Why To Own a Super Duty
I had to transport a palette of 60 bags of waterlogged bark the other day, which the truck made easy work of after we forklifted the bark right into the bed of the truck: Continue reading Why To Own a Super Duty
Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
I had to transport a palette of 60 bags of waterlogged bark the other day, which the truck made easy work of after we forklifted the bark right into the bed of the truck: Continue reading Why To Own a Super Duty
This weekend, aside from enjoying an Arsenal FA Cup semifinal win over Man City, I finished my spring planting by planting roughly a dozen bushes and shrubs in both the front and back yards around my house. I planted primarily arbor vida and junipers, since the evergreen bushes continue to look good in the winter. … Continue reading More Spring Planting
I took a break from landscaping work a couple of days ago to do some electrical work in one of my house’s bathrooms, which is theoretically a guest bathroom but is primarily used by the cats. When I was doing that, I noticed that the toilet’s water intake regulator was leaking, causing the toilet to … Continue reading Toilet Repair
Last year, I cleared a bunch of dead trees from my front yard. I used my truck to rip the trees out of the ground, which cleanly removed virtually all of them. However, it left 5-6 stumps still in the ground from cases where the tree ripped in half instead of fully coming out of … Continue reading Grinding Stumps
As part of my spring landscaping work first described in this post, I’ve added updated lighting, new furniture, and planters full of flowers to the front porch of my house, which has created a nice outdoor living room space on the front porch and made the walk up to the front door of the house … Continue reading Updated Front Porch
How many do you have? Even with apps that act as multi-brand hubs, I’ve still ended up with so many: Continue reading So Many Home Automation Apps
As the weather has continued to warm, I have started making small landscaping and other exterior improvements, as well as power washing the garage and the front porch. First, I replaced the arbor vidae on the Range Trail side of the wall, since the previous ones had died over the winter: After that, I planted … Continue reading Spring Landscaping
The last previous project post that I’m planning on writing for awhile covers one of the first, and still most ambitious, projects that I took on at my current house (the basement remodel at my first house could be a series for another day). This project involved the construction of a 100 yard long wall … Continue reading Wall and Gate
Before really launching into my spring and summer projects, I spent some time reorganizing my garage cabinets. I’ve accumulated a lot of tools, building materials, and other things over years of projects. The end result is much more organized than before: Continue reading Spring Cleaning