August 21st, 2007
If you Google around enough, with diligence and creativity in your search terms, plus a dash of willingness to check out page 12 of the results, you just might find some value provided by your government.
For example, I’ve been trying to spruce up the overgrown, dreary and downright treacherous shrubs, bushes and vines littering my […]
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August 3rd, 2007
While doing some work around my house, I found our old coal chute, which had been boarded over and backfilled with coal.
I now have a barrow full of coal.
How does one dispose of a barrow full of coal? Google only leads me to methods and facilities for recycling coal ash. Converting coal into […]
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July 22nd, 2007
Rebecca and I have a habit of standing around, talking about all the things we could do to our house.
Some of our talk has centered around the ugly “patio” of poorly-laid bricks and easy-to-trip-over landscaping timbers.
This morning it was a brisk 65 degrees, perfect for some manual labor, so up came the patio.
Thankfully the people […]
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