The Kitchen Table
Way back in 2000, my grandmother moved out of the house she had lived in for close to fifty years, and as part of the…
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The lack of updates
For those wondering why there have been few updates in two weeks, the answer is simple: Stega has been very ill. Writing has resumed, and…
The Best Mattress
When Agent Smith and I first moved in to our place in San Francisco, we each had a queen-size bed. However, my mattress was too soft…
West Wall Videos Up
Here are more videos of the last month’s progress on the wall. In addition to the construction fun, some extra things you will see:-The guys…
South Wall Videos Now Up
As we have mentioned/hinted in recent posts, we are well into the great wall of Purgatory project. As Agent Smith noted last year, we were starting…
Dry Rot Galore, Part 2
To keep our house from literally rotting away, I originally intended to have the awesome contractor who took care of the utility closet door work and…
Fun with Dry Rot, Step One: Identify the Problem
We knew when we bought the house that we had dry rot issues to address. Even through the fresh (but badly done) paint job the…
Plumbing Problems
When we first took possession of the property, we had the drain pipes in the south/west wing replaced. We now know we really should have…
More Stable Tales: The tack room and office disaster areas.
Continued from the previous two posts: The last two areas of the stables to be cleaned out were the office and old tack room. Both of these, unlike…
Yeah, so that wasn’t very useful…
We killed our Facebook page for PAWDF as it was rather redundant. Either you read the site regularly, you stumble upon it and glance at…
More Stable Tales: More Messes
Continued from the last post: The stables finally got cleaned out thanks to a few laborers and a few dumpsters. While stalls one and two…
More Stable Tales: The Mess Inside
We’ve mentioned on occasion our very large pole barn (pic 1 below) that dates to around 1969, and the amount of junk left in it…
Panoramas
Extra post to start the week off. All of these were taken on March 3 and 4 of this year.
Manic Monday
Continuing from Friday’s post, here are some more images that have been sitting on the server collecting dust and waiting to get posted. 1. First an…
Orphans and Administrata
After a brief hiatus, during which I was busy coordinating projects and events here at Purgatory, I’ve finally had time to sit down and write a…
Of Mice and Mice
We are currently combating mice at Purgatory–we have caught close to a dozen of the little guys in the last two months. As you can see…
Race Car Driving
Ever wonder what it’s like to drive one of the race cars that reside at Purgatory? Here’s a video from the last 24 Hours of…
Saving the Stables
In late August/early September we had a team of guys here over two weekends to put a new roof on the stables. This was to…
Outside
This isn’t the only website related to our lives here at the ranch. Stega’s personal site, stega.org, now hosts images taken of the flora and…
How do you change a light bulb?
We have five rather fantastical lights surrounding our central courtyard at Purgatory. When the Doc visited last year he explained that the lights were originally installed…
Such Guilt
We have a lot of wildlife up here and a lot of it is small and fragile. Take the little guy pictured in the first…
‘Tis the Season…
…for Tarantulas! and earlier this month:
New Garden, Step 1: Remove the Concrete
Last year we had the septic tank replaced, and since then the patch outside my office has been just bare dirt. A few weeks ago…
Do not be alarmed.
Long, annoying story made short: previous owners had an alarm system on the house. Where we live the police will not respond to a home alarm registering…
Psst, want some pot(s)?
I got back on the stable clean-out project a few days ago. We already had a dumpster on the property as Agent Smith was working…
More buttons!
A few weeks back I came home from a class up north and Agent Smith informed me that the right side garage door was “busted.”…
Let’s go fly a plane…
One of the enticements of Purgatory not mentioned before is that Agent Smith can easily partake in one of his very favorite hobbies: flying RC…
Things that don’t make logical sense
Purgatory is a rather vast property compared to a typical dwelling. Granted, a homestead or true cattle ranch would dwarf us in comparison, but we…
The Disemboweling of Purgatory, Part 4: Ducts
As noted in the previous posts, we had our furnaces tuned up and a new thermostat installed for one of them. The next step was getting…
The Bowels of Purgatory, Part 3: Thermostat Enlightenment
One of the more stupid things here at Purgatory was the location of the thermostat for Furnace A. (For those that missed the last few…