Apple pie assembly

Nothing like apple pie from scratch. Even the pie crusts were home made. Although they were a little too crumbly. Probably didn't add enough water.

Apples from Chelan, WA by way of Costco.


A mound of chopped apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon, and salt provided by Christy.



The final product!

Cheap construction

Whenever it's really windy out, you can always here the ventilation flap inside making noise. The reason is that the vent opening to the outside doesn't have a door. Probably not the best thing when it's over 100 degrees out too.


Well after some tinkering around with some sheet metal, I was able to create a flap that will hopefully prevent the wind and hot air from entering the house. The white in the picture below is clear caulk that hasn't cured yet.

Bathroom remodel

This one fortunately cost under 20 bucks and will hopefully prevent the kitties from kicking cat litter out of the box and more importantly not let them pee outside of the box. Our previous one didn't have the cool bubble lid and door. The problem with introducing any new bathroom is that your cats might prefer their old bathroom more and boycott the new one. After finishing the bathroom upgrade, I was a little nervous since the cats had not used it or even gone to check it out. Let's just say I've never been more excited to wake up and see some logs in the litter box.

4" nail but no 5" nails

We had a roof tile fall off during a storm. Luckily no one was under it. I thought putting it back up would be easy enough but turns out that my 4" nail was just a little too short to hit the roof. Turns out that Ace hardware doesn't sell anything larger than a 4" nail. So a little improvising led to a piece of wood screwed to the roof and then I nailed the tile into that. Hopefully the wood lasts. All of this looks easy enough minus the fact that you are 20 ft up in the air.

Cologne for Cats?

This is our last hope. The cats demand to be fed at 4:30am and won't take no for an answer. They scratch and body slam themselves into the door. Hopefully this cat pheromone plug-in diffuser will do the trick. Will let you know in 4 weeks if it worked or not.

Nothing like a glove to catch those fly balls

Caught a Giant's game while vacationing in SF. Even rode the slide in the huge coke bottle in the stadium.