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Rehab Or Die: Front garden pics... and a foundation leak?

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Friday, April 19, 2013. Front garden pics. and a foundation leak? Tulip bulbs are in and almost blooming, and we've got Dusty MIller, a yellow poppy, lithodora (tiny blue flowers), a purple Columbine, a few seedums, and a ton of purple Irises. The Irises will probably take longer than normal to bloom, seeing as how they've just been transplanted. I was a little rough splitting them apart. They were VERY compacted and in a bad way. So we're in the pro...

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Rehab Or Die: April 2013

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Hoop houses made easy. It was brought to my attention that someone couldn't find a post on our hoop houses. and neither could I. Could it be that I never posted pictures? Yeah, it's possible. Two years ago, DH built a lettuce box ( post here. First of all, like any good project, it's a reason to go to Home Depot. Then the plastic: we had some leftover 6 mil plastic from either the water feature episode of the rehab. I wrapp...

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Rehab Or Die: Covington Facade Grant...and a front yard.

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Friday, April 12, 2013. Covington Facade Grant.and a front yard. So why does a facade grant put things on hold? Well, because you suddenly stop and think, 'this was going to cost a heckofalot of money. if the city is willing to help us financially to do the work, shouldn't we try for it? And then, unfortunately, you stop thinking about putting your own time and money into a project, when the city just might offer you $5000 to do the project. Six were...

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Rehab Or Die: A funny thing happened on the way to the garden

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Friday, April 19, 2013. A funny thing happened on the way to the garden. Last year I bought a lion statue for the garden. What I wanted was this gorgeous beast, weighing about 2000 lbs. and so far out of budget I couldn't even pretend to wave a credit card at the website with a straight face. Not gonna happen. So what I ended up buying was this guy (below), about 3' tall for $40, made of plaster. Designed for outdoor use. And so I did. Once I had the...

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Rehab Or Die: Good bugs, Bad bugs

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Good bugs, Bad bugs. A quick walk in to the garden and there was a swarm of these ugly black and red bugs all over the greenhouse, the raised beds, in the lettuce bed - just everywhere. I'm talking hundreds upon hundreds of these little suckers:. Creepy little monsters, aren't they? On the other hand, if you see these little bastages (below) prepare to kill. I used to be squeamish about killing bugs with my bare hands. We've ...

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Rehab Or Die: Fences Fences Everywhere

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Friday, April 12, 2013. Oh how I'd love to have the fence above, but alas. it's not going to happen. I've spent a lot of time looking around at what others have done as far as perimeter fences and gates, how they're embedded into stone (or concrete in some cases) and here are a few samples of what I'm looking at nearby in Covington, KY. Hoop and spear, pretty basic. in concrete. Posted by The Young Ones. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is ou...

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Rehab Or Die: Making feta cheese

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Ok, well I didn't think to capture the first part of the recipe visually, I suppose, because it's BORING. But here it goes anyway:. 1 find fresh goatmilk. 2 avoid the Fed dairy-nazis. 3 sterilize a metal pot (with lid) by steaming a few tablespoons of water in an empty pot for a few minutes. 4 dump the hot water down the sink. 8 Wait 8 hours. What I like to do is cut the curds into blocks. It makes them easier to handle. One th...

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Rehab Or Die: Problems we plan to encounter: Breezeway Concrete

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Friday, April 12, 2013. Problems we plan to encounter: Breezeway Concrete. The plan to de-horrify what we call the 'breezeway' (the area between the East side of our home and the West wall of our neighbor's house) involves determining first whether or not we wanted to JUST remove the concrete slab in the breezeway, or remove it along with the bricks underneath. The answer, for me, is: try to save the old bricks. Why? 3) I think it looks cool. Ok, I s...

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Rehab Or Die: It's still raining.

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This is the beginning and the end is nowhere in sight. Sunday, February 17, 2008. And the wind has kicked up and oh, yes, tore off all of the felt paper the box gutter fellas put down. It's all over the yard now. And I think they must have pulled off some of the flashing from around the chimney and the apex of the west roof line, because we're getting as much water inside as the Titanic. Not on my watch. The rough opening for the door is 39" wide by 101.5" tall and 9" deep. The transom was covere...Hangi...