I had to go to Cincinnati for work and it turns out to be a pretty great little city. The big highlight was finding this museum just before it was recommended to me by a friend. This place is magnificent and is an american treasure. https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ The Tiki Bar, Tiki-Tiki Bang Bang, was pretty fun: […]
We’re part of the Friendly Average Campers group and it has been a while since we went camping with them. So we decided to try and make it for their annual event in Grand Lake. The Airstream made it: I managed to get on the lake twice with our new kayak, even though it rained
I accidentally signed up for a camping trip on the same weekend we were supposed to go to Canada and Tennessee. We decided to camping, which meant we had to get the Airstream roadworthy. I basically took the month of July off to make that happen. We actually removed and replaced the belly pan in
Ohana Luau at the Lake at the Tiki Resort in Lake George is one of our favorite events of the year! It starts with a costume party on Thursday: Then the room crawls start on Friday. They’re called room crawls because people used to decorate their rooms with a theme and invite people to experience
Our friends Brad and Pam bought a cabin in the mountains and the terrain is pretty crooked on their property. I thought that this was exact scenario Roorkee chairs were made for…and I wanted to make something for someone else; so I decided to make some chairs for Brad, Pam, Roger, and Suzie because they
As I mentioned before: one of the reasons we bought the Great Dale was the carpet…and one of the reasons we sold it was because I had to rip it out. We spent a LOT of time and money trying to bring it to life a couple of years ago and failed miserably. I made
I’ve been using portable heaters and swamp coolers to heat and cool my shop and office for years because I was too cheap to get a mini-split installed and too scared to install one myself. The swamp coolers could barely keep up in the last few years, so I finally bit the bullet and figured
The 100-mile winds have taken a toll on our outdoor Tikis; as you can see by the chunks taken out of this guy. Almost every one have been have been blown over at least once, so… in keeping our tradition of sticking poles up Moais and Tikis; I decided to fill them up with hard
The Fantastic Caverns billboards on the way to Springfield, MO finally wore me down after two trips and I decided to check it. I went on a Wednesday afternoon and managed to get a private tour of what isn’t the best cavern I’ve ever been to, but it sure was the largest! They are so
We aren’t good of keeping track of all the little things we do around the house, so here’s a 2025 update of the party Pit and Tiki Bar area of the house: And here they are again a little later. No clotheslines this time: