Operation Driveway pt. 3 – Plaster Cast Proof of Concepts

The next stage of the lizard paver process was to make some plaster proofs. I want to make an additional mold to double how fast I can make bricks. However, before I waste a bunch of concrete and mold mix, I need to make sure that the mold is producing “working” bricks. By “working” I mean that the bricks successfully interlock. I bought a couple bags of plaster...

Operation Driveway Part 2 – Designing the MC Escher Lizard Pavers

Now that the driveway was graded last weekend, the next step was to figure out what to put on top of it. Last entry, I listed off the quotes I was given for blacktop, a concrete slab, and crushed limestone – all pretty expensive and otherwise lame in my opinion. I was thinking paver stones would be more interesting. Pavers are neat. They have the strength and durability of...

Operation Driveway – Pt 1 – Moving Some Dirt

One of the main bits I have to get done on the house, is to install a driveway. When the flipper guy was remodeling the house he built a garage at the edge of the property, but no driveway leading to it from the paved easement leading into the property. I priced out some options and it wasn’t looking good. One estimate quoted me around $800 just to grade the portion of the yard...

New Furnitures

After living in my place for a week and half now, it is only starting to feel like home. Putting up the shower curtains helped. Putting all the boxes, etc in their semi-permanent home helped (still not quite fully unpacked).  Doing  my first load of laundry helped. However, there are various things that still make it not feel like home… and a big step was getting some furniture in the...

Home Ownership is Swell

I wanted to post really quickly about my house situation since people keep asking and I have not really been calling everyone and telling them and such… but yeah, my mortgage went through over the weekend and yesterday I closed on the house. Later that evening my new friend Toni came over to help me celebrate by drinking champagne and smoking cigars on my front steps. It was pretty...