Baby Pen

Adam built this pen for Becca to keep her contained while I run in the mornings.  The other options were a pack ‘n play (which seemed cruelly small) and one of the many plastic baby fences out there (from which we figured Becca would be able to escape).  Now Becca has a ~6′ x 7′ [...]

Stack of Floor

This big plie of 3″ oak will someday (soon, hopefully) be the floor in the new room.  I really like wood floors.  I really didn’t like carrying all of this upstairs.
On an equally exciting note, I bought this fine (Porter Cable 690) router from a guy on Craigslist–$40, heckuva deal compared to a new one [...]

Interesting Pictures

Just a handful of interesting pictures (not necessarily good, mind you)…

Amateur Cabinetry

For the last year or so, I’ve had a big piece of oak in the garage to use for this project.  This cabinet (at Jen’s parents’ house) used to have retractable doors and was designed to hold a 27″ tube TV.  The old tube TV died a while ago and was replaced with a 32″ [...]

Vacation Fun

This picture pretty well shows what I’ll be doing during all of my weekends and vacation days this summer…expanding a closet into the attic and replacing essentially every door in the house.  Eighteen 16′ Douglas Fir 2×10s that will be sistered to the existing 2×6s in the attic next to the upstairs bedroom (and above [...]

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