The dpk-owning-a-house experiment has come to an end. Bought in a seller’s market, and sold in a buyer’s market, and I still came out ahead. Plus, I left the house in better shape than it was when I bought it. Everybody wins! Especially the excise tax board, sheesh.

Yep, I’m moving to Ballard. I’ve decided I’m going to rent the house out for a year, and see how that goes. I think it’s a fine house, the location just doesn’t work for me any more.
The place in Ballard is about 5 miles from work. It’s freshly updated inside, and it looks like it’s [...]

So far I’ve managed to a) destroy my front lawn and b) spill part of a load on top of the Bobcat itself.
Turning these things is a bit tricky. They have really, really knobby tires of course, and you drive them like a tank (with one lever for the left side and one for the [...]

I’m still working on that yard project I started in May. In my sort-of defense I spent most of that time not working on the project. I decided to take this entire week off to “finish” it, or at least complete enough of it, and do whatever else is necessary to make it appear finished.
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I’m a week late for Native Plant Appreciation Week (404 now for some inexplicable reason), but I am hoping I can still participate, with my minor contribution:

Left to right, that is generic bark (boring), Physocarpus Opulifolius - Gold’s Common, and Ribes Sanguineum Alba - White Flowering Currant. I’m going to plant these in the front [...]

I just finished installing and setting up Gallery (unfortunately hosted by Sourceforge), to host images taken of my house at closing, and images taken after much of the interior was repainted.

The color is coming in great. Of course, this photo, taken from my camera phone, doesn’t do a good job of showing the difference between old and new. I expect to finish up the second coat in the entryway today. Tomorrow, I’ll be pulling up all of the masking. Then it’s off to the bedrooms. [...]

This is all gonna take a while, heh.

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