Originally posted on 2021-03-28 Obviously, we need to work right now, but this week it caused problems with getting things done. All weekend the weather has been cold and wet, making it very unpleasant to work in. This means we haven’t since we are not on a tight deadline for anything at the moment, butContinue reading “The Problem With Working”
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Now Is Not The Time To Lose One’s Roof
Originally posted on 2021-03-21 Continuing plan B for moving the garage. Spring is here after a basically non-existent winter. Last week we took the singles off the roof. This week we got those taken to the dump right away, cleaned up some rocks that were in our way, and took off the roof sheeting. NextContinue reading “Now Is Not The Time To Lose One’s Roof”
On To Plan B
Originally posted on 2021-03-14 After all that time and effort to make the ice rink, Mother Nature decided that was a no-go. Things were going well after waiting so long for it to be cold enough for a long enough period. The rink was built and we spent the last weekend in February moving theContinue reading “On To Plan B”
Water, Water, Everywhere
Originally posted on 2021-02-14 Building an ice rink of sorts to move the garage over to the shop is what’s on the agenda right now. As previously mentioned, in order to move the garage over to the shop we plan to flood the area between the two and push the garage over the ice. AfterContinue reading “Water, Water, Everywhere”
It’s Magic!
Originally posted on 2021-01-31 The bin and all its contents disappeared! Obviously, it’s not really magic and it didn’t actually just disappear as we were home when they came and picked it up. In fact, we were still tossing in some last-minute items when they arrived. The bin was mostly full, but we reached aContinue reading “It’s Magic!”
Learning From What We’ve Done
Originally posted on 2021-01-24 Now that we’ve torn down the first part of the house and are working on cleanup we’ve decided that we’re going to be tearing down the other part of the house a little differently. We had thought that using the tractor to tear down the house was a really good ideaContinue reading “Learning From What We’ve Done”
Everything’s Temporary
Originally posted on 2021-01-17 Yet we still need to make it work. Knowing it’s temporary doesn’t mean we can make do with things that don’t work at all. The first thing that wasn’t working was the setup we had for all three of us being at home for the COVID crisis and the little oneContinue reading “Everything’s Temporary”
Our Current Living Situation
Originally posted on 2021-01-03 We hope everyone had a great holiday season and that 2021 is going well so far. Took a bit of a break for the holidays and because all we’ve really been doing is cleaning up the house followed by more cleaning up of the house. We are still living on-site, inContinue reading “Our Current Living Situation”
Clean up, Clean up!
Originally posted on 2020-12-06 Now that the house is partially down we need to get the debris out of the way so we can tear down more. Friday we had a very large bin delivered to our house so this weekend was spent clearing out the part of the house we’ve torn down. It wasContinue reading “Clean up, Clean up!”
Racing Against Winter, Again
Originally posted on 2020-11-29 Delay in getting permits then being sick has put us behind, but there are some things that needed to be done before the snow flies. As mentioned last week, we started to demolish the house. This week we were busy trying to completely detach parts from the part of that houseContinue reading “Racing Against Winter, Again”
Huron The Lake 