Ultimate back-breaking day

This is the second post about my back/neck breaking efforts on my section. I had this thick ivy covered retaining wall, which I cleared last spring, another garden/section task after making raised garden bed. The end result was again very satisfying. But I was […]

Breaking points

It's about time I blogged about my outdoor project last year. I somehow missed the timing to start sharing ongoing development. A good thing with this delay is, I can now share the experience in a "fastforward flashbacks" fashion. The project was setting up […]

The beast tamed

Although I declared Project-R stage one is complete, there were a couple of rusty spots that needed a serious repair. Since then I bought a sheet of roofing iron and needed to cut it into smaller pieces for the patch up. I also need […]

275

Today I have pulled out the last of the rusty roof nails and replaced with the roof screw No 275. That was the moment that marked the end of Stage-one of my main summer DIY project, AKA Project-R (R stands for roof-painting). Two-hundred-seventy-five roof […]

Therapeutic roofing

After a great start in the brilliant early summer, my roof painting project, the project-R has not taken off as much as I'd have liked. Today after a month of non-roofing, finally the conditions were right AND I felt motivated. I was going to […]