Stripping Down A big big project went down while I was off on vacation back in March/April of 2019. The chimney got… Continue reading “Stripping Down”…
Additional Pool Cover Notes A super cool thing Agent Smith has created for the pool is documented in the below image. That black dot… Continue reading “Additional Pool Cover Notes”…
Blue Room Refresh: Part 2 Continuing on from Monday’s post, back in early February of 2019 we ordered a Murphy bed from murphybeds.com and it… Continue reading “Blue Room Refresh: Part 2”…
SCU Lightning Complex and Midge As most of the world knows, a lot of the state of California is currently on fire. Right now the… Continue reading “SCU Lightning Complex and Midge”…
Blue Room Refresh: Part 1 One of the first big changes I made to the house was to paint the blue room. Originally a very… Continue reading “Blue Room Refresh: Part 1”…
Leakage The pool resurfacing project was completed back in 2017. In the winter of 2018 though we started to notice that… Continue reading “Leakage”…
Another Vacation for Stega In March of 2019 I left the ranch again for a much needed vacation. This time I spent 16 days… Continue reading “Another Vacation for Stega”…
Linens and Things Continuing the theme of quality of life improvements from last week, a very simple one put in place a year… Continue reading “Linens and Things”…
Long Lines So this post is more along the line of a strict documentary for our own purposes than to provide entertainment… Continue reading “Long Lines”…
Another Bit of Electricity Before Shelter In Place, one of the things that I regularly did, especially in the winter months was turn on… Continue reading “Another Bit of Electricity”…
Lick the Cookie One of bits of decor we’ve added to the house is a long (and growing longer) row of patent plaques… Continue reading “Lick the Cookie”…
Contest Restart Two years I was unsuccessful in finding a suitable name for our apatosaurus. Thus I’m restarting the contest! Details: this… Continue reading “Contest Restart”…
Battery Backup: Hosed The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a hose we use… Continue reading “Battery Backup: Hosed”…
Battery Backup: The Install As detailed in the previous post, we decide to forgo installing a big diesel generator to provide backup power and… Continue reading “Battery Backup: The Install”…