In this post I am going over the finishing of the raised bed box by completing the “installation” and then filling it with stuff to make the soil. All of the soil components were purchased from Home Depot. For future raised beds I will definitely look for cheaper alternatives for some of these items. To …
Read More Raised Bed Part II – Filling The Box
I started my raised bed building by visiting my local Home Depot to see what materials they had that might be suitable. I was originally thinking to go with 2×12 Pine board as that would be sturdy enough and I could easily screw the 4 pieces directly together. But after looking at the cost compared with …
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Amazon tells me that I purchased the All New Square Foot Gardening book way back in October of 2011, yet somehow I’ve never gotten around to setting up my own garden. I recall telling myself, “I’ll do it next Spring” and yet many Springs have come and gone since with still no garden. In the …
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Edit: Somehow I never got around to finishing and posting this. So here it is several months later đ Kate and I started our inaugural camping trip with me taking Friday off to do packing and loading of the “stuff” you need when you go camping. Thinks like tools (far too many), firewood, all the …
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Note: picture heavy post ahead! This post details my installation of the Husky Centerline TS weight distribution hitch model #32215. As I mentioned in my previous post, I went with the Husky over a few other brands/models mainly due to price and some convenience features. The Husky hitch comes decently packaged in a box with …
Read More Adding a Weight Distribution Hitch to the Camper – Part II
Since we bought our camper I have been reading a lot about properly setting up our tow vehicle (TV) for towing our large-ish popup in a safe and stable manner. As one comes to expect of the Internet these days there seems to be way more opinions than facts out there. Anyways, I am moving …
Read More Adding a Weight Distribution Hitch to the Camper – Part I
To go along with our new camper we needed a more capable towing vehicle. We had been considering a few different larger SUV’s for the task but I felt that having a truck would be better. After much looking online for used and new trucks, Kate and I settled on a 2016 F150 with nearly every feature …
Read More A New Truck
Katey and I have been looking at campers on and off for about two years now. We’ve looked primarily at popups (aka folding tent camper) and hybrids (hard sides with foldout tent covered beds) and we prefer ones that have a slide out dinnette to increase the interior space.
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I had a need to move some of the logs and limbs that have not yet been split for firewood to make room for a new acquisition. This was a good opportunity to put the new chainsaw to work and see what it can do. It took me a few tries to get the saw …
Read More Splitting Wood with New Chainsaw
Now that the extreme summer heat is beginning to diminish, I have started thinking about getting back to the pile of logs I still have left to split. Some of these logs are quite large and very heavy. Heavy enough that I moved them with a hand truck when they trees were first felled. And …
Read More A New Chainsaw