07 Nov A Rainy Morning in Northeast Seattle
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Garden Blog
18 Oct How To Remove a Stump
Greetings gentle readers, it's been a while since I've put index-finger-to-keyboard. [caption id="attachment_1226" align="alignnone" width="300"] Stump as big as all three of us combined[/caption] The directions are so elemental as to be off-putting. Step one: dig around tree stump. Step two: chop-away at roots. Step three: repeat steps one through...
08 Jun How to be a Parent to a High School Graduate
Step one: Freak out. It's really happening. That little kid you helped to get dressed, cleaned-up after, drove to soccer matches and play dates, adored from upon the cold metal seat of a folding chair at a middle school music performance, and...
09 Mar Another Stone Staircase
Nancy has a design aesthetic that employs the intersection of a respect for the randomness of nature, and the ordering of form that elementally simple utility demands. For example, she has us build a lot of staircases out of natural stone. Not every project has...
09 Mar Dry Stack Retaining Wall With Bench
Nancy designed a seating area that incorporated a six foot long bench into the retaining wall we were building. The bluestone slab we used for the seating surface was right at the lifting capacity of my mighty-mini Bobcat 323 excavator. It's very satisfying to make...