My wife and I recently purchased a new fire pit and we’ve been having and almost nightly habit of collecting deadwood around our house and lot and having a nice warm fire to sit by while the spring nights are still cold. Since tonight is Friday I decided to pull out a cigar. Tonight’s choice is a Cohiba maduro number five. It’s not a very large cigar. It’s the type of cigar you would have when you realize you only have 20 minutes to enjoy it. It’s the perfect size for that. It is a good cigar, but I have a hard time calling it a great cigar. Also the…
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Picked up some Silver Laced Wyandotte chickens at my local hardware store. You just KNOW your not living in the city when your local mom and pop hardware store is selling chickens! They are growing fast too. Since the photo, I already have them in a larger box and you can see their feathers coming in nicely now. Here’s why they’re supposed to look like fully grown: I was reading up on them: The Wyandotte is a truly American breed, originally named after a native American tribe called the ‘Wendat’. The name was changed by settlers in the 19th Century. The very first Wyandotte was a Silver laced, bred in…
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Just sitting back, enjoying a Cohiba Maduro Number 5. You? Been having nightly fires out back. I love spring.
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It’s that time of year again! Time to get the Yacht Club ready for a new season of sailing and racing. As you can see, the water level is so high right now that the dock goes up! Need to get my boat registered and prepped, mooring ball needs to be placed and boat put in the water.
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Part 1? Oh, I’ll get to that… So I prepped the site last year to get it ready for a brick walkway. I have access to this “old” brick and it looks great against my white house. I also want to make a patio off to the right of the walk way. Since the grass area slopes down I dug out and down the walkway so I could make it more even – and less work in the long run for me. I used these boards as gauges when building the walkway and they work out great: Got it all done in a day I made a few alignment adjustments…
