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