Ketchup cleans up!
Cleaning the tarnished brass treasures from the stables with a bath of ketchup. The results are pretty awesome.
Author: stega
Paving Snags
A driveway repaving project becomes a replace-the-main-water-line project, and I’m on day two without water.
Very slow changes in the garage
Agent Smith slowly makes the garage more useful, including a small, brightly lit work area along the back wall.
More weather news
It’s been just a tad windy this weekend. Who wants to be a kite?
All Hail!
Wind one day, ice and hail the next. It’s definitely never dull.
A Windy Day
A very windy day at Purgatory, on video.
Busy, busy, but nothing to see
Busy behind the scenes: cleaning up the website, cutting plugins and trackers, and writing about recent projects.
Tony Arrived This Week
Tony, our new 1990 Hesston 80-75 tractor, arrives, and day one includes a trip to the vet for Happy. He’s fine.
The End of Dry Rot
The dry rot is fixed, and we’re no longer in danger of a large section of the house falling down.
Furnace Filters
New return grills that take proper filters finish up the furnace project.
Pirate Booty!
Treasures from the stable cleanout: table saws, a barber chair and a hoard of solid brass knickknacks under the bird guano.
The Kitchen Table
My grandmother’s old kitchen table and chairs, finally refinished and in our kitchen.
The lack of updates
Why there have been few updates: Stega has been very ill. Plus, we have a logo!
More flowers @Purgatory
More flowers blooming at Purgatory.
The Best Mattress
How we finally found the best mattress, after years of sore backs.
West Wall Videos Up
Time-lapse videos of the west wall, plus a feral tabby hunting gophers and other Easter eggs.
South Wall Videos Now Up
Time-lapse videos of the south wall from the great wall project.
Dry Rot Galore, Part 2
Mills Custom Homes tackles the dry rot, a very sturdy Ace bandage rather than a final solution.
Fun with Dry Rot, Step One: Identify the Problem
Step one of dealing with the dry rot: documenting just how bad it is around the house.
Plumbing Problems
A leaky sewer line under the house and a pool equipment tap that blew out like a cannon.
More Stable Tales: The tack room and office disaster areas.
Cleaning out the last of the stables, the tack room and the office, under a giant quantity of bird crap.
Yeah, so that wasn’t very useful…
We killed our Facebook page for PAWDF as it was rather redundant.
More Stable Tales: More Messes
The third stall was chock full of nursery pots that tumbled out when you opened the door. The stable cleanout continues.
More Stable Tales: The Mess Inside
Clearing out the stables, starting with the left-side stalls and the junk the previous owners left inside.
Panoramas
Panoramas taken in March.
Manic Monday
More images that have been collecting dust, including the wood chipper and plans for a bigger garden outside my office.
Orphans and Administrata
Moving to an M-W-F posting schedule, and a roundup of orphaned photos from forgotten projects.
Of Mice and Mice
We’re battling mice and have caught close to a dozen in two months, plus more food stashes.
Race Car Driving
What it’s like driving one of the race cars at the 24 Hours of LeMons.
Saving the Stables
A new roof for the stables, built from railroad ties, telephone poles and old warehouse beams, buys us time to decide its future.
Outside
A movie of the flora and fauna images taken here in August, now on stega.org.
How do you change a light bulb?
The courtyard’s lights came from a road in Pasadena, and changing their bulbs takes a rented cherry picker.