Battery Backup: Hosed
The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a hose we use…
Category: Update
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty-punny sort of title came to mind for this post.) Back in early 2019 I started scouring the…
Gutter Addendum
Once Humberto and Alonzo were done with the massive exterior painting and fixing project, I had Commercial Gutter, the mob…
Touching up some leaves
Shortly after the floors were done and the boys had been moved back into their pace, I also retouched the…
Can’t see the trees for all the trees
Where we live in California we have three seasons: winter, spring and fire. If you pay any attention to current…
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 Site is Now Open for Comments
When we first started writing about all the stuff here, we kept comments disabled as the idea of moderating a…
Arcadia
A somewhat odd fact about the living space here at Purgatory is that we have many exterior doors for both…
If the same tree falls
Back in the winter of 2016 we had a tree out near the north gate fall onto the electric line…