I decided that the swamp cooler would be too hard to explain and too personal for the new owners of the Great Dale, so I decided to remove it. Lina happened to pull out the crappy humidifier around the same time. As I was dreading listening to the noise from it, I realized … [Read more...] about Swamp Cooler to Humidifier Conversion
Projects
The Anova Precision Oven Has a New Home
I bought this fancy oven for the Airstream and because I wanted to try it out. Turns out that it is too big for the Airstream and Lina hates looking at it; so I had to relocate it to the garage, which meant running some conduit and adding a new circuit to the garage panel. … [Read more...] about The Anova Precision Oven Has a New Home
Lina’s Christmas Wet-Bar Comes in August
I gave Lina a bar sink for Christmas with plans to build a bar similar to her existing one. So I drew up some plans in Fusion 360: Then we built some cardboard cutouts to see how it would actually look in the space: Now I needed some tools to actually do fine … [Read more...] about Lina’s Christmas Wet-Bar Comes in August
Recycled Turf Installed Under the Airstream RV Port
The floor of the Airstream RV port was the cheapest roadfill that they could find when I had the pad leveled. We are planning on hosting 50 people under it during Porkapalooza and thought it would be nice with a better floor. But it turned out even the cheap fake turf … [Read more...] about Recycled Turf Installed Under the Airstream RV Port
Palapa 2.0
We've had this old Big Lots gazebo for years and years. When we first put the pool under, Roger had a great idea when he suggested we tiki-fy it with some thatch. The roof was on it's last legs, so we decided to finally bite the bullet and make a thatch roof for it as well. … [Read more...] about Palapa 2.0