I took the opportunity of a lazy Sunday afternoon to test out the airbrush I bought. Unfortunately I don’t think the rate of paint delivery will be up to the task of painting fifty square feet of Lorax-Mural. The paint flows (while somewhat sporadically) at a steady dusting of color that would be [...]

While in Red Deer this weekend we picked up some great paint in our selected colours, as per the plan for the nursery. That the priming was already done helped, and we quickly tacked up a tape-line for the divider. I set to work last night, and managed to get both coats in [...]

If you are us, today is mostly notable as the anniversary of moving into our house. It’s two years today. I’m going to celebrate by splashing a big bucket of primer on the walls of the soon-to-be nursery later on this afternoon. And tradition (if you can call it that) dictates we [...]

… another project.
We commenced the countdown to baby-time officially this weekend by removing the computer and stuff from the office and beginning the purge of the room that will eventually become the nursery. Simply cleaning and sorting through the accumulated junk from our old “work space” is going to take some serious time, [...]

How does one spend Saturday evenings in the suburbs? One option is to lock yourself in the garage with five gallons of green fence stain and a diminishing stack of lumber, turn on the radio, and work until your arm goes numb. The benefit of that, of course, is that the fence is about [...]

Some may recall that late last fall I undertook to plant a dozen plus two fence posts around the perimeter of our property. Over the course of a couple weeks, clamshell hole-digger in hands, I undertook to dig a series of three-foot-deep holes, plant the posts, (with some help) cement them into place, and slap [...]

I could write a full blog entry, but it’s Sunday morning and I don’t feel like it. Instead, some updates to touch upon the various tidbits of excitement1 here.
:: on writing ::
Progressing at a different pace than I expected. I crossed the twenty-thousand word mark this morning with a burst of inspiration. [...]

Oddly enough, when we came home from our brief weekend travels, the next door neighbor’s contractors had installed a nice straight line of fence posts along one side of our property. If they hadn’t mashed clay all over a six-foot-wide strip of my lawn in the process, I’d be much happier.

On the bright side, [...]

One part of “installing” sod in one’s yard is the watering. Needless to say, less than 72 hours since this whole episode with the grass began (and yes, photos soon!) is that we need to stay relatively close to home to keep the water flowing. (Mind, that didn’t stop us from taking an [...]

I’ve been meaning to write something here, really, but the simple fact is that it’s been too darn nice out. I’d been writhing in mental agony if I was forced to sit in front of a computer for longer than I’m being paid to do so, when just a few feet away, out my [...]

I guess that means my warantee is up. Karin and I celebrated yesterday by ordering pizza and falling asleep in front of the television. That memorable date June 8, 2005 is when we took possession of our house and spent the day moving junk across the city. It was raining then, too, [...]

The city landscaping department is suddenly ahead of us… how does that work?
I’ve been meticulously arranging dirt and landscaping, building things in the yard, and suddenly: poof! One day there is sod in the boulevard in front of our house. A week ago (while I was hobbling around on a sprained ankle thanks [...]