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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="278" caption="My Hop Plants"][/caption] Well, just to give you an update on the bathroom, I passed my final inspection. I also finished all the trim in the bathroom, so the bathroom itself is complete. I will post photos in the next couple weeks after I get the hallway and closet trimmed out. I started growing my own hops. I took a photo of them this weekend, the tallest is about a foot and a half tall already. This year they should ... Read More

I haven't posted here in quite a while. That is not because I have been lazy, but because I have been getting work done, and not writing here. My last post was that I had drywall up, but I am quite a bit closer to completion now. It took a couple weeks, but Tom worked hard and did most of the mudding and taping. I helped him a little bit, but most of that time that he was working on that, I ... Read More

Well, December has been quite the month. If you haven't heard I went to Denver to give a Solidworks presentation, then I missed my trip to Wichita for a business meeting. The week after I had to go to Billings Montana for my grandfather's funeral. The week later was Christmas, when I went to Omaha. Somehow amidst all this I managed to get my Christmas shopping and preperations done, and put up drywall. My father-in-law Tom came over again a few times and ... Read More

Here's a quick post showing my bathroom progress. The inspector came on Friday (I took the day off work), and signed off on the electrical rough-in. He also gave me the go-ahead on the plumbing. I really appreciate my dad coming down and helping me with the electrical. Friday, my father in-law Tom "The Burninator" Miller came over again and helped me with my plumbing. We glued together all the PVC we could, and then started sweating pipes. At the beginning I was ... Read More

So if you haven't noticed yet, my blog went down. Server had a harddrive failure, so I lost my database that drives my blog. Don't worry, I'll get it up and running again. I'm a bit busy with my bathroom, the inspector is coming by tomorrow to inspect my rough-in work. Hopefully this weekend I can get everything back up and running! I'm afraid my previous posts are probably gone forever, I'll see what I can do about bringing them back. Read More