Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
As winter descends on Wisconsin, it was fun to take the new truck out in the first snow of the season! We’ll all be sick of the snow soon enough, but at least for a day it was nice. As anticipated, the truck handled everything really well and actually performed better than the old truck … Continue reading Truck Weather
Last weekend I finally upgraded my old Super Duty (a 2012 F250 Lariat) to a new F20 Lariat, this time with the 6.7 liter PowerStroke diesel engine instead of the gas engine that I’d previously had. It’s pretty astonishing how much Ford has improved the interior quality on the new trucks, with Mercedes caliber wood … Continue reading New Truck
A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded from my old Flying Spur to the new Flying Spur. It’s an incredible car, and has so many small improvements over the old car in terms of interior polish, driving dynamics, and technology. The garage is looking mighty nice these days! Continue reading New Bentley
When I was doing various spring cleanup tasks around the land, I noticed that the roof of the woodshed I built on the back corner of the land had collapsed over the winter. It’s not a complex structure, just essentially a cube made from treated lumber that holds logs in place. The roof is important … Continue reading Woodshed Roof Replacement
It was a pretty mild winter in Wisconsin through Christmas, but January and February brought a ton of snow. I don’t usually post about weather on this blog unless it’s flooding impacting the lake house or things of that nature, but I took a photo the other day of snow piled almost as high as … Continue reading Range Rover High Snow
This morning, the Home Depot delivery crews showed up to my house with four pallets of hardwood flooring, which will be installed later in August. It’s been a challenge to find an installer since most of the Crew2 installers in Madison are individuals, and this is the sort of job that will take a crew … Continue reading Hardwood Floor Delivery
Last week, I took the Bentley into the Radio Doctor and they completed all of the infotainment and audio upgrades. The result is amazing! The new rig feels like an original part of the car, and the new deck is a massive improvement over the stock unit. Continue reading Bentley Audio Complete
Over the Fourth of July weekend, I was finally able to get the boat in the water! The prior week, the owner of the Bayview Boat Club was able to get a barge crew to install the lift in the water, after Deano Docks was unable or unwilling to. It took a little bit of … Continue reading Boat Lift Setup
After a second consecutive year of terrible weather and flooding on the Wisconsin River during the month of June, I made a somewhat drastic decision: I bought a slip at the Bayview Boat Club in Tipperary Bay on Lake Wisconsin, which is a much more stable part of the lake. I’m maintaining by dock at … Continue reading Bayview Boat Club
I had posted about this project last summer, but put it on hold amongst other distractions. This past week, I finally decided to pull the trigger on getting the Bentley’s infotainment system upgraded. Here is roughly what the finished product will look like: I went with a largely button-less JVC head unit, the KW-M75BT, which … Continue reading Bentley AV Update
