[ A stack of roof trusses — two by six boards in an arch shape, held together by plywood braces at the corners — stands in the yard next to the house. Another truss sits alone next to them. Behind the stack is a big black dog. ] I was, I gotta admit, worried about […]
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is meatloafed up, looking straight towards the camera, face framed between two vertical two by fours. A pair of fingers obscure the shot to the top left and to the right. ] I was doing so well with blogging! & then we got enough money to buy the last of
this time, for sure Read More »
[ The back of a black pickup truck, which has a lot of bags of insulation in it. One bag spans the entire width of the inside of the bed, something like four feet. A bumper sticker on the tailgate reads “Frankly, it’s a truck”. ] Also known as ‘we finally had the money to
SPOON: a Long and Valiant Quest to Get some Damn Insulation Read More »
[ A plywood-covered wood foundation, covered in turn with an outdoor carpet in cream and green, holds up two walls, one to the left, one on the far side of the floor. Each wall bears a single window. A pair of matching doors leans against the side wall. ] I’ve been posting about stuff I
SPOON: where it stands Read More »
[ A stainless steel kitchen sink sits upside down on top of a white folding table. The table also holds a variety of tools and a red cardboard box labeled ‘Milwaukee’. ] One of the hardest parts of cooking & eating when you’re living rough is cleaning dishes. You can eat with disposable stuff —
SPOON: kitchen sink! Read More »
[ A corner next to the bed platform in Tyrava; it has a cabinet built into it, made from old weathered pallet wood. ] Lots of progress to post about! In between working on a 12×16 cabin for me & the business, I’ve been making improvements to Tyrava. Mostly storage; one of the big problems
[A sturdy set of shelves, solidly made from old, weathered wood. They’re an extension to the tool shelves I made last month. They’re about three feet wide, a foot and a half deep, and seven feet tall, and already about half full of Stuff.] Lotta projects getting done, not so many pictures taken. Gonna work
SPOON: random catchup things Read More »
[There’s a hole cut in the side of Borgia, a mustard yellow cargo container. It’s roughly the size and shape of a doorway, and, in fact, there’s a door frame in it, made from weathered old wood. Leaning against the wall next to the doorway is a slab of metal, coincidentally the precise same size.]
SPOON: Borgia: the actual, you know, DOOR part Read More »
[A vintage, eight-paned window, the frame painted green, leans against a pallet; behind it is an equally vintage window screen the same size.] Also a window, but that’s going in later.
SPOON: Borgia gets a door Read More »
[Seen across a mostly-barren field, a big grey pickup truck is towing a really big trailer with a forty foot long, mustard yellow container on it.] … okay, it actually showed up weeks ago, but I’ve been SO BUSY just trying to 1) build a house, 2) shove stuff into the container in a way
SPOON: finally a container! Read More »
0