Smoking on a Bike

Because of the quarantine, we’re trying to grow all of our plants from seed this year. I’ve tried starting plants from seed indoors in the past and never had much luck. I’m too lazy to manage grow lights and such. […]

Good news/bad news time on the backyard grapes. The good news is all five grapes are doing great. The three from last spring have reached the top trellis wire, and the two planted this spring are each growing lots of […]

Next on the list of furniture to build for our house was a dining table. I already wrote about the start of this project, buying the lumber and rough cutting it. Since then I finished the project. This was my […]

In Spring 2018, we started growing grapevines in our home garden in Saint Paul. I did a ton of research on this, especially on Minnesota-hardy grape varieties. I found that the University of Minnesota actually does a bunch of research […]

Starting 2019 off strong with a trip to the lumber yard to get stock for my new project: a dining table made with cherry. About 2 hours sorting through the stacks at Youngblood Lumber Company, then another 45 minutes cross-cutting […]

We have three cats. Of course, their favorite thing to do is look out of our windows. Since we moved into our house, we had planned on having some way of giving them a platform to reach the ceiling windows […]