Category: Our Humble O’Bode
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burn baby burn
I spent a big chunk of the day today burning piles of buckthorn and honeysuckle, both invasive species, which volunteers had been cut out of the wooded areas alongside the University Ridge segment of the Ice Age Trail about a year ago. These areas were so overgrown with buckthorn and honeysuckle that it was impossible Read.
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refinish
Our Little Red House was built in the 1950s. The kitchen cabinets are original. I want to replace the cabinets under the counter, but I want to keep the cabinets above the counter and over the range. I’ll have to refinish them if I keep them but I have no experience whatsoever refinishing woodwork like Read.
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hide-a-bed
Last night, Tim helped me move a sofa from the bedroom I use as my at-home office to the garage. There’s an awful lot going on in that sentence so let me break it down for you: Tim usually comes over every Saturday night for dinner and a game of Spirit Island. Chances are very Read.
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unhinged
I spent yesterday morning and all afternoon tearing the old doors off the garden shed, then rebuilding and rehanging new doors, with a lot of help from My Darling B, who volunteered her time to go to the lumber yard with me and also to hang the doors. I wish I had a better “before” Read.
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foundation
The shed is up on what I hope is a somewhat more secure foundation. There’s a heavy concrete block under each corner and in the middle of each side, and a thick piece of timber runs under frames along two of the outside walls and down the middle. I could have run timbers around all Read.
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jacked
My Darling B needed a garden shed for all her shovels and rakes (and implements of destruction) so we bought a kit to make one from a local hardware store and I put it together in the back yard about fifteen years ago. When we bought it, I asked the guy at the hardware store Read.
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Garage cleanup – spring 2023
I wish I had a “before” photo so you’d have some idea what kind of a mess I was facing when I started cleaning up the garage Sunday morning. After working in the garage on and off all winter, and more often in the last few months, there were scraps of wood piled up on Read.
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trimmed
The little maple tree out back was not so little so we had to cut it town. It started out as a helicopter that sprouted in what looked like a pretty good spot for a tree, so I put a cage around it to keep the bunnies away and remind me not to mow over Read.
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contradictory
I gave the bathroom a thorough cleaning yesterday morning. It really needed it. Cleaning the bathroom is one of those things that I utterly despise while I’m doing it, and yet somehow after it’s done I feel a rewarding sense of accomplishment. Also, I really like using a clean bathroom. However, I will dread the Read.
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frat party
As usual on Sunday morning, our kitchen looked like a bunch of frat boys had been up all night drinking and eating snacks while they did whatever frat boys do all night. In reality it was nothing like that. Tim comes over on Saturday afternoon for an early dinner and then we play a board Read.
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