The weather has continued to be crappy so Sunday I worked in the shop instead of on it. I started cutting out the brackets for the fence in the front yard. It was going well with about 20 of them …
I worked with Katy back in 2003 and she was the model for some of my favorite photos, as well as being our go to gal when we needed really tiny Victorian clothes modeled. Due to a series of health …
One chore that our fire company really looks forward to is the annual hose test. This means taking every piece of hose off of the fire engine, testing it and then re-racking it. This year we got some new hose …
Our studio building is getting a new roof installed and so there’s been lots of pounding going on. Kind of hard to keep the pictures hanging straight on the walls with the constant vibration so for awhile I’ve given up …
Last night we went and watched Earl Thomas play in Eureka. While I was using the men’s room, I couldn’t help but notice the name on the urinal. Just the day my friend John Maddock emailed me that the Maddock …
It’s been very drippy in Ferndale lately, if it’s not outright raining, the fog has been heavy enough that it might as well be raining. So painting days have been few and far between. Today we finally got a break …
Like I needed another project. We opened the box from our purchase a week ago to find that there are 80 different types of parts and a rough estimate of probably 1000 total parts that need to be assembled. We …
Over a few days and in between rain showers I was able to get the top of the front painted. I’m really glad I got the loan of the scaffolding, but I’ll still be happier working down on the ground.
Lori’s been attacking the herb garden with some gusto and it’s starting to look much better. I think I’ve finally convinced her that even though she wants to be a green gardener, slug bait is a good thing. In addition …
A few weeks ago I was on my way to the post office when I noticed a ceiling fan for sale in front of the Mercantile store for $25. Since I was planning to put a fan in the workshop …
Both bikes finally got put back together so we got up early this morning and went for a ride in the South Fork mountains before Blake had to leave for the Bay Area. We took Redwood House Road, over to …
Blake came up this weekend with the intention of having one day to wrench and then go on a two day camping trip as a test for our trip later this year. Due to unforseen problems that we encountered on …
The traditional start to Memorial Day Weekend is to go up to Arcata for the start of the Kinetic Sculpture Race. Yesterday we found out that there was a Harbor Freight store in Arcata so we stopped there first as …
Once the crew from DCI Builders finished with the shell, I got to work installing the electrical. I was hoping to use some of the existing wiring from the original garage, but every circuit that I opened up had problems. …
The area over the posts in the front of the motorcycle garage has this neat little alcove that I thought would be a great place to display my computer museum. I’ve been saving most of the computers that I’ve used …
I was enjoying my morning coffee on the futon and since I got up early with Lori, I got to watch the sunrise. As the sun was sneeking through the trees along Williams Creek, it lit up the garden in …
Beautiful weather on our two days off this week, but today was the kicker. We had Phil and Diane over for lunch and afterwards it was so nice that we walked up Williams Creek road for a bit. Phil mentioned …
Today I got another ride in the CDF helicopter, and like the two previous years when I got to go up in it, we ended up flying directly over our house. That makes it pretty hard to get a picture …
The last few days our yard has been visited by the neighbor’s chickens in the afternoon. The same neighbors who we ended up ‘borrowing’ Artie from. So I guess he’s used to them. Their dog Katie, also shows up in …
Just a few days after getting both vehicles moved into the garage, I found that I had been evicted. I came home to find the garage doors installed, or at least partly. They weren’t hooked up to the lifters yet …
This afternoon the FVFD received a call for a small vegetation fire reported near Capetown. Now Capetown isn’t that far away, but the problem is you have to go up the Wildcat to get there, and our over the hill …
In an amazing bit of luck, it never rained while we had the roof off of the garage. Paul Cosentino of Redwood Empire Roofing worked on the roof which was nice since he’s a member of the Ferndale Fire Department. …
Worked on cleaning the garage of all the construction materials so that we could get both cars in. Putting the car in the garage is such a foreign concept for us since we haven’t been able to do that since …
Finally got a chance to walk to work this week and I was noticing all the flowers on the way. We even have a few in our own garden that survived the flooding and rain. But along Rose Ave. I …
Today they finished putting up the four stable doors for the motorcycle garage. These are dutch doors which will provide some good photo opportunities once the garage is painted. We’re waiting for the garage doors to be delivered which should …
The garage now has new siding so pretty soon I’ll be slapping up some colors to test. It’s going to be barn red, with tan trim. This is the back side where my workshop is. The windows were left over …
The rain has finally stopped for awhile and that means it’s time to go outside and take pictures. This is the first shoot I’ve done with Mallery, and we went out to Ocean House in Loleta where I was hoping …
After a couple of years of our front fence consisting of just poles, I finally started working on it again. Part of the delay was that I didn’t want to buy any new power tools until I had the garage …
Lori’s idea for the garage was to give each motorcycle it’s own “stall” and I thougth that was a pretty clever idea so we went with it. There will eventually be dutch doors on each stall.
Just another progress shot of the garage. You might be getting sick of these, but at least there have been pictures this month. It really is nice to be able to get the bikes in and out so easily. I …
