Our friend Liesl came by this evening and helped us harvest our mason bee tubes. It was fascinating to see the process of unwrapping the tu...

Jeff finally had time to work on our shed step project. These were built with pressure-treated plywood and 2x4s leftover from building our s...

Since we've been emptying out the left wall of the garage we had some extra racks that needed to find a new home. We decided to see if t...

Almost a month ago we discovered a bunch of really thick pavers that ran along the edge of the old driveway. Jeff dug them out and removed ...

It's not just a clever name. There are so many leaves in our yard right now. I hope we have another couple dry days so we can clean up t...

I was really psyched when Jeff found a Crandall Clove Currant I wanted for the Hidden Garden at Portland Nursery this past weekend — on cle...

I was planning to wait and post photos when we finally finished this project, but with the way our weather has been behaving, I'm not su...

Jeff and Aaron managed to fill all the nail holes and do more priming on Friday. I painted the first coat of paint on the door. Since it ...

The weather has finally cooled off and we have several days of weather with low risk of rain in the forecast so today—finally—we got to work...

I hope all our friends and followers are having a nice holiday season. We're having a pretty quiet month so far. For the first time in o...

We still need to finish installing the little chicken door and the interior wall, but the exterior is complete! I might have installed t...

I'm pretty happy about having progress again. Tim's bid was a bit more than we wanted to pay, but no doubt reasonable for the time...

The guys have made some progress on the coop/shed, but I've been too lazy to make it outside to take pictures. We are obviously on the t...

And they finally finished installing the shingles! Some of the shingles appear tannish in color; that is because they have been sitting...

The last time Erik was out to work on our shed was Jun 2, but here it is Jun 18 and only half the roofing has been installed. In fairness, ...

Finally, another day of work happened. It got really hot, but at least it wasn't raining, for a nice change. Today they starting framing...