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Master Bathroom Refresh
At this point, we have redone just about every room in the house, except the master bath. When we first moved in 11 years ago, we slapped down some peal and stick tile to spruce things up a bit. Age was not real kind to this quick solution, and the counter top really could stand to be replaced:
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Welding / Fabrication Table
Given that I always seem to be welding and fabricating in my little garage, I decided it was time to get off the floor and onto a welding table. Off to the scrap bin to grab some material to make a frame: Started burning the legs to the frame: I got a large piece of 3/8” plate from work for the top, thankfully the table height worked out to be the exact same height as the F-250 bed so I…
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ORT to Washita MX 7-4-09
This is part of a series of past Off Road Trips (ORT’s), in this case with the ’87 XJ. Enjoy! A good day for wheeling, we covered about 11.5 miles in the park, and I still haven’t seen some of the parts of the park:
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Cookie Cutter TJ Rear Tire Carrier
I’m cheap, so naturally I wound up building a tire carrier out of scarp metal rather than ponying up for a real one when the Cookie Cutter TJ outgrew its stock sized spare 🙂 I like the thought of saving weight by not dragging a spare tire around with me all the time, but I want to be self sufficient, so along comes a spare! Took some scrap to work and played around on the mill to get this: Pulled…
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Our first west trip – Colorado 2009
After several years of marriage, home ownership, and general financial stability, we were finally able to make our first trip out west. This trip started a long term trend of us making a yearly trek to some western state to see Gods beauty first hand. Now some folks seem to think that you need quite a bit of cash and a fancy vehicle to see all the beauty in the mountains. We were able to disprove that thought process as…