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New Speed Record!

My bike commuting is still going strong, and i’m loving it! Two days this week I set new overall speed records on my way home. I’m up to a moving average of 17.9mph, and a best total time of under 16 minutes! And if you’re wondering, my top peak speed is over 30mph. If you’re [...]

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Light Show!

After much ado, we finally got our whole ebay/light switch shenanigans worked out! Now we are the proud owners of a remote control fan/light dimmer switch in our bedroom! I installed it last night, and I like it so much Alison thought she might wake up in the middle of the night to find me [...]

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We’ve got Gutters!

We returned from a weekend out of town on Sunday to find that our new gutters had been installed! They match the house so well we didn’t even notice when we pulled in, I went back out to look after we found the bill in the mail! Hopefully now we won’t have so much erosion [...]

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Nice Grass!

Only 8 days since our hydro-seeding we have tiny shoots of grass shooting up all over the yard! It’s tough to see them since they are camouflaged in the green color of the hydro-seed mix. Interestingly enough, I also took a closer look at the hydro-seed mixture and I found some print on parts of [...]

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Rain Gutters?

I’ve been reading up a bit on gutters, since our builder (apparently) doesn’t put them on houses. We’ve got some erosion going on along the sides of the house where the rain falls. I was thinking about putting some kind of paver stones on the ground where the water hits, but i think gutters might [...]

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