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Deck in progress…

by @ Wednesday, September 13th, 2006. Filed under house stuff

I have been wanting a deck on the back of the house now for about 5 years and have been actually in a position[1] to build one but putting it off for one busy reason or another for 2 years. I finally realized that I wasn’t going to be be able to build it myself […]

Garage electrical pictures…

by @ Saturday, September 2nd, 2006. Filed under house stuff

Finally pics from the work on did on the garage lights that was mentioned in this blog entry http://blog.joeware.net/2006/08/10/517/   Before:   After: Rating 3.00 out of 5

Do you have 10+ wild Acres in Macomb or Oakland County?

by @ Thursday, August 10th, 2006. Filed under house stuff

If you have 10 or more acres in Macomb or Oakland county (SE Michigan) that has trees and grass and maybe a stream or a pond drop me an email with info on the location and what you want for it. I am poking around but is seems hard to find a comprehensive list. I […]

Garage electrical that’ll kill ya.

by @ Thursday, August 10th, 2006. Filed under house stuff

The task for the last couple of nights was to change out the crappy looking fake gold old fashioned “porch lights” on either side of the large garage door the cars go through (contrasted with the small side garage door that persons go through). I had some nice newer motion sensor 100 watt halogen light fixtures that I wanted […]

20 yards of dirt later…

by @ Thursday, June 22nd, 2006. Filed under house stuff

So the 10 yards of dirt I had previously gotten turned into 20 yards of dirt and when it was all said and done i probably could have used yet another 20 yards. After using shovels and wheelbarrows for a couple of yards I said this isn’t going to work and ran down and rented […]

The end is nigh.

by @ Saturday, April 1st, 2006. Filed under general, house stuff, quotes, rants, recipes, tech, updates

As I spin down from yet another meaningless hectic month I have come to the conclusion that this simple country red-neck hick boy[1] has had enough. As much fun as it is to run around with your hair on fire and having no time to spend on exactly what you want to spend it on […]

Any building inspectors or construction experts out there?

by @ Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Filed under house stuff

Previously I mentioned I was looking at the Deltech homes which are these prefab Round houses. I got their literature and a video from them and am even more interested. The more I think about it though, the more I think I want to move most of the house underground to take advantage of the […]

Round Houses

by @ Saturday, November 26th, 2005. Filed under house stuff

I have been thinking a lot about what my next house should look like as well as where it should be, etc… My main requirements are lots of space, I can’t actually see (nor hear) a neighbor, high speed / broadband (preferably 4Mbs+), natural gas (but also have wood burning capability), “on the grid” (but […]

Backyard

by @ Thursday, November 17th, 2005. Filed under house stuff

And here is the view of the house after its facelift from the backyard. Yeah, not much you can see from there. I love my backyard. The pile of concrete blocks is rearranged when I need a fire pit. Upright they are easier to mow around. Oh yeah, note I added a new category for […]

Are you rebuilding your house?

by @ Thursday, November 17th, 2005. Filed under house stuff

After some of the previous blog entries and comments I have also gotten some offline comments basically saying “Are you rebuilding your house?”. Well kind of, yeah, I have been. I will try to post some pics occasionally of some of the work. One of the larger transformations occurred when I had the peak of […]

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