Posted on 2015-08-08 in Happenings, HomeMade
A few unexpected developments today. One was that Mariel didn’t really me /out/ of the bigger, heavier, more expensive shelf for the garage.
Another was that, while I did have the foresight to remove one middle chair from the bus, i removed the wrong one. This meant that Mariel had to ride in the trunk, 80’s style.
The last unconsiderable was how much work I’d have to do in order to make space in the cluttered garage to place the shelves in order to un clutter the garage.
It all worked out though, house improved.
Posted on 2015-08-01 in HomeMade
Okay, I “fixed” the controller by finding out that a few zones just don’t work.
It could be something that needs to be programmed but the screen is busted… So I have a new controller coming but until then I won’t have to wrestle the spiders to manually start up citrus hill.
Posted on 2015-07-25 in Happenings, HomeMade
Phew – yesterday was a big day. We (Kevin and I) strapped the water heater, painted a tiny spot outside the house, cleaned up a million palms trees and weeded/mulched some stuff (Tami and Mariel handled all that). Ooh, and fixed some irrigation and emptied more boxes.
Found a spider that cast a big shadow. Used a wide variety of tools which confirmed by bias for collecting them.
And then had a semi furnished little dinner party after that.
Lots of homemade.
Multi-disciplinary tool use day. Used circular saw for the 2×4″ standoff behind the tank. Rotary tool to adjust the size of the water heater strap. Tapped and drilled a new hole through the steel, filed off the ends to reduce bleeding, ratchet for driving the lag bolts into the studs and clamps galore.
And I was able to lend out tarps to a neighbor, use my pull saw to cut some palm bark, and the ladder to get the joist painted (where it was cut for dry rot before tenting). Usually I feel lots of guilt for hoarding so many tools – but today kind of made up for a huge chunk of that because I had /almost/ everything we needed to complete lots of muffins .
Posted on 2015-07-23 in Happenings
Today was a hot tub refurbishment day. Had to drain out what we got and refill it with fresh waters and add the concoction explained to me by a mystic spa shop guy.
Since we had to wait for it to drain, and I had to scrub it down I figured we would let the oppressive summer sun great our water.
At the very least, it was a good excuse to empty moving bins and teach the kids about solar energy.
We got about 320 gallons cooked up to 93°F degrees and it took about 15 minutes to fill the tub once I was done cleaning it. Then it took about one hour for the electric heater to get it back up to 102°F
Most necessary after straining our backs moving. The spa was sitting in my blind spot for the whole new house thing. But it’s a pretty good perk.
Posted on 2015-07-22 in HomeMade
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Quail/id
Saw these two little birds walking in the yard today.
Posted on 2015-07-22 in Happenings, HomeMade
Buying a home is a like a new hobby in that there is no limit to the amount of time, worry, and money you can pour into it.
I wanted to post all sorts of home stuff but watned to redesign the site a bit first, or maybe make an offshoot for storing just home related stuff.
But now I’m thinking “MOAR CONTENT BETTER” and I’ll throw more stuff at the wall and do a post process sort.
Tagged as “HomeMade”
First thing is to make a place to put the list of things to put the list of things on in order to put the list of things somewhere.