My little book.

This is my brains external hard drive, it fits into my pocket and is one of three items that are pushed into my trouser pockets every day. Ear plugs, Atlas Nitrile gloves, and my book. I have often thought it would be fun to take a photo of a page from my book and then accompany that with more photos and a short explanation connecting those photos to the list from the book. This page doesn't have a date but I know from surrounding pages that this was the first week of March 2015.

one of many little books

On the right is instructions I wrote down from a website by Antique Gas Stoves that explains how to remove the Oven Control Knob on our O'Keefe and Merrit cook stove and range. This is our second stove by this company and we are looking forward to using it in our home that we have been working on since June of 2006.

broken oven control knob

This TO DO list is just before a town day. I hadn't taken the truck to town in several months and recently I had to replace the battery. I purchased a new battery but still haven't installed it because I had robbed the battery from the Belvedere when the old battery stopped holding a charge.

1962 Plymouth Belvedere

The Cut List for plywood is for two kitchens worth of drawers made with Baltic Birch plywood, a kitchen sink cabinet for Ruthie and countertop material that gets covered with zinc.

Sink cabinet to replace.

The stools (or sills) are from the house, they have been covered by blue tape for at least a year to protect them from paint. Underneath the tape they were pretty funky, water stained and covered with dust, bird shit and bug droppings. I have know idea how the tape even stuck.

Window Stools Finished

Our water comes from a small pond dug by the old timers with  a rock wall stacked around it that I discovered last summer when I decided to pull plants out around the perimeter to enlarge the waters storage area. The 12 volt low flow pump sucks a lot of sediment in the summer when the pond can't keep up with the 1.8 gallons per minute suck of the pump. Becky discovered a neat drop down filter that is easy to clean out by just closing a valve after the filter and opening a valve on the bottom of the filter cartridge. This flushes out the sediment trapped in the filter and the filter is made of stainless steel. It is installed now but I haven't tried it yet, we aren't using much water at the house. However we hope to be moving in before summer, we only need to get our kitchen functioning. It is getting close, cabinet carcasses are installed and ready for the zinc. For plumbing we only need to plumb the gas line and get the old stove working.

Flush Down Filter