Gerald and Kathy's Great House Building Adventure

After years of remodeling existing houses, we decided the economy provided the right opportunity to build a house from scratch. So we bought 18 acres in Kirkland, Arizona, to build our dream getaway. Here we share our adventures, one painful step at a time.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Winter garden

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 The Yarnell Community Garden Project decided for the first time to try a winter garden. So we constructed hoop houses to protect the plan...

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

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 Gerald make a list of all the projects that remained undone and tackled the projects one by one. There was a bit of molding in the kitche...

Road trip!

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 In the fall, Gerald's high-school buddy, John Anderson, and his wife, Vicki, came to visit.  They spent a couple of days at the ra...

One flue over the cuckoo's nest

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 After four-plus years of burning construction scrap and pinyon pine, we thought it would be a good idea to get a chimney sweep out. The o...

On the beam

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With Gerald's manager back to work leaving us more time at home, we, too, got back to work... on the house. One of the projects that h...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Stocking up for Winter

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 Fall was definitely upon us, with daytime temps in the mid-70s and nighttime temps in the 50s, which put us in mind to start preparing fo...

Progress on the Homes Front

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 Coming home, one day, we saw these giant tracks in the road. We knew it was a monster piece of equipment that could leave tracks like thi...
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Gerald and Kathy
Gerald is an inveterate tinkerer and untreated DIY network addict. Now in his 60s, he has remodeled every house he ever owned. Kathy is a freelance writer and Gerald's reluctant sidekick. She indulges him because it makes him happy, because he happens to be good at it, and because it always works out well in the end.
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