The shop had a window rotting out. The window buyer mistook my “studs 24 on center” and brought home a 24”x30” rough opening window. I made it...
Very little has survived. You can see bands along the top of the wall, around the door, above the chair rail here where I’m working on the...
Excellent! Thank you!!
Had today off, and replaced some roof nails with the gasket missing on the shop roof. Made a jig to allow me to pull the nail. Added a spot of...
The dog found some shade from the lift basket. In the background is another project underway. I’m insulating the shop, in part to manage...
In my younger days I did a major renovation to a 1912 house in Colorado (roof rafters, 400 cinder blocks into the foundation, all the electric and...
We replaced shingle siding on the driveway side of the house in 2009, and have stained it twice since then. It gets full sun, and was in need of a...
Yup, I’m just scratching the surface here.
Wife decided to replace the storm door with a marketplace find Andersen with self storing screen. Of course the doorway exterior trim is...
[ATTACH] We believe the red/pinkish color is original 1798 vintage. There are faint remnants of stenciling showing along the top and around the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Note the years of wear, and the worn repair. I went right over all of this. Those narrow floorboards are a sign of an...
A bit of decay by the entry. We’ve had plywood over the floorboards here for years. They notched the floor joists for the heating duct, and the...
Old paneling, cabinets, and ductwork torn out (I had disconnected the duct years ago). [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I popped some 1970’s paneling off this wall thinking I would run a phone wire and electrical behind and sheet rock over it. Guess not - you can...
Lots of projects underway. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Things have really changed along I-91 in the days since you first posted. Looks like we will have some nice colors.
Not much color showing along the CT River valley yet, but it is coming. We’ve had one morning at 38 degrees and several in the low 40’s. Where...
Time to be visiting your favorite hawk migration site. HawkCount We frequent Putney Mtn, and prefer to go on a blue-sky day following a couple of...
Having had a relative try and not succeed at suicide, this hits hard. There are others here who have lost close relatives - a survivor of suicide,...
Yes, very sad. Where are you seeing it? (I’m a Maine expatriate) Western Maine to me is at least above Rt 25, even though areas below that are...
