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  • Rain-barrel Rack Part TWO

    If you haven’t already, read Part One of this 2 part article on Rain barrel collection which goes over the platform that the barrels sit on. Here is the assembled product. Originally I mentioned that I was going to throw some plumbing into this article. So here it is.. I will admit that some of…

  • Rainbarrel Rack Part ONE

    The images in the article have been affected by an old online storage provider I used to use a long time ago It seems that imageshack.us corrupted some (or all) of my images.  I have since copied what was salvageable and placed in on my server.  Some images do not have full sizes to view. …

  • An Internet Tail

    You may notice that there was no post in March 2010.  My apologies.  I started this web log with the intention of making a good content rich article for the Jack of Trades Journal  every month.  So I put up an extra long article on a rain-barrel rack system as some sort of compensation.  I…

  • The Shop’n’Fight Sydrome

    At first I thought it was just my wife. I would think: Why does shopping for kitchen tiles turn into a big fight?!? Then I’d think maybe it was us. Maybe our marriage can’t handle the stress of kitchen design.  Maybe it’s me! Maybe I am truly loathsome and don’t care about kitchen decor. I…

  • Google is Reading Your Blog Before You Do

    I just finished tweeking my “About Me” section a little bit and when I finished uploading, I noticed that the advertisement was for the Canadian Oil sands website. The fact that the words petroleum, career, and technology are in the post has a lot to do with the advertisement that Google picked for me to…

  • What to give a Jack-of-Trades for Christmas

    It’s boxing day. I’m ready to explode from all the Christmas pudding, turkey, sweet potatoes and high calorie everything. I’m gonna work off some of those calories by typing! Yah. I asked for the following items: Gift certificate to KMS Tools Gift certificate to Princess Auto Shop clock Lee Valley Gift certificate Jeans Many people,…

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