Home Repair

Posted 31 weeks 6 days ago.
Home Repair
How I built our Homemade Catio (Cat Patio)

I wish I could write a coherent enough post on "How to build a Catio." but for now I'll try to mash out the challenges I had building this thing. This was definitely a windmill that Don Quixote had to attack over the course of a year.

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Posted 2 years 6 weeks ago.
Home Repair
Sift-O-Matic 58EZ-300 Rock Separation Machine

As my mind comes back online after 4 months of home improvement projects, I have a little time to post some of the contraptions I've built.

We have a great deal of rocks in our yard, probably dinosaur droppings from long ago. Most people go to the store and buy some fresh soil in a bag for gardening, but I was determined to reuse what I had on site.

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Posted 2 years 8 weeks ago.
Home Repair
Massive priority shift: Buying a home makes most social networking meaningless

The year 2009 was the huge push for social networks. Like most people, I joined more and more like there was no tomorrow.

My wife and I bought an old 1950's home towards the end of the year and something happened overnight. The meaningless vain dribble and regurgitation of Twitter was all of a sudden pushed away so I could crawl under a basement and apply PVC glue to white sewer pipe.

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