House and Home
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New Year, New Home Technology, Part 1
Hi. It’s a new year, and I have an awful lot of things I want to say about an awful lot of things, but I figured I would start on the relatively non-controversial…
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The Point
Life moves according to some sort of plan. Then suddenly it doesn’t. Everything changes at one single point in time. I bet that everybody who reads this blog already knows about what happened…
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Sometimes It Is Important to Listen to Kitty
Ah, here it is, an increasingly rare post from Jonathan on the blog! Before we leave for a somewhat longer journey, we needed a test run with our kayaks on the new Yakima…
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Sauer Castle Edition)
This is a short story about why humans can’t have nice things. This story takes place in Kansas City, Kansas. In a mansion built right after the Civil War. A mansion that…
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What Really Happens on Christmas Morning
A few years ago, in the very, very early part of Christmas morning, Jonathan and I woke up to the sound of breaking glass. “SMASH!” Well, nobody wants to wake up to the…
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The Good Old Days
For the first part of my life, my family lived in an old house in a very small town in Central Pennsylvania. My parents heated the house using a wood burning stove. My…
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Did You Hear About St. Basil’s?
St. Basil (or Saint Basil) Catholic Parish in Carrick was all over the Pittsburgh news last month. They shut down their church festival – their big fundraiser – for safety reasons (social media…
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Neat Old Companies and Neat Old Tools
Several years ago, I was in the position of needing a new saw blade for my tablesaw. The existing blade I was using had done a lot of work with some tough white…
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The Cherry Blanket Chest (a.k.a. Blanket Chest #2)
Sometimes in the shop, things get a little out of order. You might recall that I had a blog entry posted in June about Blanket Chest #1, a dense, heavy affair made almost…
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Elegy to My Old Front Porch, c1930 – 2014
I am getting a new front porch for my birthday this year. Jonthan and I planned and saved for this for years. We tweaked some of our career goals for this. We can’t wait…