Race Maintenance
Went out to French Creek to do some maintenance on the race course Wednesday night. From what I hear, it’s a very difficult course. It’s described as riding around and finding every possible hill to climb. I wouldn’t know. Don’t get to ride much anymore. Anyway, we had some trees to cut and course routing […]
Easter 2011
We headed to Nettie’s for Easter. We thought we had everything Baby Grandma Baby’s Easter dress Baby’s play clothes Baby’s diaper bag A bazillion shoes for the baby Awesome Easter cake that tasted like piña colada Camera with batteries charged Memory card for the camera to take cool pictures of Abigail in her Easter dress […]
Jaws
First a bad diaper rash, then some fussiness. Next came some poor sleeping habits we hadn’t seen in a while. It all made sense when we saw the little tooth coming in on the bottom next to the two that were already there. Then the bad sleeping habits got worse – nursing to sleep, waking […]
Hoist/Storage FAIL
Click on the first photo to see what was poorly designed. I forgot the very necessary second set of pullies. No wonder it cost half as much as I expected. I also didn’t take into account the weight of two folding tables. Dumb, dumb, dumb. – b
Abigail’s First Paddle
We finally got Abigail out for a paddle today. It was cloudy and rainy for most of the day, then about 3:30 it cleared up and got warm. I told Jen it was the perfect time to go, so we packed up and headed over to the lake. It really wasn’t meant to be anything […]
Lessons in Vinyl
So I installed a boat rack last week. It required I cut the vinyl siding on my garage and lag bolt the rack pieces into the studs. Never worked with vinyl before how hard could it be? Made some cuts, leveled some stuff and screwed it down. Voila! Not so fast. Now there’s gaps between […]
Cutting the Cord
Jen and I are trackball people. We made the switch from mice like eight years ago and never turned back. When wireless devices became cool a few years back, we were ready to believe, but they didn’t make a decent wireless trackball. The only one out there had a wireless trackball, but a huge wired […]
Solar Updates
Finally made some updates to the Solar page. You can see it by clicking here, or go right to the 2011 update here. Sorry. Didn’t spend too much time formatting or making things look nice. Nor did I do the individual day profile/links for 2011. I took the USGS approach, but that’s a private joke […]
No Poker Face
Had a second guy come out to the house last night for an estimate on a basement waterproofing fix. He was real friendly and nice. Said most of the right things and what I expected. Finally gives me the estimate. It’s $500 – $700 more than the first guy and he won’t move the water […]
Weekend Review – Finally
Don’t remember Saturday. I think it rained. It was cold, and our basement got wet again. Sunday was breezy and warm. The hope/plan was to get out with Abigail on the bike or in the boat (i.e. canoe). Considering we only had one of the PFDs we wanted to try and it was just too […]