s changed.
The End of Jury Duty
Jury duty is over, and I celebrated like any ranch girl would, by moving a few tons of rocks.
Dogs gone a tad crazy? (Weekend Bonus Video)
The neighbor’s dogs meet our new dinosaur, and lose it.
Something Wonderful Arrived
Our first dinosaur arrived: a fiberglass Brontosaurus that once lived in the garden of the late Carrie Fisher.
Summer Clean Up, Part 2
Summer cleanup: digging out the buried asphalt, old mattresses and other garbage behind the stables.
Summer Clean Up, Part 1
Summer cleanup: collecting the old fence rails and debris the previous owners left in the south pasture.
Stuff on the walls
New prints in the hallways, posted while I sit through jury duty.
Second Purgatory Contest: And the Winner is…
Our second contest has a winner, with an exact guess of 289 panes.
Steeling Ourselves, Part 3 of 3
The new steel ladders are painted, and before and after shots.
Steeling Ourselves, Part 2 of 3
F&F Steel installs the new roof ladders and cages.
Steeling Ourselves, Part 1 of 3
Safety first: new steel ladders for the great room and studio roofs.
How do you get a flood on a mountain?
A tap left slightly open and a half-assed fix by the previous owners led to an inch of water in the studio.
Wall-a-versary
A year ago, we were racing to replace the failed retaining wall.
Meet Chompy Jack and Dumpy McDumpface
Meet Chompy Jack, our new trencher, and Dumpy McDumpface, a Yanmar C-20R from Craigslist.
Mystery Plaque
A mystery plaque from one of the driveway lights, plus plans for new glass in the smaller lights.
A little birdy…
The little kookaburra sculpture we saw in Melbourne in 2009 finally arrives.
Now Open: Purgatory Heavy Equipment School
Visitors get to try out the excavator and other toys at the Purgatory Heavy Equipment School.
More with the Administration
Cleaning up and tagging some 1,500 images on the site’s backend.
Details for the Second @Purgatory Contest!
The second Purgatory contest: guess how many window panes we have.
Birds and Windows: New Contest @Purgatory
Our many windows are hard on the birds, and that’s the theme for our second contest.
Expanding Our Impact
Organizing the neighbors to clean up an illegal dump site along our road, after the county didn’t.
Barbie’s Driver Seat Renovation
New parts for Barbie’s driver’s seat, so long drives no longer mean a sore back.
Bambi’s Arrival
After four excavators on the wall project, we bought our own: a John Deere 35D named Bambi.
Owlets
Seven owlets in the stables. They hiss, but almost never at me.
The Blooms of Purgatory
Spring flowers.
Mini-Break
A short break this week, with posts on the neighborhood cleanup, safety ladders, baby owls and a studio flood coming soon.
Sheep Are Very Annoying
A neighbor’s sheep kept wandering onto our land, all through the pool resurfacing project.
Spoils of Purgatory
Agent Smith builds a sifter to sort the asphalt spoils from the old driveway.
Toilet Talk
A wobbly Squatty Potty, a misdirected replacement and a new Kohler toilet in the half-bath.
Excavation Fun
A busted irrigation box and a big open hole behind the garage, sorted out by our gardener.
Let’s not let this happen again…
Heavy rain, a clogged roof drain and our first roof leak, right over the foyer.