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Week 2: Footings
While the driveway progressed, we made a batch of strawberry jam and I spent some time clearing out the pond, which is overgrown from years of neglect. It sits near the north edge of the property and, if you don’t interrupt, … Continue reading
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Week 1: Driveway
We got the permits. We waited 15 days for the public to object, and we’re ready to go. There’s been a lot of confusion about the roof line: I couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. At the … Continue reading
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We’re building a house
We had it pretty good in Westford, with views, gardens, sweat equity, and the like. Yet we decided to move. We’d talked many times about where we wanted to be ‘eventually,’ and when I quit my job, it seemed like … Continue reading
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The Home Stretch
I went back to moving big stuff and the big bench is nothing if not big. This monster is 42″ deep, 10′ long, and 2″ thick. It used to be part of a bowling alley, and I remember that, back in … Continue reading
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Save the beams. Part II
The next day, I sold my other metal lathe. $600 on craigslist, which is a lot less than I paid for it, but it sure taught me a lot. One less thing to move and store, and even now, 2 … Continue reading
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Save the beams.
The plan is to take the money from the Westford sale, use it to build a modern house on the back pasture in Morrisville while living next door in the Green House, and then tear down the Green House. This … Continue reading
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Trailering
Having moved the lathe, the rest was going to be easy. The very next day, Stu looked like this. And day by day, more loads of stuff got moved. Sunday: Pipes, hardwood, plywood, canoe, trellis … Continue reading
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Moving the lathe
I’d start with the big stuff, I figured. And the biggest thing I own is my lathe, a 15″ Harrison said to weigh 3000#. The Blue Monster, and if I can move It, I can move anything. … Continue reading
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I sold my house.
We put my house on the market on March 1, after spending what seemed like all winter touching it up. Within a month, it was sold. The couple who bought it are a pair of IBM engineers moving from Texas. … Continue reading
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Some people want to be on TV. And some people want to be on the web. So here I am, on the web. And you are reading Page 1. � You’d think I would have done this a long time … Continue reading
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