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Brian Bilbrey November 30, 2014

Catching Up

The calendar is catching up to the weather, in fact. On Tuesday into Wednesday, we're due for "wintery mix," which sounds much nicer than it really is. But 30's and 40's for December are just fine. It's the teens and 20's that make us cranky, here in Chez Bilbrez. * * * I've got the week "off" - burning some unused hours before I lose them to policy, come the end of the calendar year. Primary focus: finish building Marcia's rolling cabinet, which is do-able, methinks. Here's the carcass, much progress: In the last two days, I've got finish on…

Brian Bilbrey November 23, 2014

Winter is ... What? Over 70 degrees tomorrow?

Yeah. This week we spent a significant amount of time at or below freezing, including a couple of mornings around 20°F. But according to the various forecasts, tomorrow it's supposed to get up to 73°F. But two days later we're back down to the deep freeze, with potential snow/sleet on Wednesday. Very weird. I spent most of this weekend working in the woodshop on drawers and carcass for a rolling storage cabinet for Marcia, to use in her quilting space: Most of today was spent laying out and pre-drilling holes for the drawer mounting hardware. Then I'll finish the drawer…

Brian Bilbrey June 1, 2014

Five Down, Seven To Go

Months, that is. The year, it flies by too quickly. We're approaching the heat and humidity of the year, sadly. The upside of the unpleasant months is fresh veggies out of the garden. Soon, soon: Things are going well ... I cleaned house yesterday. No, really. With a car wash mitt and a few buckets of soapy water, I cleaned everything I could reach on the front of the house. Doing it that way was a pain in the ass, and frankly exhausting, but the method did a much more consistent job of cleaning than using a pressure washer to…

Brian Bilbrey March 17, 2014

Dreaming of a White St. Paddy's Day

Echoes of Bing Crosby chasing around my head as I look outside: A downside is that there's a couple more inches of the stuff headed our way, so I'll be waiting to clear the driveway and sidewalks until mid-afternoon. And I'll just have to assume that the snow peas are happy as clams in a snow-covered planting bed. * * * Here's the laptop pedestal I built and finished over the weekend. It's designed to sit on top of a regular desk, to be a stylish standing desktop for laptop and mouse. It can also move down to floor level,…

Brian Bilbrey March 3, 2014

Pictures or It Didn't Happen

Some of you may not have heard Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra singing Pictures (or It Didn't Happen), off of the most excellent and awesome album, Theatre is Evil. I will say that, although I love this song, it isn't my favorite song off the album. But the song is appropriate for this post... So I got the first coat of spar urethane onto the birdhouse this morning: And Lexi continues to relax in one of her accustomed spots. I think that she's waiting for sun that isn't going to appear today: The snow continues to fall, we're…