Paint doesn’t really like the rain forest conditions of upstate New York. At least that’s what our painter said. His suggestion was to go over the old painted clapboards with cedar shingles. Well sir, that’s just what we’re doing – cedar shingle siding! To be exact white cedar shingles dipped in a bleach stain. In the photo above, the clapboards on the left side are only about five or six years old and are premium Read more…
A few years ago we decided it was time to dress up the house a bit. What better way to do that than to add a sunburst above the door to the mudroom! In Salem, NY and in West Hebron (where I actually live) there are many homes with sunbursts. Some are really nice, while others…well, aren’t. After looking at them, I came up with a plan to make my own, stealing ideas from the Read more…
Foot throttle broken by a beaver So I was brush hogging some pretty tall weeds near our creek. The weeds were so tall that I couldn’t see some shortish stumps. One of them ended up scraping underneath the foot platform breaking of the throttle bracket and rendering it inoperable. After a lot of inspection and Googling I figured out what the issue was, but fixing it was another story. As can be seen in the Read more…