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“This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good. What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving something in its place I have traded for it. I want it to be a gain, not a loss – good not evil. Success, not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for it.” – Heartsill Wilson
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things.” – Robert Brault
BHAGs!
Have Goals! Live your life with goals. Cross things off your list, add new things, repeat! I’m an old man with ADHD who is always in chase of his next BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal). I might move quickly from topic to topic, but they all interweave together into this thing called life. I only…
My BHAGs!
This site will cover topics I’m interested in (in no particular order) and my goals related to each:
To spend time with the best family ever!
To fight off death (by being strong and harder to kill)!!
To earn all the money!
To keep/grow all the money!
To go to all the places!
To ride all the epic rides!
To own (and even read) all the good comics!
To play all the good video games!
To hike all the good trails!
To find all the good music…and see a bunch of it live!
To watch all the good movies!
To read all the good books!
To own all the cool vehicles!
To listen to all the good podcasts!
My Blog Posts!
Redoing The Front Beds – This Old Dean House
Giant yew bushes OUT… azaleas and hostas IN! Emily didn’t like the giant shrubs on the front of our house (neither did I). So we ripped them out. Then we went to the nursery and figured out what we wanted back in.
Laundry Room Renovations – This Old Dean House
The dirtiest part (so far) of our entire renovation (and that is saying something) was our laundry room renovation. I had to pull the ceiling in this room, and half of the back yard came out of it. I guess a family of squirrels had lived in there at some point over the past 135…
Timber, Trees Down – This Old Dean House
3 trees removed (2 massive and 1 dead) and a ton of cleanup on others was a lot to deal with. We basically spent the entire summer getting tree work done. I always joke with Emily that anytime I spend $1k I have to at least get a video out of it. Well, I should…
Master Bath Renovation – Part 3 – Framing The Wall (This Old Dean House)
Build That Wall(s)! I’ve framed an entire basement remodel in the past. This was much less than that…but…it was not easy at all. In order to minimize demo (and not tear into the entire house), I had to tie my new framing into the existing framing. The existing framing was “wonky” to say the least!…
This Old Dean House – Sideyard (Phase 1) – HVAC Area
The side yard of our house was a disaster from earlier projects. We’d replaced both HVAC units and the water/sewer lines from the street. I needed to level it out and get the area around the HVAC units put back together. I brought in my heavier equipment for some ‘light’ landscaping work. This made the…
Master Bath Renovation – Part 2 – Never Ending Demo (This Old Dean House)
This bathroom was like demo’ing a lasagna…layer upon layer upon layer. Paneling, drywall, wallpaper, beadboard, wood lathe…you name it, and this bathroom had it. I was already planning to remove one wall entirely. As I dug deeper, I realized I needed to get all the way to the studs to make sure the structural walls…
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