From the monthly archives:

June 2009

New Tools, Continuing Upholstry and No More Room

22 June 2009

I got tools from Rio Grande this after­noon. Clock­wise from the top. Ring man­drel — very pleased with the qual­ity and heft. Par­al­lel pli­ers — thank you Sarah L. for get­ting me addicted to those expen­sive lit­tle dears. Raw hide mal­let for bang­ing on metal. Ring clamp for hold­ing onto things and not sand­ing my […]

Tagged as: bench, parallel pliers, rawhide mallet, ring clamp, ring mandrel, snips, upholstery

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Garden Report

14 June 2009

The peonies are almost ready to bloom. How odd that I saw my sister’s peonies in full bloom in Pitts­burgh more than 2 weeks ago.

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Feeling Nesty — Part I

14 June 2009

Today we declared a scav­enger hunt day. We have a list of things we’d like to have for the house but haven’t found just the right one yet. We were wildly suc­cess­ful. Our last gazebo was destroyed by the snow last win­ter. We finally found a gazebo/screen house that was small enough for the spot between […]

Tagged as: gazebo, screen house

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Chicken Report

14 June 2009

Mz. Friz­zle and her brood of 10 are out and about every day now.

Tagged as: chickens

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Final

8 June 2009

Some inter­est­ing num­bers and ran­dom obser­va­tions: Total miles: 6804 Gal­lons of gas: 257 Aver­age price/gallon: $2.69 Aver­age MPG: 26.47 (i’m skep­ti­cal but con­sid­er­ing the cruise con­trol was in use for most of the non-photo-op dri­ving it could be pos­si­ble.) Hotels: 14 Pho­tographs: 3133 Spent on road food: $376.86 Blog Posts: 22 (not count­ing the chicken update) […]

Tagged as: statistics

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 25

7 June 2009

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 24

6 June 2009

Not so much a trip report as a weather report. There’s weather approach­ing from the north­west (hello canada, hello snow) and I’m head­ing, um, north­west. Some­where the snow and I are going to meet. I was just hop­ing to pick the spot. I chose Billings, MT. So off I went. I did stop in Malta, briefly. There […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 23

5 June 2009

From Minot, ND to Glas­gow, MT. Cool, over­cast. It didn’t actu­ally rain but it was very threat­en­ing. Hwy 2 is often an inter­est­ing road in that it varies between two-lane and newly divided four-lane. This occa­sion­ally leads to con­fus­ing lane strip­ing on the por­tion that used to be two-lane. I stopped at the Wal-Mart in […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 22

4 June 2009

Oh my, it’s a windy damn coun­try. Blow­ing hard enough that the upwind car door is almost too heavy to open. Yipes. I was plan­ning on two dams today but only made one. Saw a lot of other stuff instead. All along the roads there are trees planted as wind breaks and planted in between the […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 21

4 June 2009

Spent much of today vac­il­lat­ing between ‘I want to be home right now — how fast can i get there?’ and ‘the inter­state is killing me — how much extra time will it take?’ Some­where around Sergeant’s Bluff IA I had the motorists’ equiv­a­lent of a flash­back freak-out and took the first north bound turn off […]

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