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Front Yard Flower Bed
When we purchased this house several years ago, there was zero landscaping done to it. Over the years we expanded things greatly, but had come to the realization that the front needed a little something “more”. So we picked up some rocks from the farm for a border and got to work with the Supervisor Dog watching over us: With the border down, and the weed barrier in place: I stated hauling rock with the Ranger: All done! Just need…
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New Floors!
This turned into one of our biggest home improvement projects to date. The carpet in the house was original and had seen better days in most of the rooms. The kitchen had been refreshed at some point in time which included new white tile with white grout. Needless to say, that never stayed looking clean for longer than a day! So after taking the Ranger on a couple of trips to our local lumber liquidators, we acquired quite a few…
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Small Shed Build
After years of constantly juggling with the limited space in the garage, it was well past time to give ourselves a little breathing room. Sadly, since we are in a subdivision in the city limits, there is only so much we can do for out buildings. No 40’x40’ pole barns, but an 8’x12’ shed falls just under the square footage amount required for building permits in our berg. We caught a sale at Lowes for one of their DIY shed…
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1995 Miata – Another Go-Kart
Many years ago, well before marriage and adulthood settled in, I had a 1994 Miata that was violently taken away from me when a fellow failed to stop and creamed me as I crossed an intersection. Fast forward several years, and I felt the yearning for another one. After searching for several months, I came across a California-Arizona raised 1995 Miata that had made its way to the Midwest. The 1st generation (NA) Miata’s are prone to some nasty rust…
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2002 Mustang GT – A bucket list car
This car was one of my bucket list cars. The “New Edge” body style of Mustang came out in my last years of high school, and I dearly wanted one at the time. It took several years before that dream was realized, and it was realized once I finished my last round of college: It took awhile to find this car as there were quite a few “less than prime” examples on the market at the time. But the wait…