This weekend brought the completion of the roofing — shingles and ridge vent. It was a great feeling to have that behind me. This morning I went back to Home Depot to get the wood and hardware for the door, workbench and side soffit. Once everything was unloaded, I started work on the door. The [...]

As the weeks go by I am getting less and less productive on the shed. I worked two half days on it which resulted in getting the trim around the window and about 70% of the roof shingled. All I can say after the latest work being performed, “I never want to be a roofer.” [...]

This evening we picked our biggest tomato of the summer. We’ve been eying this big boy for the past couple weeks. A couple more days may have gotten this bad boy a bit more red, but not risking the birds from finding it, we picked it and will let it ripen a bit more over [...]

The shed building continues as I enter my third weekend. This weekend will not be as productive for Saturday is Larry and Kelly’s shower and Sunday I have an assignment for the Examiner — covering a game at the Ripken World Series that features a team from Harford County. Friday, Aug 08 Today I was [...]

Another 3-day weekend has come to and end. Not all my goals were completed, but the main one was — getting the roof put on and the felt paper down. The day started a bit slow, for I had to run to Home Depot to pick up some trim board and drip edge.   Home Depot [...]

I forgot to notify Mother Nature of my shed building plans this weekend. I awoke to thunder at about 4:30a this morning. I jumped out of bed and looked out the window — it was raining. My siding that I was hoping to stain wasn’t going to happen now, so I went back to bed [...]