For about the last five years, I’ve had a cat Lola. Kelli and i got her from a co-worker at Remax. We wanted a second cat besides Alley, preferably a kitten. Kelli asked around and heard about Lola.
We were a little dissapointed at first because she was a fully grown cat, but we took her […]

So Robie has been asking me for a night stand for ages now. I have one on my side of the bed, but she doesn’t. So I have to hand her the glass of water when she’s thirsty. I have to hand her her phone when it rings (or more commonly, when she uses it […]

I had lunch with my friend Grady today, catching up and so forth. At some point, I was talking about one of my recent projects and how I have pictures on my blog. He says, he’ll check it out, but it made me ask, “why don’t you just subscribe to it?”
He doesn’t know how and […]

I’ve been getting some good use out of the chisel mortiser that I got at the woodshow last year. I’ve been working on a sidetable/nightstand for Robie (post coming soon). Today, I whipped up a pair of trellises (trelli?) for the garden.
Turned out pretty nice, I think
 

I’m finishing up my sabbatical. Every 7 years Intel gives ALL fulltime employees an additional 8 weeks of paid vacation. My blog has covered some of the stuff I’ve done during this time, my second sabbatical. The first one was spent in Africa and in Germany.
One of the things that I had wanted to do […]

It’s been a bit overdue to give Frankie his annual shave. It seems there may have been more hair than cat!

Kinda looks like the cat on Austin Powers

So last week, Robie and I vacuumed up the bees in our porch column. We locked them inside a hive with a bunch of their honeycomb for a couple days in and effort to reset their sense of home. This morning, I put their hive on top of our existing hive with a double screen […]

As part of my sabattical, I planned on hiking a week’s worth of the Wunderland trail around Mt Rainier. when I looked at their website the trail conditions reports says that snow is bad enough that all four parties that had tried aborted by the end of the first day.
So I went back to plan […]

I had my house painted this week.
Before
After:
they’re not done yet, but it looks pretty good.

Being on sabbatical has given me time to catch up on blogging about my projects. The frequency of posts will surely go back down when I go back to work.
While living ast my old house in Beaverton, my bedroom took forever to cool down on hot summer days. The ceiling fan didn’t do the trick […]