Month: March 2024
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Week of March 25, 2024
Read more…: Week of March 25, 2024Going to be a shorter post tonight. I’m tired from a day of shoveling compost and dirt to finish the garden beds project. We ended the day by sowing peas, radishes, spinach, and cilantro. Check out how nice our compost looks! The compost bins were one of our early pandemic projects. I’ve already used it…
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What’s in my first aid kits?
Read more…: What’s in my first aid kits?I’m thinking a lot about first aid kits recently. There are tons of catch-all lists out there that didn’t quite fit our specific needs (or I felt were overkill), so I thought about it for a while and made my own. First aid kits should be situationally dependent. For example, I don’t need a tourniquet…
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Week of March 18, 2024
Read more…: Week of March 18, 2024We’ve all been sick with a cold this week. Charlie got it first and recovered the fastest. Amanda got it next and was down Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I got it Saturday afternoon and was down most of Sunday. Hopefully I’ll recover quickly. Thursday and Friday after work/daycare, and Saturday after dinner Charlie and I…
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Week of March 11, 2024
Read more…: Week of March 11, 2024The warm weather and extra daylight at the end of the day has been a welcome change. Every night this week Amanda, Charlie, and I spent some time outside after daycare/work and before dinner. We are dinner outside multiple times this week, went for walks, cooked dinner on the grill, got our outdoor seating out,…
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Workbench build
Read more…: Workbench buildStep two of the workshop upgrade. Previously: Insulating and heating my workshop with a diesel heater Research and design The workshop is a small 10×14′ space, so I needed to be very intentional about where I put this workbench to maximize work area. The previous owner had haphazardly installed a 72″x20″ particleboard desk top as…
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Insulating and heating my workshop with a diesel heater
Read more…: Insulating and heating my workshop with a diesel heaterI mentioned this in some weekly posts, but wanted to write a dedicated one so I have a place to link to in the future. Working out in my 10’x14′ workshop on a cold day in January and shivering, I resolved to finally put in some heat. My first idea was a tiny top-loading wood…
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Week of March 4, 2024
Read more…: Week of March 4, 2024Lots of rain this week, so we did indoor activities like going to the library, going to the grocery store, and making ambulances out of boxes. This box is still in our living room, though now Charlie calls it his “garage” and likes to hide underneath it while we walk around the house and call…
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Adding a Climbing Wall to an A-frame Swing Set
Read more…: Adding a Climbing Wall to an A-frame Swing SetPart one is making the basic A-frame swing set: https://cagrimmett.com/2022/08/06/building-a-swing-set-with-a-frame-brackets/ This is part two. Part three is adding a slide platform: https://cagrimmett.com/2025/05/03/adding-a-slide-platform-to-an-a-frame-swing-set/ Last year I added a climbing wall to one of the sides and my son loves it. A friend asked for the details, which made me realize I should have posted the details…
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Week of February 26, 2024
Read more…: Week of February 26, 2024My birthday was this week! I wrote a post about it. I’m continuing to work on my workshop upgrade as much as I can. This week I: Things are starting to come together nicely and I’m pretty happy about it! I’m getting excited about working in there more. Posts also forthcoming on the general upgrade…