Projects

The herb hydroponic system we use is working pretty well, so I decided to see if I could grow some lettuce all year round.  The only room for such a monster is in the spare room, which wouldn't leave room for guests. So I built a shelf to hold both units. I haven;t brought … [Read more...] about Hydroponic Shelf

The Subaru headlights were starting to become useless because the plastic turned foggy.  I tried one of those "renew' kits that did absolutely nothing to help the issue. It turns out you can't just buy the lenses, you have to buy the entire assembly at $300 a pop for each … [Read more...] about New Subaru Headlights

I need room for my new sewing machine and Lina controls the basement. The spare bedroom is really just a storage room most of the time, so it was time to get that space back. I bought the plans for this cheap and dirt murphy bed that uses construction grade wood.  After … [Read more...] about Murphy Bed for the Spare Room

The 1st revision of the swamp cooler looked like this and its description can be found at http://greatdalehousecar.com/great-dale-swamp-cooler/. Then I added some vent hose to help direct the cooling where we wanted it. Everyone made fun of it, so I switched to one … [Read more...] about Great Dale Swamp Cooler

Lina and Rene made some upgrades to the waterfall. Here is Revision 1.0 And here's revision 2: It's still not done, next year we're redoing the pool at the bottom of the waterfall so that it's bigger, matches the rest of the waterfall, and is made of concrete too. I … [Read more...] about Waterfall 2018