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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 fingers, […]

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 the […]

Tagged as: gazebo, screen house

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Garden Report

10 May 2009

Happy Mother’s Day week­end. Gar­den­ing sea­son now begins in earnest in Puge­topo­lis.
We did our part to add to the may­hem.
Begin­ning with some addi­tions to the kitchen gar­den. A cou­ple of ser­rano chiles, four basils and an even dozen ran­dom let­tuce plants. If we cut only a cou­ple of sal­ads a week this will last most […]

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Signs of Spring. 3/$10

16 February 2009

From QFC this morning:

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II">Stenciling a Three Panel Screen, Part II

11 February 2009

More on the screen for Jim’s office.
Once the sten­cil had had chance to dry I took the fab­ric pan­els off the screen (yeay vel­cro.) I didn’t do any prep work on the fab­ric  -  poly(?) can­vas. The paint will stick well enough and I don’t expect to try to wash the pan­els. By the time […]

Tagged as: crows, screen

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Stenciling a Three Panel Screen

10 February 2009

In order to hide the backs of a num­ber of mon­i­tors and com­put­ers in Jim’s office we put up a cheap three panel screen.
It’s very bor­ing thing. But… the pan­els are white “can­vas” and that means they don’t have to stay bor­ing. So I finally found a sten­cil that I wanted to use in a […]

Tagged as: screen, stencil

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Purple is a Good Thing

9 February 2009

Took an uphol­stery class at Pacific Fab­rics over the week­end. I want to make new cush­ions for the porch fur­ni­ture.
The result of about 5 hours of work is this lovely and quite use­less cush­ion. I like the drip effect of the stripes and dots.
It’s not as hard as I thought but not easy either. Mostly I […]

Tagged as: color, sewing

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New Gallery Software

25 January 2009

I have added an instance of Zen Photo for Ms. Shoes.
The first album is a set of pho­tos that I took this morn­ing of birds vis­it­ing our bird feed­ers. (yes that is snow, again.)
Click on the pic­ture to go to the gallery!

Tagged as: birds, feeders, snow

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Garden Report — The Aftermath

10 January 2009

Now that most of the snow is melted it’s time to have a good look at the gar­den and assess the dam­ages.
There aren’t really any sur­prises. Most of the dam­age was done by the very cold tem­per­a­tures on Dec 19th (10.4F) and Dec 20th (4.1F)
Among the casu­al­ties:
I don’t know if the euphor­bia will recover. The jerusalem […]

Tagged as: butterfly bush, euphorbia, mint, sage

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