About two weeks ago my wife and I were sitting in our dining room when I noticed that one of our 45 year old original baseboards was cracked. I should have kept quiet, but I mumbled to myself, “Hmm, I guess I should replace that baseboard…”

The first pyramid was built when the Pharaoh’s wife asked for a stone bench to be moved ‘a little to the left.’ The rest is history…My wife quickly replied, “If you’re going …

Last weekend I found myself standing outside in the pouring rain at 10 o’clock at night while I was trying to spread down some grass seed in hopes of taking advantage of the wet weather in a desperate attempt to give my lawn a jump start for the spring.

Grass!I realized as I stood out there that maybe, just maybe, I’m going a little too far with trying to get my lawn to be green and thick this year. I’m …

This is about my recent adventure in putting together a set of outside stairs on the side of my house. This is not a how-to article, but rather, an article about what not to do.

We had a new sliding glass door put into our house a few weeks ago, but we haven’t been able to use it because the door is three feet off the ground and exits out over a flowerbed. Instead of continually walking outside and plunging into the petunias I decided to save some money and build a set of stairs myself. Things …