All the Wrong Tools (Page 3)

Sheep

Creatures big and small

Some animals from the “farm.”

Sauna

Building a sauna door

Building a cedar door with a window for a backyard wood-fired sauna.

building

Building a garden gate

We had dogs escaping from our house because we couldn't keep doors shut. I decided we needed to add a gate to the porch outside the house so that even if the front door opened, the dogs wouldn't run into the yard, or worse, to the

Sheep

Going to the butcher

We’re going to the butcher on November 10 for the first time since we started keeping sheep in the summer of 2024. We’re all processing this a little bit different, but for me, it helps me establish in my own mind that I’m doing this as a

diy

Making a whole-wall bookshelf

After watching someone use a radial arm saw on a project, my boys and I picked up an old one on Craigslist for $60. I put a dado blade in it (another $60) to cut grooves in vertical boards for a wall-sized bookshelf. Radial saws are as frightening as they

Uncategorized

Building an open-shelf kitchen

We took out and re-purposed the (high-quality) closed wooden cabinets in our kitchen and replaced them with homemade metal brackets and white oak shelves. We also added stick-on wallpaper we discovered at our favorite restaurant in Duluth, Minnesota. My brothers bought me a Telescoping Handle Compact Bender from a discount