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 […]
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
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
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:
I made a display case with some scrap wood left over from the wet bar project. It was much harder than it should have been. Lesson learned – Just buy the right-sized router bit from the beginning instead of trying multiple passes with the wrong sized bit.
Michael Uhlenkott https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/muhlenkott) made our dreams come true! One of the reasons we bought and kept the Great Dale was the amazing carpet. We were devastated when I had to remove it and hired someone to make a digital copy of it. We spent months and hundreds of dollars in 2022 trying to recreate it…only
The floor around the Tiki bar was getting sketchy: We initially wanted to get the floor sanded and finish it ourselves, but it turned out that the floor was much prettier than we expected: So we decided to let the floor finisher add their special epoxy finish: and it looked great The floor finisher said
Finished a side project 12 years in the making! I converted a true “Porta-Fi” system. We bought this stereo in 2013 and I found a weird box inside it that didn’t seem to do anything. A vintage electronic show happened to be going on that weekend, so we took the box to the show where
Lina did an amazing job decorating the house for Christmas: We opened up the house again and had this spread out for guests: Here are some photos from outside:
Our Tiki space was missing some nude velvet paintings, so we jumped on a chance to buy two at auction. They came in a roll, so: Once we had them in person, Lina figured that one of the “nudes” was really a monster and the boobs were just a lure for the claw. I think