Sometime last this past spring we had an odd snow day where I took my old dog out for one last (most likely) hike in the snow. We took it real slow and the two miles took over an hour. Since then she has had surgery and gotten older. It snowed again here and I did not want to waste the opportunity. She loves the trail, she loves the walk, and even if her old bones were not willing to take her all the way, I was willing to carry her if needed. It was never needed. You can still see the shaved area from her spleen removal surgery. She…
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The construction of the 18 x 12 room started off quickly and continued onto Sunday. I added the shiplap onto the front of the wall and installed the door. Then I substantially cleaned up the place! You can also see in the above photo that I ran the electrical through the outlets, but do not have them hooked up yet. There will be two circuits in total. This way I can have the heater on one and the lights and filtration on the other. I originally was going to just keep the room raw, but now have talked myself into the more work of staining and polyurethane the walls and…
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With winter cold coming quick and my cigar out building not being big enough for the friends and neighbors that drop by for cigars once a week, it was time to build something bigger. I originally wanted a larger out building but that was going to take time and was going to be more than I really needed. I opted for using the upper part of my garage that was just storage. 12 x 36 feet in all. By partitioning it I could still keep some storage, and have a nice space I could enclose and heat to use as a cigar room. The cigar room itself would be 12…
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This year I was signed up to do a few 5k’s, but we signed up first and then found out the dates, times, and locations. Well, of course, each one would fall on a date when the local guys would get together. So I scratched on every race and really didn’t do much running at all. Jogging, yes. I did quite a few 5k trail runs on my own. My first no excuse run-a-virtual-5k came up. I ran it on the treadmill. Finishing time was: 30:26 I was hoping to break the 30 minute mark but kicked up the speed a minute or two too late to make up the…
