Home Ownership Terrors, Recreation, and Hobbies
We poured the concrete for the sidewalk, that was a lot more work than expected, and this ‘little’ slab took around ten 80 pound bags of concrete to complete. It was a difficult area to pour with blue stone underneath which could not be removed and steps and concrete planter walls on the edges. The […]
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Here are a few shots of the property at the end of March, I will be taking photo’s for end of April as well so you can see the massive difference over just one month. I took these pictures back at the end of march, so that is when this post is dated, however I […]
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Winter 2008 was actually pretty decent in the new house, shoveling was a nightmare so we bought an Ariens snowblower / snowthrower (I’m not sure when everyone switched to saying ‘snowthrower’…) The exact model I picked up is the Ariens 924 DLE, it has a 9HP Tecumseh snow king engine in it and cuts a […]
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