Mark’s blog
So I’m on an out-of-command-center excursion on an eat-work mission and am typing this in a local diner. There’s a guy here (every diner has…
I’m not much for non-fiction war stories. While I can suspend my disbelief and GI-Joe-it for a while for fictional films, the actual reality of…
So good news: Our old house/new roof installation gets installed as planned. We take a lame-o and withering 3-tab shingle roof and upgrade to a…
So here’s one from the “Couldn’t make it up if I tried” Department—and yet another reason why a tool pouch without a Hyde multi-tool in…
Tooling Up in Joplin’s Cunningham Park with Extreme Makeover. It took 10,000 volunteers and multiple builders to make Extreme Makeover: Home Edition‘s 200th—and final—episode a…
Old house remodeling is often half challenge, half opportunity–and always a whole lotta work. And when opportunity knocks in an old house renovation, knock often…
I spend a lot of my time on a home improvement project trying to be efficient, trying to save steps so I can do my…
You’re going to love this. Here is a tool review of a brand new tool that I’ve had in my pouch for XX years…I mean…
I still have sap on my hands from making the MyFixitUpLife “tree.” I borrowed an idea from timberframers who nail a tree branch to the…
Question: Here come the holidays and at my house that means lots of overnight family and guests, meals — and lots dishwasher loads and showers….
After a big snowstorm I have to admit, I kind of like to get out there and get after it. There’s more than a little…
The Snow Wovel—or walking snow shovel—is a contraption of sorts. It looks like a combination between an old fashioned bicycle with the huge front wheel,…
