Tuesday, June 3, 2014

What do you do when you bite off more than you can chew?

Well duh.  You learn to chew more.
My wife is fantastic.  She's a horticultural savant, a great cook, a wine lover, a talented artist and... a baby maker!  I'm a pretty good cook but she's got a monopoly on the rest of those talents at our house.  In the last twelve months, we've gotten married, gotten knocked up, and bought a house on a couple acres.  In that order and all on purpose!

Yep.  We bit off way more than we can chew so the idea with this blog is to document my adventures in DIY, Dadding, and a dozen other adventures.  2.5 acres with a goat barn, a few outbuildings in varied states of disrepair, 3 months to baby, a house built in the 60s sold to us halfway through a remodel, two cars around 15 years old, three cats, two big dogs, a wife who loves to cook and garden, and a me who loves to tinker, meddle and use power tools...  All of those add up to having LOTS to do.
To give you an idea...

Build a large dog-resistant garden (DONE!)
Build a new dog-resistant fence (In progress)
Remodel two kitchens
Build a bitchin Fan Cave/Entertainment room (GO HAWKS!)
Gut and rebuild a 50-year old garage
Add a proper shop behind the garage
Fix a riding mower (Done/Ongoing)
Renovate the master bedroom (create a closet space)
Renovate the master bath
Renovate the Fan Cave bathroom
Turn a spare room into a nursery
Childproof all the things
Turn one outbuilding into a greenhouse
Get power and water to the greenhouse
Build a rain catchment system
Learn to raise goats
Learn to bow hunt
Learn to dress a deer
Make sure my kids(s) can do most of this stuff
Do a transmission and engine rebuild on a Jeep XJ

And this is just what I can remember while sitting here at my desk. At work.  As an IT nerd.

Let's DO THIS!

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