Now that we've finished the sewing room, our next project is to finish staining the pergola and side fence. I regret not staining the wo...

While it could use some more tamping to drive more sand into the joints, the sand is so wet and clumpy that it's not really possible to ...

When we purchased the house last year, there was this chimney that extended all the way up through the house from the basement and quite a b...

Jeff and Sharon both had unfun birthdays this year. In June, on Sharon's birthday, we were organizing the garage. Yesterday, on Jeff...

Jeff had a volunteer teaching gig today at noon, but he still got lots of digging done before he had to leave. Shasta was extra cute trompin...

If the weather cooperates this week, Jeff is going to put in the new front walk. Today we worked on layout and figuring out the amounts of g...

Holy cow, these gray bricks are hard to clean!! Now we know we didn't get our money's worth. Sharon spent several hours cleaning bri...

Obviously we love cleaning bricks, because we went and got more! We bought 300 gray bricks, still with mortar, from someone on craigslist to...

Jeff worked hard today finishing up digging the last two rain gardens on the side of the house. He's almost there. Unfortunately, this h...

Continuing his amazing productivity trend, Jeff (with some schlepping help from Sharon) spent about 3 hours scraping mortar off bricks today...

Well, at least a start anyway. Here is how the area behind the house looked the other day. Two free ads on craigslist and an hour later the ...