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"My Thoughts and Sayings ...
"Seeds Through the Air"
"My Life in a Barn" by Eileen Blakeman


Home Depot Christmas
Filling a Zen water 8 gallon purifier
Mr Heater Buddy


Marienne Uy of The Country Kitchen
Hauling rock with a 2007 Prius
Our dog's arthritic xray
 
The Able Table
Luxottica Italian glasses fell apart
All liquids into fridge for the summer
 
The 29 Palms Inn restaurant
Walmart supercenter, Joshua Tree
Sunrise over Palm Springs from I-10

Handstand on Laguna's main beach
Coyote camouflage
Bobcat at the pond

Three roaming coyotes
Desert tortoise
Teddybear Cholla
 
Birdnest in a Pencil Cholla cactus
Wrens on a Joshua Tree
A scorpion in my Dewalt drill bit kit
 
Apricot Mallow flower
Puddle on a rock
Vacuuming dry brush under deck
  Travel:
Checking dog into United cargo BOS
Checking dog into United cargo LAX
United Airlines cargo LAX

United flightdeck
Las Caseuelas Terraza, Palm Springs
Big Bear snowfall

The Hotel Laguna
Catalina Island from Laguna Beach
Cleaning solar panels with snow
  Power:
Four Sharp ND-216U2 solar panels
48V banks of Deka B-DK-8A27 batteries
Attaching heat cable with silicone tape

Carriage lamp on the carport
New lamp on our utility house
Battery will not hold a full charge

Battery rack castor broke off
Trailer rack with electric and plumbing
With a GFCI outlet

Installing a heat tape
Pulling a heat tape with molding
Preparing to install heat tape

Securing heat tape with silicone tape
Heat tape plugged into GFCI outlets

Sixteen new Deka batteries
The Outback MATE 3 screen
voltmeter readings of Deka batteries

Unpacking a new Deka 8G27 MH17218

Electrical outlet with heat tapes

controller, 63A breaker, inverter
Switch under the Exeltech inverter
Sharp ND-216U2 solar panels and specs
  Water:
Ice pushed this valve off its pipe
2007: ice shattered this PVC pipe
Easyheat freeze protection cables

The Rheem RTG64XLP has arrived
Rheem water heater on fence panel
Laundry in a Danby DTT420 twin tub

Detergent suds over our pond
Cleaning the pond pump filters
Duckweed in the mail

Duckweed on the pond
A neighbors hose is filling the pond
The Wonder Water II truck hose

Ice sprung a leak in this Rheem WH
Water tank PVC shutoff
Removing the old tankless water heater

Clamping shutoff valve over its pipe
Spray from an ice split in the pipe
Stretch and seal silicone tape

Covering the hole with a stick-on pad
Securing heat tape with silicone tape
Trying out a clear silicone tape

The clear silicone needs extra wrap
Attaching trellis with clear tape
Heat tapes lead to GFCI outlets
  Deck:
Gluing split redwood deck board
SketchUp replication of rear deck
Gluing broken deck board

Reasssembling deck
Measuring for a raised shed platform
Lumber for building a shed platform
  Structural:
Framing our raised shed platform
SketchUp of shed platform and steps
SketchUp of shed platform and steps

Our Lifetime shed on a raised platform
Storing LP tanks in shed
Our homesite with the new Lifetime shed

future shed platform between boulders
future shed platform between boulders
April 2002 after the stone wall

A 4x6 gets the height of the platform
4x4s carry the platform temporarily
One corner cut to overlap a boulder

Temporary 2x4 legs carry one corner
Determining where post will meet pier
Digging-chiseling the first post hole

Pouring concrete into a Sonotube
this corner is way off center
The pipe should go up the center

The southwest post is attached
plywood attached with 2" screws
Waterproofing the plywood decking

coated with bear cedar waterproofing
Marking the first stringer
Verifying new stringer will fit

first stringer to mark the others
3 stringers 2 skirts 2 risers
Stringers loosely assembled

aluminum footings protect the wood
stringer frame to platform frame
concrete is poured into Sonotube form

The middle stringer gets a hanger
shim puts skirt even with stringer
Topping skirt even with plywood

Adding top step, extension and riser
Trimming plywood overhang to fit riser
SketchUp of proposed shed platform

SketchUp of proposed shed platform
SketchUp of proposed shed platform
SketchUp of the proposed shed platform

SketchUp of the proposed shed platform
SketchUp of proposed shed platform
Cutting posts from 4x4s

Getting height and slope of railing
Bolting with flush barbed tee nut
8" bolts through post-skirt-stringer

Pre-drilling the redwood railings
Treating the railings with Thompson's
top posts will support deck railings

The Lifetime shed label
Unpacking the Lifetime shed
The Lifetime shed 6405 PDF manual

Assembling the Lifetime shed floor
Unpacking the Lifetime shed
Assembling the Lifetime shed walls

Assembling the Lifetime shed doors
Wind flipped this corner out
Installing Lifetime shed end roof cap

Under the Lifetime shed roof
The Lifetime shed from above
The Lifetime shed window

The shed rafter is 82 inches plus
The Lifetime shed interior
Adding ladder hangers to Lifetime shed

Adding ladder hangers to Lifetime shed
Adding ladder hangers to Lifetime shed
The Lifetime shed interior

The shed doors are level
Lifetime support sent a new channel
Testing that rain water will drain out

Carport, trailer, Lifetime shed
Solar house, carport, trailer
The solar utility house and the trailer
  Renovation:
Measuring for a SketchUp CAD drawing
Bracing a shed platform post
Creating a post base in SketchUp

2003 photo of deck frame
Sketching deck for SketchUp
Sketching the deck frame in SketchUp

Measuring deck for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp

Measuring the pipes for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp

Measuring the pipes for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp
Measuring the pipes for SketchUp

SketchUp replication of deck framing
Of the deck framing, plumbing, electric
Framing, plumbing, electric and tapes




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