Just last night, I finished taping the good majority of the drywall joints in the log cabin room. I say majority because I still have to tackle the seams around where the cross beams meet the drywall. There are 30 seams there, so that will take a little while. This first step in adding joint […]

It’s been an exciting past two days. A few weeks ago, the heat of summer broke and I got up off my duff to begin working on the house once again. The first project was to finish the drywalling in the log cabin room. This is something that has taken me almost two and a […]

There are two different types of people in this world; squirrels and grasshoppers. I happen to be a squirrel. I like to store things. Things that I consider an investment into the comfort of my future. At times, I’ve obsessed about this future a bit too much, but I think I’ve finally hit the sweet […]

About a year ago, I picked up a roll of fiberglass screen from the hardware store. At this point in my life, I have no idea why I did that. What I do know is that the roll of screen has been sitting in the corner of our log cabin room since the day of […]

When we arrived in Maine almost three years ago, we brought with us a nice Stihl chainsaw. A long time ago, I paid around $300 for it. I can remember the day I bought it. I picked it up from a local dealer in New York one morning and by that evening, in the rain, […]

Yesterday was one of those days. I felt like I won. The stars were aligned and everything that could have gone right, did. Please let me explain. Laura and I have been wanted to walk on a new (to us) rail trail down in Farmington for a while. The parking for the trail sits next […]

I got this idea yesterday. Since I recently picked up a load of composted horse manure (that has no smell) over at the farm, why not try try to grow some chard indoors again? It’s the middle of October and my chard is still going strong outside, but I’m not sure how long that’s going […]

The entire goal of yesterday’s excursion was to shovel a load of horse manure into my truck and bring it back to the house to dump in our new raised garden beds. While the primary mission was accomplished, our secondary mission of petting and feeding the horses across the street somehow elbowed its way into […]

Well, this year’s gardening season was a complete success. I set up three raised beds and we grew cherry, plum and big boy tomatoes, green beans, chard, kale and lettuce. I, never in my life, thought we could get so much food from three small locations. I believe the first vegetable we began eating was […]

I’d say we’re ready for winter. We’ve been squirreling away since April and, if I don’t say so myself, we’ve done a damn good job. I remember last year – I went a little nuts scouring the entire property for every little bit of wood, whether it be dead or alive. What I ended up […]