My friend Garrick recently posted about an ergonomic improvement to his workspace. He got a monitor arm to get his display up where it worked better for him. Recently I’ve felt a lot of back fatigue and aching and I feel a lot better when I sit up straight. My monitor is …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Improved Workspace with Monitor ArmLast year we had some hardscaping done in our backyard. We created a little planting area next to the garage. This year I’d like to plant it but am not sure what to plant. The area is almost always in the shade, so we need plants that do well with low light. We only want native …
Keep reading · 1 minute: What plants for our backyard?Our driveway provides almost no opportunity for me to get snow out of the way. I blow a lot of it over the fence into the backyard, but also blow a lot of it against my neighbors garage. There is a limit to how high you can go though. I’ve debated next fall creating a series of …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Driveway AvalancheWhen I got my Big Green Egg I got the large table to go with it. It seemed okay, not great. I knew I wanted to have a good work surface for my Egg and I didn’t think the simple fold out “wing” tables would work at all. I know a lot of Eggheads make their own tables. There are …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: Double Big Green Egg TableSome people in our neighborhood build a huge snowman in the park every winter. Mazie stood next to it for scale. The nose is a traffic cone. Awesome! You can see this for yourself if you drive down Penn Ave at night and look east as you cross over Minnehaha Creek. They light it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Huge SnowmanLast year I decided I had enough of our old tree stand and got rid of it. We decided to pick up our Christmas tree after Thanksgiving but I needed to get a new tree stand. We made a quick stop at Settergren’s Ace Hardware and I asked the guys there what they recommended. The guy …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Brilliant: Swivel Tree StandReally pleased with how our landscaping project came out. Functional, efficient and relaxing.
Guys doing our landscaping just fired up the stone cutter at 7:45am. Good morning neighbors! 😬
We are redoing a lot of the outdoor space in the backyard of our new house. We’ve wanted to put in a swing set for Mazie but it was a real challenge to find something that would fit in our standard city lot. It took a lot of creative thinking but we finally figured out a way to …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Swing Set on the Way!Why isn’t it common to have a tunnel from your detached garage to the basement of your house?
