Porch-space

Cleaned the porch post-storm and also gave the front of the house a little freshening and cleaning as well. This is turning into a new favorite space with the full time shade, and it also made for a good viewing spot during the storm, although some thought I "...should be insdie during a storm, probably even in the basement..." or some such...

Bloomage

This will probably look this way for 20-30 minutes, so I thought I'd take a picture. I think its a lily, maybe?

Roof

Dormer-point of view shot of the new roofing...I'll try to track down some front-shots as well...

"Thats where I normally park..."

Well, I met one of my neighbors, who fortunately parked out front before the big storm...otherwise, not so good...


One street over had a bigger problem...

Power was out for about 9 hours on Friday night//Saturday morning.

Plan-tastic...

Just wanted to welcome some new visitors to the dome...hopefully they stick around for a while...

Radar blips...

So right after getting a new roof (photos to follow...), I was afraid I'd need a new one after a big raging storm on Friday night....

Hello there

This skylight might not get taken care of today, as apparently the wrong one was sent out...we'll see...

Classic...

Really comforting to know that someone was finishing off a cold one as they finished repairs on the roof at some point in Clearydome history...This is from the very peak of the roof, taken from outside as I assessed the insulation situation...

Hit the deck...

Some detail shots from the decking, which is the old-school 1x6x10 rather than the 4x8 style of the "modern era..."

Live updates from the Clearydome

NY Times has nothing on the Clearydome publications department, live coverage division...

The roofers showed up early, and got right to work today...

Mulch-tastic

Finally got the chance to mulch the place, and didn't bother with the bags from Lowes, going instead right to the source for 4 cubic yards of "Mock Cypress." What a decision with the radical color change.



It took two trips with Rusty to get it all, but despite the big pile, ended using it all...although in the future, I might just opt to have it "delivered." Don't tell that to Rusty, though. I don't want him to feel like he's not needed...

Introducing the Raincatcher 4000

Thanks to Nana for these two rain barrels, with a shout out to K man for the installation assistance, as some gutter-engineering was required...

Hopefully these will keep a couple parts of the yard from becoming "Full time puddles"

That was quick

The two trees out front came in pretty fast; Took a shot before leaving for a race, and then one soon after getting back...although there were two weekends in between, still quick to come in...

Update-Made in the shade

We needed to do some field testing on the new hammock, and wanted to present the users point of view...

Best-smelling

More springtime color

Dome in bloom...

On-line poll

Well, there has been a lot of polling going on here in Indiana with the primary coming up, so to that end...thought we'd get into the spirit with a poll @ a tree.

The pine tree has been nominated for removal, with an oriental maple slated to go in there instead...

Made in the shade...

The fence move created a perfect new spot for a hammock, since before the two trees were separated by the fence. Hopefully this will be a nice shady spot when it gets warmer out...

Ta...da...the incredible floating bed

Well, that cleaned up ok.

Dateline:Project Bedmake

Decided that a headboard was in order, and that I'd make my own design/measurements**. So I got a piece of birch cut at Lowes, stained it-just one layer seemed to be fine since I didn't really want to deal with cleaning another brush, and it took to the wood well enough to keep going.

Used the clamps I originally bought for the pedals on the racing game seat to lock the "frame" into place with glue and then screw in at the corners after sanding everything in sight down. Note brilliant use of blanket to catch said sanding debris. Also note that blankets were not used in previous sanding efforts.





**look for future blog posts about "head board problems//head board falling off"

Update:Bed

There has been a lot of feedback here for Clearydome Management, with folks feeling anxious, not knowing how things are progressing with the bed project. So two updates to follow...

First...Stained and ready to go... (spent a lot of time trying to decide what to get-the recommended water based stain and then polyurethane, but ended up getting two-in-one stain/poly combo. spent what felt like fifteen minutes staring at rows of paint, thinking about the huge implications of this decision. and after dealing with turpentine to clean my non-water-based stain, know that i made the wrong decision...)

Anyway, two layers of stain, but only where the mattress wasn't going to be...

The Clearydome would like to welcome Mr. Beaux, who will for the next week or so be responsible for possum control, kitchen floor spill clean up, and the occasional security detail**. Not to mention a variety of pitiful "is that all you are going to feed me?" looks.


Thankfully the new back yard fence, yet to be covered here, now has "hooks" to "keep the door closed" so we don't have the problems from his last visit...welcome to the dome, Beaux!

**Just kidding. He won't bark.

Bedmaking

Well, adding to the list of "I can do that," or it might be more accurate to at least say I'm adding to the list of "...I've tried to do that...once..." Set off to upgrade the downstairs bedroom/office, with the thought of a nice hotel room in mind. Stole the paint color for the room from yet another home improvement show. But we'll get to that later.

For now, here are the fist steps in my bed-building debut; thanks for the how to and inspiration from Todd Oldham's book "Home Made Modern," a recent library borrow...


Started with just some plywood and some plumbing parts for the legs (base to screw in the 8'legs, which were fresh enough from the plumbing supply store to make my hands all black when screwing them in), and got my first experience with "counter sinking" for drilling, once I learned what that was...

Up next...stain fun...