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The crew showed up on Monday to deliver materials and get stuff set up. Yesterday they arrived and got right to work. In no time, half the roof was off: We also decided to have all the old bead board, that is covered with that awful paint with sand in
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So we got a bid for a roofer, he said he could do it this summer, then it was next year, and then we convinced him that we really wanted it done by Oct. and he agreed. He then called tonight and said he could start next week. Now it's time for me to take
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Things have been slow around here in terms of house work. It may be directly proportional to how busy Atticus is: if we could just absorb his energy we might be able to get work done during his nap instead of needing naps ourselves! So what have we accomplished?
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So I haven't done much around the house lately. I'm not even sure what my last "real" project was. Today I cleared off the concrete countertops and put a new layer of wax on them and polished them. Does that count for home improvement? If I had a free
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I'm still unemployed and have a bunch of free time, so last week I worked on a project I've had on the back burner for a while. Nick's Graphing Mortgage Calculator There are a zillion mortgage calculators on the web, some of which are similar to this
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Being unemployed hasn't helped my stress level much, but it's starting to have an effect on the various projects around here: I've got three four window sashes glued up. nine eight more to go. I glued up two remaining cabinet doors for the kitchen Also
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Well, it wasn't a great day. My company notified me this morning, along with the engineering team I ran, that they decided to lay us off effective immediately and move the positions overseas. There have been a number of layoffs in the past few months
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A quick update about this topic . The morning after my previous post on the subject, a man from U.P.S Store HQ contacted me. He had read my post (is he a Houseblogger? Is it his job to mine the internet for words like "U.P.S." and "destroyed"?) and said
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01/18/2008 Update: I have an update to this post, which I've placed at the end. 01/23/2008 Update: I've made a second post about this, here . Once upon a time, when I was 3 or 4, my dad made me a workbench. People are always asking me how I learned to
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Nick's got all the pieces cut for the rest of the first floor windows and has done a dry fit. This week he will order the glass and after that comes, he will begin assembling them. I've been thinking about the backsplash in the kitchen and how high I
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Or... "You can never own too many clamps." Nick's been busy the past few weeks using up all the salvaged fir we had left. There's enough wood for the sashes, but we'll have to buy wood for the frames. He glued up all the pieces, put them through the planer,
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After reading the featrued story on House Blogs by Jeanne "Built-In... Form and Function" , I began thinking about what built-ins we have done and which are my favorite. (Or favorite so far, as we've got a lot of house left that we haven't re-furbished.)
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Fall is usually busy. Being a teacher includes all the back-to-school stuff, extra planning, progress reports went home last week and I have teacher-parent conferences this week. The stomach flu hit us a couple of weeks ago and things are just now starting
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So, we've got a bunch of little things to do, but it seems to take forever to get some done. Nick's done a great job with the gutters, and made some good progress on the kitchen cabinets. I'm feeling like I need to get out my large tablet of paper and
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Nick dug out the ladder and tackled the garden we had growing in the gutters and the valleys on our roof. After he cleared a ton of moss, branches and small plants from the south side of the roof I brought out his climbing harness and rope so he could
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