April After our morel hunting adventure, we ended up making an offer on the house. They accepted our offer and we were set to move in when we got back from Puerto Vallarta. May We moved our belongings over a week. Avery used 5 Amazon/Cisco equipment boxes and filled and […]
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Backyard Chickens
Backyard chickens We live in a small house with just a patio backyard, so it never felt like an option to keep chickens until we move to a larger house. But after months of pining, Morgan finally said, “lets get the chickens”. I did a lot of research on which […]
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Building a fold-down garage work bench
Orchid in Bloom
Orchid Update
Since my last post, I have noticed differences between my 3 locations. The bathroom appears unsuitable for orchids. I think that there is not sufficient light from the window. The desk is the second best location. Orchids are growing roots and leaves- and those in bloom stay in bloom. Downstairs […]
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Indirect light in the afternoon, humidity from the shower Closeups: Comments: The white orchid was one of my first orchids and suffered some serious neglect. After finally dropping all of its flowers, it has grown an additional leaf. Now that I am trying to take better care of it, I […]
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Hanging up Morgan’s Christmas present! We wanted to mount the hangboard on plywood and then have some extra T-nuts for random holds. Since the T-nuts need some space on the back, we added some 2x4s behind the plywood.
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First Christmas tree in the new house!
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