Glen has a green thumb!
Your before and after photos about sums up my home owning experience.
25 years of home maintenance and improvements.
Did you actually change the color of your brick too? Looks gray now?

My house and cars have benefited from all this stay at home bs.
I'm ready and about to take a 5 year break from house projects. ;)
Back to the garage. :)
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Agree, years ago spent 2 weeks in Denver cleaning my MIL's place.
Hired help to repurpose all we could.
Still had a full dumpster while trying to empty a 3 story house.
Good luck, since it was not my mom's place just had to go with the flow to get it finished.

working one day at a time at this point.

Same brick. The original photo was shot on film at dusk. I wanted to be able to see inside the garage and the walls in the garage. It was done with a Hassleblad on a tripod and a several second long exposure to have the exposure correct. Scanned on a high end scanner at work, and tweaked in Photoshop.

Current photo is from my iPhone, point and click, done. We did repaint the garage doors and the grey trim on the soffits and around the windows.

And the planting is all my wife's doing. I keep the grass mowed, and she keeps putting in gardens so I have less to mow. I just have to dig holes for her to plant more stuff.

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The garage is what made me fall in love with the house. 3 car wide, oversized and a workshop area with a bathroom in the garage. I just assumed it came with a kitchen and bedrooms, I was in love. My wife loves the closets and the rest of the house.

When my parents died I had a whole house of "stuff" that was their lifetime of possessions, plus the stuff they had form each of their parents houses, and grandparents and so on. The house was packed. We threw out a lot of crap, and went through the house and got the stuff we wanted. I hired a professional to go through the house, and dig in every corner, drawer and cabinet. He put everything on tables, and a price tag on everything. He worked for two weeks, and we had a big estate sale. He took 30% of the take, but save me years of work. That got the house emptied out, so I could sell it and then follow the will for the dispersion of the funds between my brother and I and the appropriate charities.

Hell of a weekend for me.
Got the gearing on the bicycle changed. Then, I discovered that some of the PB blaster I used on the bottom bracket had found its way to the brake pads....then, I hit a tree.

Also, tried to replace the radiator on a friend's 2000 eldorado. Couldn't get the new one to line up well enough to get the fans back in. Managed to year my hands up pretty nice in the process.

Dang trees will always win in a fight with a bike and a rider. I remember the first time I ever replaced the brake pads on my 914 I fired it up to back out and go for a test drive. The pedal hit the floor as I had not touched the brake pedal as yet. I was rolling right toward a busy street and hit the brakes a second time. Phew, stopped just in time. Now I know, pump the brakes before I put it in gear.

I don't know. Joe is one of the few people where the tree is not the guaranteed winner.

he did say he hit a tree. It probably deserved it.

A week or so ago I was talking to my wife how I had wanted a 12 string guitar since early high school. We took some drum cases to the local music store to see if they would get rid of them for us. They had a sale going on and there was a Fender 12 string with the electronics already in it priced very aggressively. I now have our 20th anniversary gift from my wife. I did play it before we brought it home.

Anyone know what a Ford 9" third member with an open diff and 2.73 gears in it is worth? 28 spline.

So Brent, did you pay Stairway to heaven or the opening of Smoke on the water? ;)

Hotel California since it is a 12 string!

well record it and post it.

And be sure to get a funny hat, and sing along like Marcus did back in the olden days when the thread was new.

Hey, I thought we moved past that stuff 1000 pages ago when Livi and Dave quit!

Maybe Doc Fluffer will return to see the performance!

As long as he isn't recording his fluffer performance. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Well, that was officially the smallest brake job I've ever done, but I got a new rotor and pads on the back of the bike

Back long ago in my single days I lived .9 miles from work. I tried riding my bike a few times, but every single time I did I ended up needing to pedal home to get my car to run some errand. I ended up buying a little scooter that got 80 MPG. At least I did not return to work from lunch all sweaty that way.

The brakes were pitiful on the scooter, and they were some little bitty drum brakes suitable for a RC car, but not a scooter. I had to adjust them constantly or it was really scary. My insurance company was charging more for the insurance on the scooter than for my 914. I asked why and they said the experience in paying claims set the rates. I sold it to my neighbors and just drove my car and gave up on the scooter.

Morning all. Today is all meetings and zzzz.

Rain came in last night and is supposed to stay for the next 10 days.