Let’s take a look at the list I made myself back in October or something.  I don’t think I’ve done very well. 

Install gutter apron (PRIORITY ONE, ASAP) DONE!!!
Finish landscaping wall some progress made
Transplant hostas and ferns  not even close
Make kindling bundles out of the sticks in the backyard  Does breaking some big sticks […]

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I know it’s still a little ways off, but I have a whole list of projects, some of which I’d like to complete before winter, some that MUST be completed.

Install gutter apron (PRIORITY ONE, ASAP)
Finish landscaping wall
Transplant hostas and ferns
Make kindling bundles out of the sticks in the backyard
Borrow a chainsaw and cut the logs […]

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Brandon and I finished putting up the fascia this weekend so the gutter guys could come put up the gutters this morning.
I primed the boards before we put them up.

Then we nailed them onto the ends of the rafters.

Brandon was a wiz at measuring and cutting the boards to fit. We ended up with […]

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First of all, I’d like to thank the members of the Des Moines Rehabbers Club who kindly offered me advice this morning.  I sent a rather panicked email to the mailing list this morning and got some really excellent responses.  It helps so much to have someone to turn to in a crisis like this! 
The flooring company […]

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We’ve hired a professional flooring company to install tile in our bathroom.  We worked with them for several weeks, stopped in at the store twice, and had several phone discussions in setting all this up.  He told us we’d need to have our clawfoot tub disconnected so they could move it out of the room, which […]

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