Porch Replacement 2023 Jun 12-30

June 12: Demo the concrete porch and ramp

June 14: Pull the last of the concrete out of the wall.

June 15: Repair rotten siding and prepare it for wooden porch attachment.

June 21: Dig a hole to bury the concrete rubble - Create a French drain

June 23: Add a concrete landing at the bottom and replace the lawn. Almost finished!

Water the replaced lawn...hey, not the concrete! Almost finished...final photo to be posted later

Knitting for a Baby Girl

I found six skeins of pink yarn in my stash and I heard there was a baby girl due to be born in June. So I knitted up two pair of baby booties (one small pair and another larger) then knitted a big blanket, using up all of those pink yarn skeins.

Cleaning up an old hatchet head

I brought an old rusty, beat-up hatchet head to Lief's workhop and he built a new handle for it from a scrap of Walnut. He polished off the rust, ground out a new beveled edge, shaped the wooden handle, attached it to the head, then soaked the final result in linseed oil.