I’ve referenced our solar project on this site a couple of times, and this last week marked the most visible part of the project. The collectors were put up on the roof on Thursday. The collectors are mounted on the north side of the roof, but peeking over so they have a full …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Solar Project UpdateAbout three months ago I decided to have a new roof put on our house. We are in the process of putting solar heat on our house and our shingles needed replacement before we put the panels up. I contacted a couple of contractors and ultimately decided to go with Minnesota …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Roof ReplacementOur house has been a construction zone this last week, and will hopefully start to wind down after this next week. We scheduled a number of projects to occur right now. We are completing the 3rd phase of our landscaping project and they are installing a stone path with stairs in …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Construction ZoneA few months ago I bought the Roku M1000 MP3 player for Mazie’s room. I really liked it, even wrote on here about how great it was. Well, I liked it so much I decided to buy two more. Not the M1000, but the cheaper M500. Roku was running a sale, I think moving them out to make …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Music Everywhere!Sometimes I just feel like typing something on this here website. I guess that’s the advantage of being the site operator, author, editor, publisher and everything else. This has been a busy week. I’ve been completely absorbed with this project at work. We finally got it launched …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Just TypingI thought I had dodged this bullet, but this morning when I turned on my HD DirecTV TiVo I got “purple haze”. Although, this was different than I’d seen it before. Usually if I just hit the ratio button on the HR 10-250 it would correct after a couple of times, but this is …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Purple HDMI TiVoA few weeks ago we had some sod put down in our backyard. The first two weeks went as they should, I watered it everyday, all was great. I had even started to mow it. Then, the racoons came. These little buggers figured out they could get in the seams of the sod and roll it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Jamie v. RacoonsI spent a bit of time this weekend on my home network. I had a “security incident” about 10 days ago that I had to both clean-up and prevent from happening again. No damage of any significance was done. I had setout on segmenting my network and replacing my ZyWall with a …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Weekend GeekfestLast year we had the landscaping in front of our house redone completely. We used a small, native landscaping firm called Go Native. Native landscaping means that you only work with plants that are native to your area. The great thing about this, other than being ecologically …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Landscaping WondersThis is a rather pointless post but I wanted to share that I think Ihave found the best music for mowing the lawn, ever. Every weekend I have to plod outside and fire up the lawn mower. My iPod is a dear, dear friend during this one hour trek in endless circles around the lawn. I …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Mowing the Lawn