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A new project.

August 6, 2025 Rivergirl 21 Comments

Remember when my husband tore down most of our old shed and rebuilt it without the addition?

Remember when my husband bought an antique wagon and had to rebuild the addition to house the purchase?

Remember when I complained about having a gaping open hole on the north side of the new addition because my husband couldn’t figure out how to build a door on the wonky shaped opening?

Remember when my husband covered the hole with a tarp thinking that would suffice?

Silly man.

Door construction has begun.

I had multiple ideas for this.

None of which were taken under consideration.

Have you hugged your door today?

Remember how nothing was even close to level or plumb when the shed was built?

It’s going to be interesting…

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Sea glass, a new project and travel cheese.

May 14, 2025 Rivergirl 24 Comments

I saw this the other day and had a flashback to my childhood in New Jersey.

The hand came to life and snatched the letters one by one into the bloody swamp.

Epic. And I was there for it every week.

For those of you, who like me… comb the beaches.

My husband has recently decided the wood has to leave the woodshed, the interior wall on the right separating the shed from a storage room needs to be removed and a floor needs to be laid.

I do not expect this project to go quickly or smoothly. Stay tuned.

Red door.

Since I plan on living more than 3 years. Duh.

If a cheese fortune teller is paid in cheese? I have the perfect scarf and earrings for the job, sign me up.

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And to think it only took 67 days.

November 21, 2024 Rivergirl 27 Comments

Sixty seven days ago my husband put in our new front door.

And for sixty seven days I’ve been (none too patiently) waiting for him to finish the job by trimming it with interior moulding.

Finally!

It will be nice not to see insulation and ragged edges again.

As usual I assumed the role of quality control and rendered some things unacceptable.

And though there was a fair amount of grumbling from the installer, it all worked out in the end.

If sixty six days late.

Disclaimer – no cats were disturbed during the installation process.

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And then there was paint.

November 3, 2024 Rivergirl 9 Comments

My husband says he’s done with the shed extension for this year.

And as hard as I’ve lobbied to truly finish it with a third wall/door, my pleas are falling on deaf ears and I shall have to live with (though not quietly I assure you) a tarp that covers the open end all winter.

Grrr.

But that doesn’t mean I have to live with raw wood so I matched the old color as well as I could and got to work.

My husband doesn’t paint.

Or stain.

Ever.

But that’s fine, I don’t mind doing my part.

Though I do end up wearing almost as much as whatever structure I’m painting.

There.

At least it looks little better…

Though I’m still going to ride my spouse to put a trim post on the unfinished rear right edge.

Big barn, little barn.

The color match isn’t perfect, but it will do until I can put an another coat on the whole building next spring.

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Before and after… finally.

October 28, 2024 Rivergirl 31 Comments

Our front porch remodel is now complete. New door, new stone siding, new ceiling, new posts, new railings, new decking, new light fixture.

Ka-Ching!

And while there were a few bumps along the way… I have to say we’re pleased with the results.

For someone who’d never worked with stone siding before, my husband did a good job.

As long as you don’t look too closely. 😉

Before and afters.

Cleaner, fresher and much more attractive.

👍

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And around we go…

October 15, 2024 Rivergirl 19 Comments

Since the new door was in and trimmed, at least on the outside, it was time to resume stonework.

I’ll be honest and say the husband really wasn’t looking forward to this part.

Inside corners are tough to line up properly.

And we know precision finish work is not his forte.

But he knocked that small wall out quickly and it looks pretty good, from afar.

The section that’s really giving him a headache is between the door and the window.

The stone siding sections are 36 inches long…

So of course the distance between the door and the window is 38 1/4”.

Not wanting little 2 1/4 pieces and seams running the whole height I asked him to cut the sections different lengths so he could stagger the joins.

This suggestion was not well received.

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Trim and a roof.

October 13, 2024 Rivergirl 17 Comments

Back at the shed extension project, some trim was added.

And oddly added at that.

And even though the third wall/door hadn’t been figured out, work moved to the roof.

Where my too cheap to buy more husband used part tar paper, part leftover ice and water shield.

He kills me that way.

The man thinks nothing of dropping $200 for dinner, but balks at buying a last roll of tar paper or another full piece of wood when leftovers will do.

Whatever.

This is where the third wall should go… except the raison d’etre for the extension is rolling the antique carriage under cover so my husband wants to leave it open. I’m lobbying for some type of large door but with the roof angled for rain and the side of the existing building so clearly off square I’m meeting a lot of resistance.

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