Handsome or Handy

Jack of all trades…

So I was feeling Naughty the other day…

admin | September 3, 2009

So I decided instead to be Knotty.
I got some paracord (way over priced at a Mil Surplus store) and learned to make this: Monkey Fist
Pretty cool. I put a steel ball bearing in mine and use it to hit things hung it from my backpack. You learn too. Impress your kids, tie up your wife, [...]

Suprise your lawn mower is on fire!

admin | May 24, 2009

I didn’t get any pictures. I had to get the fire extinguisher. I did find this pic of someone else’s mower in flames though.
So here’s the skinny in case some of you are unlucky enough to had to mow sometime this summer.
All that dead grass that gets stuck between the mower body and the mower [...]

Now to fill the raised beds…we now need cow feces

admin | April 28, 2009

I made the wife some raised beds and now the time has come to fill them. I hunted around for some compost. I guess you can’t plant in straight compost, I learned that.  Which was a good thing, because the compost I wanted was $40 something a yard. So I got a 2:1 ration of [...]

More Man Crafting

admin | April 27, 2009

SURPRISE! Your car’s on fire!

admin | February 5, 2009

Well not really ON fire, but damned close.
The wife and I decided to take the bug for a drive, we wanted to go to the next town over and buy a roaster to cook a massive turkey I had butchered earlier that morning.
About four miles into the trip smoke starts coming from my fuse box, [...]