April 1st, 2010
We have an integrated laundry drawer in the bathroom:
Unfortunately, after Mechel left the bathroom and closed the bathroom door, the drawer slid open, which blocked the bathroom door. We couldn’t get in to the bathroom!
Thankfully, there’s a coat closet that shares a wall with the bathroom wall:
May 24th, 2009
To ease entry into the pool, I added a bit on to one of the landings:
Just like that!
May 3rd, 2009
I brought home 1 yard of compost, and we spread it out in the garden with the Belsky children and tilled it in.
May 15th, 2005
Today I trimmed the mass o’ trees in the backyard such that the trunks are visible. Before, the trunks were surrounded by a ten-foot radius of vegetative mess. Now, it looks like this:
Now we can plant that area along with the rest of the yard. Maybe some woodchips around the base…..
January 2nd, 2005
Lots of little stuff this weekend (I was off on Friday).
Last week, our friends the Bahns, from Minneapolis, stayed with us for Shabbos. The Bahns had us over almost every Shabbos when we lived in St. Louis Park during my second year of Graduate School:
When they walked up our driveway, they saw a kid [...]
December 27th, 2004
This past weekend (I had Friday off) I installed one of those dual-head floodlights on the back of our garage. Last week, as we were leaving to go out to dinner, Tricia spotted some people in our backyard, but it was too dark to make anything out, so we decided to add some lighting.
I [...]
November 28th, 2004
I had a 4 day weekend, so I go quite a bit done around the house, including restoring electricity to the Garage. We had friends over for our annual Thanksgiving-on-Shabbos meal, which was very nice.
Today we had some pretty nasty weather, but last Sunday was nice and I took another ride to Stony Point. [...]
October 31st, 2004
Last Sunday, I built this fort that we got from a famliy through Freecycle. It took a few hours to assemble, but at least we put it together during the day (when I took it apart at the “donor family”’s house, it was at night after work). We added some additional railings, a [...]
September 12th, 2004
Last Sunday I cleaned up the garage, and put everything in it’s place. Trish pulled a 4×8 piece of pegboard out of one of the sheds, and I mounted it in the garage and hung all my tools on it. We set up our new drill press and compound miter saw.
Today I finished [...]