Category: Construction type stuff

The boys and I built a new 12×12 deck for Kate’s mom

This is magical – everyone should get one!

Playing with the welders.

Up until now, I had a poor man’s sprinkler system.  Basically a bunch of hoses running under hte deck and around the hose on a timer hooked to the spicket.  I’m finally doing a real one, with in the ground heads.    ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

I needed something so I can grill and smoke in shitty weather.     ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

So, I saw this online and decided, why the f*ck not.  It uses the amazon voice service, (Alexa) to respond to voice commands.  Stuff:  Glass, mirror tint,  24″ TV, speaker, mic, and a raspberry Pi.   ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

Benny and Marrie decided they wanted a deck on the back of the house….  

We have/had 2 trees in the backyard.  A huge, gorgeous oak, and a huge maple (I hate the maple).  We had a company take the tree down and leave it for me to cut up  for firewood.  I took a bungie cord and asked them to leave the bottom 4 or so feet as is. …