Doug's Sounding Board

The paths look pretty much the same as they did yesterday though they continued to work on them. The big change today is the paving stones that were added. I was also wondering where the old stepping stones were dug up from since i never encountered them in the back yard. I do know where […]

They aren’t bonded yet, but they are there.

Pictures of the progress after 6 days are now available. If you somehow missed the others, you can click up to the parent album from there, or just go here. Yesterday we also picked out our kitchen and bathroom fixtures, sorry, but no pictures of those. Also we finally lined someone up to remove the […]

When I go to Bookshop Santa Cruz I make sure to check if there are any new issues of Found Magazine, usually to be met with disappointment. It isn’t the most regular of publications. I was happy to find that they publish a “Dirty Found” magazine filled with all the things that people sent in […]

I uploaded the progress pictures for work done after 5 days. It’s good to see shape coming to the fields of dirt.

I like the new take on the old Coca Cola jingle, “I’d like to buy the world a Coke,” which now starts “I’d like to teach the world to chill” performed by G. Love. It’s an ad for Coca-Cola Zero rather than regular Coke but without the visual you’d never know that. In addition to […]

I have a better structure for the landscaping pictures now. I’ll update them fairly often. Right now there are the before pictures and after 2 days pictures. I’ll put up some after 4 days pictures tonight or tomorrow and maybe just do once a week highlights.

Last night I had a dream where I realized National Novel Writing Month was coming again and I was wondering if I would actually get around to writing this year. When I woke up there was e-mail from NaNoWriMo saying it was time to register for this year, so I did. I still don’t know […]

Happy New Year! I hope it’s the start of a great year for everyone. Mine didn’t start out that well with it being taken up by the end of a 17-hour work day, but that just means I have a lot of room for improvement! Are there any other industries besides software that can get […]

Starting this morning large chunks of our driveway are being removed to make way for a major overhaul of the front and back yards. Here are some before pictures and maybe I’ll post daily pictures showing progress. I haven’t decided yet.