I gave up waiting for the outdoor dust cover and we went ahead and installed the seats on the patio furniture. I am really looking forward t...

Today started out with snow, but it didn't stick. And, surprisingly, by the afternoon the day had turned sunny.  So, we finally made a l...

Aaron, with some help from Jeff, removed one of the maple trees that was next to the building at the property line last week. There were two...

The backyard is finished, for now. We still plan to put in a chicken coop, but that will wait until fall/winter when our contractor friends ...

Jeff and Aaron worked the last two days installing the pavers in our back patio. Yesterday they worked at putting in the rest of the gravel ...

Aaron and Jeff and have been working hard at clearing out the lower portion of our backyard. In the years since we got rid of the chickens t...

We have gotten almost nothing done the last month. Jeff went off to Texas for a long weekend of WW2 reenactment and brought home a cold-from...

We've really enjoyed this great weather. Jeff and his friend Aaron have continued to work on the yard, cleaning it up. It's been a r...

Our yard has been an embarrassing mess for years. When we bought this house, the dirt was so full of plants and flowers, we had a hard ti...

Jeff has been working on digging out the floor of the pergola when the weather is cool enough. I've finished staining the door for th...

I applied the first coat of stain on the fence, but I still have a lot of detail work still to do on the diamonds. Wow, this sucks. I can...

Jeff got the first coat done today! As a reminder, we are using opaque white stain, not paint. We should cut back that bush that is block...

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...

Jeff paid his friend Eric to come help him finish assembling the pergola last month. Sadly, we did not get it finished this past summer and ...

We started off the day scrambling to get the boards for the pergola stained. The weather was clear and we got quite a lot of them done. It d...

At long last, we have finally started the pergola for real. We had hoped to start sooner, but our weather lately has NOT cooperated. Yesterd...