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New Web host
Please bear with me. I am migrating to a new web host tonight. The site may be down temporary while this happens. I may also need to copy some files from the old host to the new host (or from backups).
Re-Dying my 10 year old sun-bleached jacket.
I needed to dye a tan zipper black to match a black pair of pants that the zipper slide split on. I cut the zipper out of the pants this weekend. now, to sew the new zipper in. I had found the zipper in a collection of old zippers I had gotten via FreeCycle. The …
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Bad storms in Elgin
It looks like I will need to finish my Kayak in a hurry! These two pictures where taken about 8 minutes apart. Water coming up fast! From a different window. That water is about 3-4 feet deep at the far end I think. A good amount of water sitting there.
45 gallon aquarium rebuild
A good friend of mine gave me a couple of larger fish tanks. The one I have had up and running for a while now. The other didn’t make the move from his place to mine. It sprung a leak. It held water when he had it, but leaked when i tried to fill it …