Smoking on a Bike

One of my favorite games of all time is Super Monkey Ball for the GameCube. I’ve played hundreds of hours of this game, most of that competing for high scores with a good friend. It’s an incredibly fun dexterity challenge […]

Since we moved into our house, our TV has been mounted above the fireplace. As I was wrapping up The Cat Tower, I decided my next project would be a cabinet to place the TV on and my various video […]

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 […]