Dean Vaughan

Another Garage? Oh Yes.

I'm adding a 12'x20' garage for my bikes and lawnmower as I have the highbrow problem of not being able to fit everything I own into the existing two car garage. Two cars, two bikes and a lawnmower. The mower is under a tarp in the backyard, and I am only able to get two vehicles in and out without moving the third or the forth.

I'm putting the addition it in the middle of the house as I don't have room on the side and my heat pump is also in the way. I plan on having a nice path that connects to my driveway so I can just ride around. It's going to be awesome.

This coupled with all of the trees I planted this year furthers my goal of being able to walk around in my underwear without the neighbors calling the rozzers.

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Viva La Arkansas

Found this chap eating cat food off of my back porch.

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Veggie Cam!

Watch my indoor vegetable garden grow live! On the Internet! Oh my!

The picture updates every thirty minutes. I'll have some neato time lapse stuff up after I collect enough source material.

Update 4/20/09: Needed my EeeeEEEEeeeePC for something else, big timelapse to follow.

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DIY KLR Trunk

I've got a problem with my cheapo KLR trunk.

I was prepping my bike for the new season by tightening all of the bolts up, when I got to the bolts that hold the trunk on I noticed they were very loose. So loose, they fell out of the holes when I touched them. I tried to put them back and they would touch the head to the bottom, but only tighten a quater of a turn.

My first thought was, 'Oh no, the bolts are too short, I better buy some longer ones.' But then my second thought was, 'If the bolts were plenty long before, how did they magically get to be too short?'

I took the trunk completely off and this is what I found:

See those silvery bits in the holes? That is the back end of the bolts sheared off inside. The bolt is supposed to be about two inches longer. Not cool.

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Backyard Wildlife 03-09

It's almost spring in the Ozarks, lots of brown, but a touch of green here and there.

Meadow Lark

Dark-Eyed Junco

Cow Birds

Dark-Eyed Junco

Box Cat

Meadow Larks

Camo

Rusty Capped Sparrow

Bradford Pear

White Crowned Sparrow

Female Northern Cardinal

Female Northern Cardinal

Dark-Eyed Junco

Dark-Eyed Junco

 

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Keeping Busy…

Not my thigh, but it is my handy work.

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