Thanks!SmileWavy
It was a fair amount of work but stickburners are very few and far between up here and the price was very good.

Baby backs before...
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And After...
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Before:
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After:
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Step 1 remove stump

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Step 2 clean out weeds

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Step 3 get recommendation from friend to make it a fire pit
Step 4 align fire pit, realize too close to house

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Step 5 move fire pit, realize have to move retaining wall

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Step 6 move retaining wall

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Step 7 realize the fire pit stone you had laying around the property won't work as you don't have enough, clean out weeds 2nd time

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Step 8 buy new fire pit stone
Step 9 clean out weeds for 3rd time
Step 10 build fire pit
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Step 11 finished wall
Step 12 lay down plastic and river rock
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Step 13 Light fire! I'm not completely done, still a little clean up, but at least I can use it now that it is getting cooler out

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after
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Its amazing what a little paint and clean up can do.

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^^^^ Nice work, good looking house.

Thanks. I dream of having my own the flip my house shows! lol

Shoulda leveled the porch! ;)

j/k

Porch is level. House is crooked.

Yes, that worked. It went from cold and miserable to warm and stylish. Good skills.

There was a series on TV where houses that didn't sell got a "mind's eye" sort of a makeover. It was amazing how it worked. the designers did the 2/5th, 3/5th thing. they moved the path over. Put a plant in here, a tree over there. And when buyers came they said to themselves "I don't know what it is about this place but it just feels "right" to me, lets move on it."

Actually, the porch isn't level. There was a very large tree that grew on the right hand side that raised the porch like 6 inches. Im working on a solution that doesn't involve what every contractor is saying "you have to dismantle the porch and rebuild it". I feel there is a clever solution brewing...that will hopefully be much cheaper but will involve somehow removing the 4 foot stump next to the house. THis is a rental property so I have some tight margins.

It's fine, it actually follows the incline of the street. Old houses are supposed to have "character".
we were just picking nits.

The trees in bloom really help out the look as well but nice job.

Yard Sale Before:
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Yard Sale After:
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Dough-Ray-Me:
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My first-glace look was "Schwimmwagen"?

I thought the Nordic was a twin track single ski??? I luv the old sleds. We/I need more pic's of the resto. I have 3 old sleds, 72 Arctic Cat Puma, 74 Cat Lynx with the Wankel motor and a 66 Ski -doo Super Olympic, twin carb, single cyl. Haven't restoed the 66 yet but contacted Ski-doo and told them what I was going to do and they sent me an original, printed in 65, owners manual for free. I thought that was special.
Great job on the sled BTW.

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My very first ride ever on a snowmobile was on one of those.
It was a snow day and one of the neighbor kids was out having fun on his new ski. His family had money, they were about the only one in the neighborhood that did.
I don't know if he was just being cool or showing off, but he gave me a ride.
I wanted one soooo bad after that even though I wouldn't be able to use it very often. I ended up getting an old minibike dad got from the junkyard and fixed up, that was almost as cool and I could use a lot more.
The brake pedal shaft broke almost right away but I never said anything to dad, didn't want to seem unappreciative so I rode it around for a couple years with no brakes.
Mom wondered why I was wearing out the soles of my shoes so fast.
GOML.