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February 16th, 2010 @ 10.45 pm

When it snowed in December, I didn’t have any sleds with me. But when it snowed earlier this month, I did, but couldn’t find a good hill within walking distance. After the second big storm of the month Beverly and I went on a 4.5 mile hike in search of one, but none of the streets were steep enough.

Rather than give up, I made do with what I had, which was a pile of snow over 6′ tall that was left from clearing the driveway and sidewalk. Here’s the results as recorded by Beverly and uploaded to Vimeo:

Sure, it’s not quite up to Olympics Luge standards, but I certainly had fun.

February 7th, 2010 @ 11.17 am

If anyone knows me well, they know I turn into a five year old when it snows. I don’t like the cold winters (who does when the alternative is soaking up the sun by the pool in 80 degree weather?), but I’ll tolerate them as long as there’s snow. For the past several years, we’ve gotten little to nothing. But finally! This year we’re finally getting the snow I’ve been waiting for! In December when we received ~16″ of snow, I just knew it wasn’t going to be the biggest of the winter. I knew we’d get a storm to rival the February 2003 storm – we’d gone too long without a big storm. (Coincidentally, the 2002-2003 winter also had a 10″ storm in early December.) So enough babbling… there’s a bunch of pictures over in the gallery.

December 30th, 2009 @ 11.04 pm

As we build the garage, we had the video camera off to the side capturing most of the action. With help from friends and family we were able to build the garage in under two months, all while going to our regular 9-5 jobs during the day. We couldn’t have done it without them (Thanks guys!). There were many evenings of work that didn’t get filmed, but the tasks done then were mostly the small details that wouldn’t be very exciting on video anyway.

It’s now the end of December and I still do not have electricity or a driveway, but they are in the works. But for now, I have a dry place to keep my car, and space to work on it which were the main goals. Sit back and enjoy the video of us doing all the hard work!

December 15th, 2009 @ 10.42 pm

The cute little red shed that was in our back yard did it’s job for probably 40 years, but it was falling apart. I kept the mower in it, but I also put a tarp over the mower to keep the rain off, and used anything solid to prop the doors “closed.” The sill plates were rotted out, the doors were about to fall off their hinges at any moment and decompose, and there was daylight visible through the roof. Once the garage was up, the mower had a new home, and the shed no longer was needed, and so I waited for a good day to take it down.

I could have carefully dismantled it. Or I could have taken a saw and cut it to pieces. Or even a sledge hammer to break it apart. But when I’m taking down an entire (very small) building, why not go all out and pull it down with a truck? I waited until I had a reasonably dry and sunny day to have fun, but it has been so wet this fall I still had trouble with traction. Oh well, it was still lots of fun tearing down the shed.

December 3rd, 2009 @ 9.57 am

September and October I spent every daylight hour I could outside working on the garage, and as of October 30th, the building was ready for final inspection. (Passed on November 12th) Whit and myself carried all of the roof trusses up to roof level one day, and then Beverly’s dad, Beverly and myself uprighted them the next. After that we finished sheathing the side walls, and then sheathed the roof to finish out “phase 1.2.” Read the rest of this entry »

September 21st, 2009 @ 10.05 pm

The foundation was finished with the pouring of the slab last Tuesday, and then on Wednesday the wood was delivered. I did a little bit in the evenings, but mostly I was able to organize everything and get ready for working over the weekend. On Saturday I had Beverly, Whit, my Mom, Madison, Jared and Billy all helping out for all or part of the day. We were able to get 2.5 walls done by Saturday evening. On Sunday we kept working and were able to get the rest of the walls and the header boards up. Thank you to everyone who helped out – I couldn’t have done it without you guys. Here’s a few pictures – the rest can be found in the gallery.

I do still have some more cripple studs to put in and sheathing to do on the front walls, but the heavy lifting is done until we lift the trusses up next weekend. Anyone interested?