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More house stuff 5 Jun 2013 | 07:00 am
Progress on our new house keeps progressing. Next week the second coat of stucco, the brown coat it’s called, goes on. After it sits for a month, the color coat will be applied. We have stretched out ...
Smart advertising? 5 Jun 2013 | 02:36 am
Lots of Web sites have advertising that appears alongside their regular content. Some of them accept and display ads that are delivered to them by sites you may have visited earlier. After I have been...
Everyday 4 Jun 2013 | 10:05 am
How many times do you see the word everyday used when the user means every day? When I went to school, the word everyday meant common, usual, ordinary: “He wore his everyday outfit, jeans and a t-shir...
Busy day 4 Apr 2013 | 08:03 am
To put in our solar power system we have to build a support structure to hold the 15 big panels. We were instructed by the engineers to dig 10 holes to hold the uprights, two-inch galvanized water pip...
Such a deal! 3 Apr 2013 | 07:35 am
I can’t believe those women just walked past such an opportunity to save. Cell phone pix: Tom Hurley
Make a hole… 2 Apr 2013 | 02:29 am
Tim directs as Luke eases the Bobcat onto our temporary platform …times ten. Well, nine. When we started the project, we discovered that the little Bobcat hole digger can’t be used on too steep a slo...
Starting the solar project 30 Mar 2013 | 05:24 am
Today we decided for sure where the solar panels will go. We also decided which “south” to use, what I like to call “local south.” It isn’t magnetic south which is 14° off true in these parts, and not...
Starting to look like a house… 28 Mar 2013 | 02:04 am
Yesterday Kevin and his crew slapped “mud” on the house and it started to look really solid, not like a bunch of tar paper, expanded metal and chicken wire. Eight guys can move a lot of material and i...
A clean bill of health (aside from being crazy) 25 Mar 2013 | 07:22 am
On Monday March 18 I experienced a weird event. At noon Karla and I had just finished eating a tuna sandwich when I got hit with what the doctors call a mini seizure. It was brief—a five-to-ten-second...
A couple of Ben pix 21 Feb 2013 | 06:00 am
It’s been awhile since I’ve shown grandson Benjamin. He’s still growing and getting smarter by the day. Here he is reading about the physics of water—how it can be in vapor phase, liquid, or solid. He...
