Archive: Update

May 13, 2008 : Good Timing
May 10, 2008 : Five Hours of Non-Stop Fun
May 9, 2008 : We're Getting Awfully Good at Foundations
May 7, 2008 : Garden Report: May 7
May 5, 2008 : Garden Report: Fruit in the Trees
May 4, 2008 : Planting and Repotting
May 4, 2008 : Rest Week
April 26, 2008 : A Dog, a Butterfly, and a Fence
April 20, 2008 : Meeting Our Goals Halfway
April 19, 2008 : Inefficient Assembly Line
April 18, 2008 : If I Had a Stapler
April 15, 2008 : Garden Report: April 15
April 13, 2008 : It Was Very Hot Today
April 12, 2008 : And on to the Chicken Yard
April 12, 2008 : A Post About Posts
April 11, 2008 : Fencing
April 7, 2008 : A Very Sticky Situation
April 5, 2008 : And Now the Floor
April 3, 2008 : Garden Report: April 3
April 2, 2008 : Chicken Movies
April 2, 2008 : More Chickens
April 1, 2008 : The Life of a Chicken
March 29, 2008 : Chicken Day
March 26, 2008 : Garden Report: March 26
March 26, 2008 : Unwhitening, Part Two: Now! With Asbestos!
March 24, 2008 : Hacking at the Garden
March 22, 2008 : Total Water Recycling
March 22, 2008 : Stuff in My Tank
March 21, 2008 : Fun with Carcinogens
March 21, 2008 : Stuff on My Tank
March 21, 2008 : Garden Report: March 21
March 20, 2008 : Unwhitening, Part One
March 20, 2008 : Plumbing in the Tank
March 18, 2008 : Whitening the Whiteness
March 17, 2008 : Spring in Deed if not in Fact
March 14, 2008 : Let Me Show You My Figs
March 12, 2008 : Whiteness
March 11, 2008 : A Few New Plants
March 11, 2008 : What Was Dead is Alive Again
March 9, 2008 : Lots of Bad Joke Potential
March 8, 2008 : Highway to Compost
March 7, 2008 : Sinking the Tank
March 5, 2008 : Magnificent Magnolia
March 2, 2008 : Lawnmower Man
March 2, 2008 : Just a Little Hole in the Wall
March 1, 2008 : Making it Stick
February 28, 2008 : Endless Seas of Green
February 26, 2008 : Buds of Springtime
February 25, 2008 : On the Level
February 24, 2008 : The Sands of the Accordion Room
February 16, 2008 : Off-Season Flowers
February 15, 2008 : Grafting and Weeding
February 11, 2008 : Starting Seeds
February 10, 2008 : Take a Trip Outdoors
February 2, 2008 : Progress on the Paint
January 28, 2008 : A New Kind of Scraping
January 27, 2008 : The End of Plaster Work
January 26, 2008 : Figs and Chickens
January 15, 2008 : Four More Apples
January 14, 2008 : Digging More Holes
January 13, 2008 : All Washed Up
January 8, 2008 : Washing Continues
January 7, 2008 : Sympathy Flooding
January 5, 2008 : Tilting at Fences
December 17, 2007 : A Treatise on Wallpaper Removal
December 16, 2007 : And Now for More Scraping
December 14, 2007 : Some Weird Stuff and Progress
December 14, 2007 : Panels Down
December 11, 2007 : Graduation Present
December 5, 2007 : Another Epic Project
November 19, 2007 : I'm Going to Need a Machete
October 30, 2007 : I'm a Big Fan of Overengineering
October 21, 2007 : A Brief Update
September 24, 2007 : Fall is the Season for Harvest
September 13, 2007 : Deep Taproots
August 20, 2007 : Boring House Work
August 9, 2007 : Attack of the Killer Tomato (Plants)
August 3, 2007 : Water, Water, Everywhere
July 29, 2007 : We Are In Control
July 22, 2007 : Bursting With Produce
July 20, 2007 : Quality Testing
July 15, 2007 : Surprise!
July 8, 2007 : Giddy for Tomatoes
July 8, 2007 : Piping to the Fern Walk
July 3, 2007 : Eating from the Garden
June 24, 2007 : Finishing the Basement Manifold
June 22, 2007 : Stalled
June 21, 2007 : Official Summer Plants
June 20, 2007 : Sprinkling!
June 18, 2007 : Water in the Orchard
June 10, 2007 : The Last Trench
June 9, 2007 : Piping the Gardens Wild
May 27, 2007 : Irrigation Work and Some Plants
May 12, 2007 : I Sense a Theme in This Garden
May 4, 2007 : Instead of Weeding
April 29, 2007 : More Fruit
April 22, 2007 : Clean and Dirty
April 21, 2007 : Roses, Fruit, and Trees
April 19, 2007 : Lots of Planting in Store
April 9, 2007 : In the Pink(s)
April 8, 2007 : All the Stuff Noel Did
April 8, 2007 : Rose Explosion Predicted
April 1, 2007 : Work of a Weekend
March 29, 2007 : What It's Like to Live in a Renovation Project
March 26, 2007 : In Bloom in the Garden
March 26, 2007 : Some Weekend Projects
March 24, 2007 : Peace and Quiet
March 22, 2007 : Seeds, Blooms, and the Garden Show
March 14, 2007 : Welcome Wagon
March 13, 2007 : Pink Flowers and Burnt Weeds
March 12, 2007 : What I Do for My Garden
March 6, 2007 : Temperate Climates Kick Butt
March 4, 2007 : Now You're Weeding With Fire
February 27, 2007 : Yo-Ho-Ho and a Pile of Poo
February 26, 2007 : Scorched Earth Policy
February 16, 2007 : Cold Frame
February 12, 2007 : Springing
February 11, 2007 : Weeds and Compost
January 21, 2007 : Sort of Like Cleaning House
January 15, 2007 : Honestly, We Like Digging
January 15, 2007 : Hard Frost
January 8, 2007 : January in California
December 12, 2006 : Catching the Rain
December 9, 2006 : A Handful of Chores
December 4, 2006 : How to Cure a Hangover
December 3, 2006 : How We Take a Day Off
December 2, 2006 : 85 Sacks
November 26, 2006 : Rain and Drains
November 25, 2006 : Dobies and Mesh
November 24, 2006 : Boards and Battens
November 18, 2006 : Sticks and String
November 12, 2006 : In Which Life Gets the Better of Us
November 5, 2006 : Weeding in the Lavender
October 30, 2006 : Posts That Didn't Make It
October 27, 2006 : Strawberries in November
October 22, 2006 : If It Looks Like a Duct and Quacks Like a Duct...
October 21, 2006 : How I Spent My Day
October 21, 2006 : More Fall Planting
October 15, 2006 : Let There be Warmth
October 13, 2006 : Gone Fishing
October 10, 2006 : Ricocheting Around the Back Yard
October 7, 2006 : Digging Blah Blah Plumbing Blah
October 5, 2006 : First Rain, and Dead Grass
September 24, 2006 : Some Notes on Trench Safety
September 23, 2006 : Some Assembly Required
September 21, 2006 : First Fruit
September 21, 2006 : The Theme for This Summer is: Digging
September 20, 2006 : Rearranging the Shrubbery
September 19, 2006 : Moving House
September 19, 2006 : Finished!
September 18, 2006 : Three More Blocks
September 17, 2006 : Only Moderately Obsessed
September 17, 2006 : Looking More Polished
September 16, 2006 : Fussing and Digging
September 14, 2006 : A Foundation for the Shed
September 13, 2006 : I am Definitely NOT Cut Out to be a Digger
September 12, 2006 : Guess What? And Also a Shed
September 11, 2006 : Sore
September 10, 2006 : More Moving, More Digging
September 10, 2006 : Big Pot of Succulents
September 9, 2006 : A Fountain in the Garden
September 8, 2006 : Hummingbirds at the Feeders
September 7, 2006 : First of the Fall Plants
September 7, 2006 : Rose Report
September 6, 2006 : Digging More of the Hole
September 6, 2006 : Fall Seed Starting
September 5, 2006 : Free Stuff
September 4, 2006 : Digging a Hole
September 4, 2006 : More Wiring
August 31, 2006 : The Great Tidy
August 30, 2006 : More Moving Around
August 26, 2006 : In Which We Talk About Weeding
August 26, 2006 : Open Season
August 24, 2006 : Ugly Patch
August 23, 2006 : Fine-Tuning Winter Planting Plans
August 22, 2006 : What We've Been Up To
August 18, 2006 : Seed Saving
August 18, 2006 : Detaching from the Mothership
August 16, 2006 : Hummingbird Wars
August 16, 2006 : More Summer Flowers
August 16, 2006 : More White Stairs
August 15, 2006 : Another Layer of Primer, and The Perils of Celebrity
August 15, 2006 : Things That Go CRASH in the Night
August 14, 2006 : Painting the Porch
August 12, 2006 : The Joys of August
August 11, 2006 : Summer Pruning
August 8, 2006 : A Little Overboard on the Salvias
August 4, 2006 : The Miracle of Pegboard
August 3, 2006 : An Army of Volunteers
August 2, 2006 : Strawberry Propagation
August 1, 2006 : Birds on a Wire
July 31, 2006 : Hummingbird in the Mist
July 30, 2006 : Butterflies in the Lupines
July 29, 2006 : Thrivers
July 28, 2006 : Victims of the Heat Wave
July 22, 2006 : More Lilies
July 21, 2006 : Water Tanks
July 19, 2006 : Tobaccy in the Garden
July 18, 2006 : Flowers as Big as Your Head
July 17, 2006 : For the Birds
July 16, 2006 : Rose Experiments and Other News
July 15, 2006 : Containment Strategy
July 14, 2006 : Some Random Garden Photos
July 14, 2006 : Bring on the Hummingbirds
July 13, 2006 : Sweet Peas
July 12, 2006 : Brick Walk
July 11, 2006 : Thistle Love
July 10, 2006 : Stomped!
July 9, 2006 : The Colours of the Garden
July 9, 2006 : The Fruit of the Garden
July 8, 2006 : The Scent of the Garden
July 8, 2006 : Hoopla
July 4, 2006 : Blue Flowers and a Tree
June 26, 2006 : Summer Flowers
June 25, 2006 : Summer Rain
June 24, 2006 : Inching Closer to Sprinklers
June 23, 2006 : Summer is Here
June 18, 2006 : Back in the Trenches
June 17, 2006 : Yeah, More Plants
June 17, 2006 : Morning Plant Update
June 11, 2006 : In the Trenches
June 11, 2006 : Some Plantings
June 11, 2006 : Don't Fence Me In
June 10, 2006 : Middle of the Manifold
June 10, 2006 : Beginning the Manifold
June 6, 2006 : Manifold Destiny
June 4, 2006 : More Plants
June 4, 2006 : Digester
May 30, 2006 : Bricks and Thyme
May 29, 2006 : More Front Bed Work
May 28, 2006 : A Walk in the Ferns
May 27, 2006 : Garden Triumphs and Tragedies
May 27, 2006 : Some Garden Innovation
May 26, 2006 : Too Much Weeding
May 14, 2006 : Trial by Water
May 13, 2006 : You Know You Love the Plant Posts
May 13, 2006 : Garden Update
May 13, 2006 : Have We Mentioned That We Have Stairs?
May 10, 2006 : So Close...
May 8, 2006 : Before and After
May 7, 2006 : Underground Pathway
May 6, 2006 : The Nuclear Option
May 6, 2006 : Stringers
April 29, 2006 : Let There be Light
April 29, 2006 : The Garden: An Overview and Notes
April 23, 2006 : Mysterious Goings on Under the House
April 23, 2006 : Hours of Invisible Work
April 22, 2006 : Apres le Deluge, Moi
April 2, 2006 : Garden Art and More Plants
April 1, 2006 : California Natives Garden
April 1, 2006 : Another Week
March 26, 2006 : The Progress of a Week
March 24, 2006 : A Tough Row to Hoe
March 23, 2006 : More New Plants
March 22, 2006 : Secure and Yet Not Really
March 21, 2006 : Arbor Day
March 20, 2006 : Hail and Torment
March 19, 2006 : More Planting
March 19, 2006 : One Quick Squee Post
March 18, 2006 : The Wonder of Shelving
March 18, 2006 : Making the Bed
March 17, 2006 : Flower Show and Flowers
March 17, 2006 : Obligatory Spring Garden Photos
March 16, 2006 : The Sound of Silence
March 15, 2006 : Bulbous
February 20, 2006 : Fern Walk
February 17, 2006 : Gardening in the Rain
February 12, 2006 : Quite the Sod Experts
February 11, 2006 : Rosehenge
January 22, 2006 : Our Own Landfill
January 22, 2006 : Paint the Orchard White
January 21, 2006 : More Tree Planting
January 21, 2006 : More Plumbing Work
January 15, 2006 : Plant Yourself an Orchard
January 14, 2006 : More Backbreaking Labour in the Yard
January 2, 2006 : And at Night, the Ice Weasels Come
December 22, 2005 : Hot Water Time
December 21, 2005 : Copperific
December 19, 2005 : Main Line
December 18, 2005 : For Our Next Trick
December 15, 2005 : Assorted Landscaping Work
December 12, 2005 : Cat Flap
November 28, 2005 : Sitework
November 17, 2005 : Exit To Street
November 16, 2005 : Bituthene
November 15, 2005 : Blubber, Oddiment, Tweak
November 13, 2005 : This and That
October 18, 2005 : Siring the Wump
October 17, 2005 : Fence!
October 16, 2005 : Rotate That Subpanel
October 10, 2005 : Sod It All
October 9, 2005 : Toil and Trouble -- Film at Eleven
October 8, 2005 : Four Pallets
October 7, 2005 : Concrete!
October 6, 2005 : Final Steps
October 3, 2005 : Prepping for More Concrete
September 30, 2005 : Porches
September 29, 2005 : Shear Volume
September 28, 2005 : Driveway
September 27, 2005 : The Yard
September 26, 2005 : Earth Moving
September 24, 2005 : Rumour Has It
September 23, 2005 : Back Yard, Two Views
September 22, 2005 : The Incredible Shrinking Pile
September 21, 2005 : Day of Rest
September 20, 2005 : Fisher Brothers
September 20, 2005 : Small Beams Removed
September 20, 2005 : Cribbing Removal
September 20, 2005 : Beams Go Bye-Bye
September 19, 2005 : Bay of Concrete
September 17, 2005 : Why We Started This
September 16, 2005 : Why Nail Guns Were Invented
September 14, 2005 : Walls, Walls, Walls
September 13, 2005 : Brief Hiatus Ended
September 12, 2005 : Posts
September 9, 2005 : Sills and Sticks
September 8, 2005 : HMS Hertz
September 6, 2005 : A Little Backfill on the Side
September 2, 2005 : Stripping Forms
September 1, 2005 : Front Foundations
August 31, 2005 : Remarkably Little Dirt
August 31, 2005 : Behind the Movies: Foundation Cam Uncovered
August 31, 2005 : The Day the Earth Moved
August 30, 2005 : A Step Closer to a Yard
August 29, 2005 : Drain in the Membrane
August 28, 2005 : Prowlers
August 26, 2005 : More Drainage Fun
August 25, 2005 : Magic Trick
August 24, 2005 : Form-ula Front
August 23, 2005 : Making the Outside of a Wall
August 22, 2005 : And Then There Were Walls
August 20, 2005 : Why Do This?
August 18, 2005 : Make Ready for Walls
August 17, 2005 : We Have a FLOOR!!!! OMG!!!!1!!1!
August 16, 2005 : We're Out of Rebar Jokes
August 15, 2005 : Tons of Steel
August 12, 2005 : It's All About the Bar
August 11, 2005 : First Rebar Inspection
August 10, 2005 : Sea of Mustard
August 9, 2005 : We Have a Drain Field
August 9, 2005 : More Gravel Than You Can Imagine
August 5, 2005 : Speed Demons
August 5, 2005 : Field of Gravel
August 4, 2005 : Sumpful Goodness
August 4, 2005 : We're Back!
August 3, 2005 : Resumption
August 3, 2005 : Reckless and Crazy
August 3, 2005 : Childish Behaviour
August 2, 2005 : Permits: Sorted
August 1, 2005 : Baileyectomy
July 21, 2005 : "The Rain is Over for the Season"
July 21, 2005 : The Orange Demarcation
July 17, 2005 : Tivo for Aggravation
July 11, 2005 : Waiting Game
July 3, 2005 : Subsidence
June 18, 2005 : An Accounting
June 16, 2005 : Unseasonal
June 15, 2005 : Weeding in the Rubble
June 2, 2005 : Where Are You?
May 23, 2005 : Off the Job
May 9, 2005 : Rain, Rain, Rain
May 6, 2005 : Hold, Please
April 29, 2005 : Humorous Asides
April 26, 2005 : Taking a Break
April 25, 2005 : Watching Concrete Dry
March 29, 2005 : Regrouping
March 25, 2005 : When Engineers Attack
March 24, 2005 : A Beautiful Day
March 10, 2005 : Down The Drain
March 3, 2005 : Subgrade
March 1, 2005 : Living on the "E.T." Set
February 28, 2005 : Grab Bag
February 27, 2005 : Foundations...Gone!
February 25, 2005 : Service Announcement
February 24, 2005 : Big Hole
February 23, 2005 : Wednesday Morning, 7AM
February 21, 2005 : Ahoy, Matey
February 18, 2005 : Temporary Plumbing
February 17, 2005 : Cribbing by Daylight
February 16, 2005 : He Shoots -- He Shores!
February 15, 2005 : Mud Wrestling
February 14, 2005 : Debris and Corner Shoring
February 13, 2005 : Neighbor Magnet
February 12, 2005 : Make Way for Shoring
February 11, 2005 : Another Stair?
February 9, 2005 : Subpanel Move
February 8, 2005 : Side Porch Fix
February 7, 2005 : Bang! Bang! Bang!
February 4, 2005 : Who's Been Knocking on the Floor?
February 3, 2005 : No-Maintenance Results
January 31, 2005 : I'm Looking Through You
January 30, 2005 : Rot Me! I'm a Dais!
January 29, 2005 : The Three Ages of Sump
January 19, 2005 : All Quiet on the Home Front
January 14, 2005 : Blow the Skirts Off That House
January 13, 2005 : Some Disassembly Required
January 12, 2005 : Chimney-Be-Gone
December 29, 2004 : Foundation of the Foundation
December 15, 2004 : Back in the Ladder
December 15, 2004 : Heat and Hot Water
December 13, 2004 : Central Heat is a Glorious Thing
December 13, 2004 : Heat!
October 30, 2004 : Nekkid Ladies
October 5, 2004 : No, You're Orange
September 28, 2004 : Are You Yellow?
September 17, 2004 : Swatchtastic
September 15, 2004 : Chamber of Horrors
September 9, 2004 : A Tale Of Dreadful Dready Stuff
August 18, 2004 : Scrape Scrape Scrape
August 16, 2004 : The Writing on the Wall
August 16, 2004 : And Now For Our Next Trick
August 11, 2004 : Open Space
August 10, 2004 : Library
August 9, 2004 : Fields of Green
August 7, 2004 : Muddy Walls
August 4, 2004 : End of Tape
July 16, 2004 : Forward Progress Actually Visible
July 15, 2004 : The Curse of Perfectionism
July 14, 2004 : Someday, A Nice Bedroom
July 13, 2004 : Scrape Scrape Scrape
July 12, 2004 : The Colour of My Dreams
July 7, 2004 : This Evening...
June 28, 2004 : A Word to the Wiring
June 26, 2004 : Completion!
June 24, 2004 : Enough Counter Puns, Already
June 21, 2004 : Counter-Intuitive
June 11, 2004 : House Guests
June 5, 2004 : Eek!
May 31, 2004 : Not a Construction Zone
May 29, 2004 : Growth Spurt
May 24, 2004 : The Saga Continues
April 25, 2004 : A Man With a Mission
April 23, 2004 : The Joy of Compost
March 29, 2004 : Outlet and Mailbox
March 27, 2004 : New Roof and Plantings
March 18, 2004 : Top Coat
March 12, 2004 : More Spackle for Casa Decrepit
March 11, 2004 : Going Nowhere
March 6, 2004 : House of Spackle
March 4, 2004 : They're Back!
February 28, 2004 : Welcome to Our Houseboat
February 26, 2004 : High Winds over Alameda
February 21, 2004 : Stupid Kids
February 20, 2004 : All Quiet
February 12, 2004 : What Colour Shall We Paint the House?
February 4, 2004 : Flowers for Mikey
February 2, 2004 : Warmth: What a Concept
February 1, 2004 : Another Day Down Under
January 30, 2004 : Contractor Woes
January 28, 2004 : More Scraping, Plus Caulk!
January 24, 2004 : Aggravation
January 24, 2004 : White, With Photos!
January 23, 2004 : WHITE!
January 16, 2004 : Dampness Galore
January 7, 2004 : Whither the Painters?
January 5, 2004 : More Painting Photos
January 5, 2004 : Be Still, My Rusty Nails
January 4, 2004 : Something's Leaking
January 1, 2004 : Lush New Digs
December 28, 2003 : Fall 2003: Gardening and the Front Parlours, continued
December 21, 2003 : Winter Vacation
December 19, 2003 : Painters Galore
December 17, 2003 : Working All Night
December 15, 2003 : Reality Check, Plus Engineers Bearing Good News
December 14, 2003 : Bye Bye Basketball Hoop
December 11, 2003 : Make Hay While the Sun Shines
December 10, 2003 : A Dumpster for Christmas
December 9, 2003 : The First Piece of Drywall
December 8, 2003 : Down With the Awning!
December 7, 2003 : Recap of the Weekend
December 5, 2003 : Adios, Industrial Grey Carpet
December 4, 2003 : Delusions of Speed
December 3, 2003 : Money Pit
December 1, 2003 : Give Thanks for Insulation
November 25, 2003 : Writer's Cramp
November 19, 2003 : This is What Happens When You Defile the Fedex Burial Grounds
November 18, 2003 : Gardening at Night
November 17, 2003 : Missing Magnolia
November 16, 2003 : Weekend of Activity
November 14, 2003 : Why We Go To College
November 12, 2003 : Gallons of Caulk
November 3, 2003 : Back to Work
October 23, 2003 : Planning
January 31, 2003 : Stuff Dug Out of Our Yard
December 22, 2002 : Fall 2002: Front Parlours
September 25, 2002 : Summer 2002: Offer, Contract, Closing

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