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Life with S/V Pinniped: Two Months In, Part II!
This past weekend, I went up solo to move Pinniped, hoping to find a few of our D-dock neighbors willing to give me a hand getting out and maybe getting tied up in…
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Life with S/V Pinniped: Two Months In, Part I
We launched Pinniped on May 3. Next week will mark two months in the water, so I figured it would be a good time to talk about the experience a little bit. Jenny…
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Show Log: Classic Brew Band at the Oaks Theater, March 9 2019
Hi blog. It has been a while since I posted any techie stuff here. For a while, I had split off most of the tech stuff into a separate blog at my Dryrose…
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The Value of Good Layout Tools
I started making things out of wood around the time I moved into my first place, a house I was renting on the back side of Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood. My parents gave…
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Snow Day
As we in western Pennsylvania move from the season we know as “Fake Spring” to the one known as “Mud,” the precursor to the four-day period known as “Real Spring,” we’re having what…
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Railfanning on the Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line, February 22, 2019
Hi Blog. So I guess this is mostly about the train watching trip I took with my Dad last week, but also a couple of other minor updates. Let’s hit the minor updates…
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A New Home for Some Family Ornaments
A number of years ago (I just asked Jenny, and we were married already, possibly our first married Christmas, but I really don’t know), my Mom was in Sam’s Club buying her usual…
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Old Houses, Old Wiring, and Ceiling Fans
Why, hello, blog! It has been a while. It has also been quite a while since I’ve posted much here about work on our old house. Part of that is because I really…
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This Year’s Tree Adventure
This year’s tree adventure was a little… different. We have traditionally cut down our own tree, from the same farm my parents went to when we moved back to this area and started…
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Departure Eve
I just found a short story snippet I wrote in 2013. I was looking for something else (that I didn’t find). I feel like there was supposed to be more, but I didn’t…
