For some reason, little girls who are seriously into horses like to pretend that they’re horses. I really don’t know why this is, but all the girls who ride with my daughter spend hours before and after their lessons running and jumping over child-sized jumps. They trot, they canter, and the mak[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Carpentry’
July 27th, 2009 - 10:08 pm § in Handyman
Treehouse!
I spent the first two weeks of July—half of my summer vacation—building this new toy for the kids. While working on it, I kept on calling it “Falling Children by Frank Lloyd Wrong,” but now that it’s finished I’m pretty happy with it. I think that the Zimmermonkeys are, too.[...]
July 16th, 2008 - 10:31 pm § in Uncategorized
Do-It-Yourselfer?
Really. It says so right on my “About” page. I know that I’ve been blogging pretty much exclusively about my tech hassles at work, but I also do other things too. Not much, to be sure, but still… Anyhow, last summer I built a bedroom in our basement for my father-in-law. (It’s actually his[...]