Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Schoolhouse Electric just announced their new lighting catalog in an email I received recently. The catalog is chock full of eye candy, and really worth checking out. You can view the entire catalog online or request to have a printed version mailed to you, if you're of the clip-and-save persuasion.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
We may be far enough into 2010 for some people to have made and broken new resolutions, but I'm not yet through reflecting on 2009 and planning for the year ahead. Sure, I could beat myself up about the backlog of unfinished projects I'm carrying forward into the new year-- ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
My last post about getting insulation-ready prompted a question about the cost of insulation. But simply posting the price I paid isn't very useful to a reader. I wanted to offer a response in a way that got away from the specifics of my project and that could be useful ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Reality. We can waste a lot of time and energy trying to avoid it, but eventually, unfailingly, reality catches up with us.
So what's the reality that I've been trying to avoid? Simply this: my upstairs bedroom project will not be finished by the end of the summer if I insist ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
While searching for instructions on when to start my tomato seeds, I stumbled on a great garden planting chart from the University of Minnesota Extension Service. "Planting the Vegetable Garden" by Vincent Fritz features a chart of planting dates and spacing for popular garden vegetables, specifically written for Minnesota gardeners. ...
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