Stairway from Hell?
Stairway from Hell?

You don’t think too much about stairways, but they’re a bit tricky to get right, and I have been thinking about and planning this stairway all week.  There are several websites that will do the math for you so I bought the wood, grabbed my pencil and speed square and got to work – yeah, right.

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Moving on Up
Moving on Up

Exceptional week at the ranch.  Got the second story floor joists put up, and all the decking down.  It wasn’t without its complications, however.  I ordered the 20 engineered wooden I-beams from McCoy’s with specific instructions to group them into 5’s so that I could lift them with my tractor.  When they got to the

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Oh, What a Relief
Oh, What a Relief

Completed the installation of the septic system. Fortunately Williamson County concluded that my soil would support a gravity fed anaerobic system (without pumps or chemicals). I’m surprised at how big the drain field needed to be. It’s actually larger than the one we had in Santa Fe, and that was for 3 bathrooms and really

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