The path to a half ton patch starts here!

We all have hopes of growing a half ton pumpkin, deaming out patch a half ton patch. Here are a few new additions to try and Maloney a reality...

(The scientist analysis)

(The amendments)

(Summary)

(Adding some heat)

(Heating cables in the ground, hoop house up, and lights up)

(These beauties are my hope for the half Ton patch)

Garage workshop & organization

Now that the main stuff in the garage is complete I'm focussing on the little things. I built me some work benches in the shop area. And I also built a few shelves and a snowboard rack.

(Full of stuff but this will be my little shop area)

(I put this one on rollers and finished the top with a steel plate.)

(Cad model of the shelves, workbenches, & snowboard rack.)

(Snowboard rack)

(Snowboard rack and shelves)

(Covering electrical to make shelves for kids)

(Cad model of kids shelves)

2014 Review

Let's Recap this year's projects. The biggest of them all has been the Garage addition. In 2013 we started it and got it all framed and shingled just in time for winter. So this year we put on new siding, I hired out that part. Then I got it all wired up, that included the 6 outlets designated to Christmas (big thanks to my Friend and neighbor Dayv Van Orman for helping me get power from the main box to a new box in the garage.)  We tore down the Bungalo hut and build a deck. I constructed a new porch cover.  Pumpkin season provided an opportunity to grow a personal and Clay Maker best Pumpkin this year @ 847lbs. There was even a world record pumpkin rowing attempt make at sugar house pond ( I did 100M in 3:15, 1:35 off the new record pace, his pumpkin was 400lbs lighter than mine). We won the bike decorating contacts at Antelope by moonlight. I finished my first Mini-dualathlon,  tag teaming it with my sister Brenda. A year at the Evans wouldn't be Complete without adding more than 4,000 lights to our Christmas display! Oh, and this was almost the year I bought my first Tailgating buss... 

Christmas Break 2014 Projects

Every year for Work I get the week after Christmas off to relax and recharge for the final push as our fiscal year ends January 31st. Every year I plan a  little project, this year was to make play room for the girls. The room is under the front door landing and you enter it from Kenzie's room. Prior to my garage it was used as storage for my Christmas decorations. I also worked some more on the garage. I built some shelves for the Attic for our new blowmold collection we bought this year. We must have purchased over 50 this year thanks to our Michigan trip and eBay. I also did some more wiring of the electrical. Check them out...

(Had to build a wall and insulate it.)

(Built a header and remove to wall studs so we could access a little more storage under the stairs.)

(Even put in a can light so we wouldn't bunk our heads.)

(Just a little bit of dust!)

(i found some pink and surprised Kenzie with one pink wall. She was very excited!)  

(I even put pad and carpet in it.)

(I know have 45 Liner feet of shelving in the attic for Holiday decorations and another 24 for other storage. I've got room for 24 more feet once I finish the drywall on the house side.)