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New Sink!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Finally replaced the horrible old sink in my bathroom. One of these days I’ll remember to take a “before” picture as well. The new sink is a good 5 inches wider, but not as deep, so the bathroom actually feels bigger with it.

Only bad thing was my old faucet (A Price-Pfister Portland) doesn’t fit. side note: Price-Pfister makes nice faucets. Their web site designer/maintainer should be shot. Their “product finder” doesn’t.

New Bathroom Sink

New Bathroom Sink (2nd view)

Goodbye stump, hello concrete!

Friday, March 20th, 2009

There once was a bad tree.It had to go. So I played arborist with a chainsaw, and there was nothing but a stump left.Bad Tree anyways - that stump was there for ages. It had chain link fence in it, so i couldn’t just use the chainsaw on it. im000609_2.jpg (seen here in a pic from 2007)Fast forward a couple years. I got the great idea to move the back fence in a bit, and carve out a place for the trash cans to sit where they would be on my property, but accessible to the trash men. How do you remove a stump? Kerosene. Charcoal briquettes, and scrap wood to burn as a fuel source.  img_0207.jpgimg_0208.jpgimg_0218.jpgimg_0220.jpgAfter a couple weeks of lighting everything on fire every night - the stump was gone. So I poured the concrete, laid the brick pavers on top - and voila! img_0221.jpgThe classiest trash can pad in the neighborhood.