I spent the whole weekend stripping the wall paper in the room that’s going to be my office. Got rid of the ugly black, pink and green wallpaper, only to reveal beautiful pink walls. I can’t wait until that bit …
Working on my room at home, trying to get it ready in time for moving the office back home. Here’s the ceiling medallion that will be going in that room. I took this picture so I can experiment with the …
I mentioned the lengthy paint job on the church earlier this month, well I’ve had an ongoing paint project myself. There isn’t really a painting season in Ferndale, you grab days here and there when it is sunny enough, dry …
Our refrigerator had been running warm lately but it was sporadic so we put off calling the repairman. I was trying to figure out a pattern why sometimes it would be warm and sometimes it would run fine so I …
After several days of digging through almost solid rock I finished the trench for the power supply to the water pump. I also decided to run a water line into the greenhouse to make it more convenient to water plants …
The rain continued today so it was a perfect day to finish up the crown molding project in the music room. Previously I put up the middle section, and today I put up the top and bottom sections. Everything went …
This cold snap just won’t go away. The low has been in the low to mid twenties the last three days and that means our water has been freezing over. I meant to remember to leave some running and forgot …
A cold front moving down from Alaska has brought the coldest weather to Ferndale since we’ve moved here. This morning I was watching TV and had just gotten through the weather report where they were talking about the storm when …
This year we seemed to have endless trouble keeping our Christmas lights lit. It seemed on any one night either the damp conditions would cause the GFI circuit breaker to trip, or the timer would malfunction and wouldn’t turn the …
Well one thing breaking my toe last week did was to motivate me to install the molding in my room so it wouldn’t be a hazard in the hall anymore. Now that I have a compound miter saw I could …
In one shot I can show you both of the things I did today. First, in a rare occurence in Ferndale, it was too hot to be painting. An offshore breeze has warmed up the coast the last few days, …
Those of you who aren’t Ferndalers won’t get the pun in the title, so I have to explain that in town we have a market called the Red Front Store. I’m finally finished painting the front of the barn. I …
Today was just like yesterday, foggy and drippy, so back to work on the greenhouse. We got all the panels installed and started moving in everything that Lori would need for her new garden center. Even with it being a …
My plan for the weekend was to finish painting the front of the garage. But today was drippy and foggy all day long so Lori and I worked on the other project. If you hadn’t figured it out by now …
I’ve been doing a lot of painting lately, and still have way more to go. I’m starting to think this may be the only project I work on for the rest of the summer.
It was a bit windy today, but we invited Phil and Diane over so with four people we decided to see how much we could get put together. The instructions for this kit leave a lot to be desired. Some …
Here’s the blank for the brackets I’m cutting out. Step one is to do the rough cut with the jig saw. Then cut a notch with the band saw. Then sand them to the final profile. Then route the edges. …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
