…I am learning it means they are up to no good. Bella was sitting right next to her mamma.
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New Book Shelf Shelves
A long time ago, I had made some book shelf shelves out of cardboard so I could see more books on a shelf than normal. Today, I was cleaning up the garage and found some scrap wood so I made some more out of wood this time. No lights on this batch, but that can …
The Feburary 2011 Blizzard
Hopefully it will prove to be ‘the’ blizzard. We just had the first blizzard in the new house. It was an experience! We stayed warm, eating freshly picked lettuce from my basement aquaponics system – can’t beat that, eh? Tuesday afternoon, I went home from work a couple of hours early. I cleared the 3 …
Baby gate door for the baby’s room
I picked up a baby gate this morning on freecycle. It’s a weird cloth one like I’ve not seen before. The prior owners evidently used it to keep dogs where they belong so as soon as I got it home the thing got disassembled and the cloth got tossed into the washer. I took this …
Installing a baby gate for the front entry
Today I installed the baby gate on the front entry as a half-door. This gate is an expansion gate designed to span a door way. This won’t quite work for the front entryway. The trim buggers stuff on on one end, and the whole thing can’t clamp down tight enough to hold it in place …
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