With the cold weather of winter setting in I find myself not wanting to spend a full day out at the property. I do have a generator to run the heater and a propane heater as well. I don’t like the noise all day of them running. Today, I used my lunch break to drive … Continue reading “Front And Back Porch – 12/13/204”
We’ve started getting involved in the Mississippi River Water Trail. Today, they were hosting a sunset paddle leaving from Piasa harbor. I drove up from St. Louis with a canoe. I brought dinner as a surprise for Danelle. Unfortunately it was too much of a surprise. She was later than me and we didn’t have … Continue reading “Sunset Paddle – 8/21/2024”
My favorite boat dealer, Andrew of Some Beach Outfitters brought a NorthStar Landick 2 canoe out to the lake for me to demo. Its only the second one delivered to Missouri and I decided I wanted it before even paddling it. I brought out money to the lake. Danelle came with me as well and … Continue reading “Landick 2 – 8/20/2024”
With the new house being built (slowly), we need to start sprucing up our existing house. Years ago, we painted the kid’s bathroom with some discount paint. Well, you get what you pay for. The color is horrible. We’ve known it for years, but left it. I went out of town for the weekend and … Continue reading “Kid’s Bathroom Revival – 8/18/2024”
Year four of Muscle Monitoring. While things have changes, many have stayed the same. Many of the same faces and some new ones. The most interesting thing to me this time was a very large insect that caught my eye as I went down the path. Best I can tell, its a Black Giant Ichneumon … Continue reading “Muscle Monitoring – 8/10/2024”
We’ve been running the Sunset Race for many months/years. Occasionally we change up the format to keep things fresh. Last month we wanted to go downstream to Meramec Marina, but were flooded out. This month was a rematch against a now low river. We had a larger crew than normal with 8 boats. The paddle … Continue reading “August Sunset Race – 8/9/2024”
Looks about the same as last month.
Around 2:45pm Wednesday 11/13, I received a phone call. When I glanced at caller ID, I knew that I was in for an interesting phone call. Caller ID said “Alton Public Works Department”. I gave the public works my cell number and told them to call me any time during the construction process to speed … Continue reading “Truss me, this is crazy! – 11/13/2024”
We’ve had some significant rain in the area recently. There is no roof on the house, so the water comes in and just sits on the sub floor. Theoretically this is acceptable per some reading I’ve done online about this.We’ll want to test the sub floor in several places before accepting this work after the … Continue reading “Checking In – 11/11/2024”