 the faucet we started with... |
 ooo...ahhh... |
digging out the outlet and fishing the wire was one heck of a task. i'll spare you all the details and in the end, it turned out darn nice. i think. <g>
 sheet rock and about 3/4" wall |
 string and weights to fish with |
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 the wire was pulled! |
 all is powered! |
so, it's all powered now, the pipes are rerun and the water is flowing. we even had to pull the dishwaser and put it back for all of this to work (but that's another story). so, in the end, the disposal grinds away, the faucet flows nicely and the diswasher behaves. and so far, we don't have any leaks (knock on wood)
 the left view... |
 the right view... |
ya, it's a beast! but, it's 3/4 horsepower, grinds bone and on top of that is quieter than our dishwasher! it's a pretty darn nice garbage disposal so far. it was a heck of a task to get everything in but it's done and looks like it actually turned out ok. <g>
 the new locks |
 ooo...ahhh... |
since the house was a rental before we bought it and since we both really like the handle style door knobs we decided it would be a good idea to replace all of the locks and deadbolts. you might notice, if you look at the original pics and compare the door colors, we also don't have pink doors anymore! <g>
the rain barrels serve a couple purposes. we'll use them to collect water and water plants during the summer, but the biggest problem we've had was that the back corner gutters both empitied right at the foundation. and worse, the slope caused the water to stay at the foundation and not flow away from the house. DOH! so, when it rained hard we had a leak in the basement. now, it looks like we're able to collect in the barrels and divert the water out into the middle of the backyard and so far (knock on wood), the basement has been dry! woo-hoo!
 the new rain-barrels |
 and gutter redirection |
 yup, that's where it'll go... |
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| the install went pretty well, but interestingly we needed a 16" flat drill bit connected to three 12" extenstions! why? the wall has a horizontal beam, so unless we wanted rip the wall apart, we had to do something... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
almost as tall as the ladder! |
it's backlit! |
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we wanted to also get a twist style doorbell, but they were out and weren't able to order any. so, we went over to hippo hardware. yet another wonderful place that is very dangerous. we looked around and found a very nice craftsman style twist-style doorbell, so we got it thanks to mary's parents!
 the doorbell, from outside |
 and from the inside |
mary found this cool bottle opener and we got it up in the kitchen
 it's a bulldog |
 during the day... |
 and at night! |
it's turned out pretty darn nice.
but, when switched off the bulb flickered. hmmm... why you ask? the real problem appears to be that it's a compact fluorescent bulb and the switch had been swapped out awhile ago for an intermatic ej500 timer. turns out, they don't support cfl (as is apparently common with virtually all timers) and they're actually an electronic switch. from what i've read they're not fully off/on and leak a little bit, hence, the design of the cfl and the leaky switch cause the cfl to fliker when "off". so, we had to put a real switch back in. there are timers that support cfl bulbs (like the swylite lst100 and maybe the sylvania sa170, can't find my manual), but those i've found require a neutral in the box. some work will need to be done...
 we used 2x6s and 4x4s |
 it's been planted |
now we just have to figure out what to plant... <g>
updated: it's been about a week and this afternoon we planted the box with a bit of a randon selection: strawberries, three types of peppers, corn and summer squash. then i mowed the lawn and we spread the clippings around as this is suppose to keep weeds from growing and help the soil. this is the first time, so we'll see...
 corn, from the front |
 strawberries, onions and peppers |
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 squash |
 pumpkins (outside the box) |
 and even sits steady! |
 room for a few more |
we also found a nice hutch on craigslist. one heck of a deal and polished up nice. (i really need a better picture though)
 yup, lots of vaseline glass |
one heck of a good weekend!
 the bench |
 the view underneath |
now, if i can just come up with a project or two to work on... <g>
 the bottom skeleton |
 it's complete! |
it's ten feet long, and about 39 inches high. seems to be pretty nice right now and one heck of a nice place to stack things! hopefully we can keep a bit of it free and actually be able to use it when needed for projects... guess we'll find out...
 hops from freshops |
 the backyard "map" |
the map basically explains where each of the pictures are from. we have the first box, the middle two boxes and the hops-to-pumpkins view that's been pieced together.
 'tis a bit blurry |
 need more lights! |
there must be more holiday pictures hiding, especially of the pumpkins... if they ever come up we'll see how similar my jack-o-lanterns look. <g>