Tool Handle Bird Feeder
Made at 173 This is yet another scrap wood project made entirely from stuff left over from other pr…
Showing posts from 2020
Fixing the Old Bird Feeder
GB Shaw
Or Should I Say Squirrel Feeder? There lies within me a desire to have some things and watch them g…
Just in Case the Yankees Need Someone
GB Shaw
Waxing Poetic About My Lifetime Ball Glove This isn't exactly a story about a right proper proj…
The Halloween that Wasn't
GB Shaw
2020 Sucks It has sucked, it does suck and it will suck. That said, just know this - I have in no …
The Neighborhood Around 173
George
A Brief Tour Walking Linus the other day it dawned on me, I've never shown a tour of the neighb…
Carpeting the Stairway!
George
The Things We Do for Our Dogs! It's time to face facts - time marches on, and oh so much faster…
Das Beisler Haus: Erweiterung! Pt 2
GB Shaw
The First Floor It's been entirety too long, 9 months to be exact, since we last met to talk ab…
Evolution of the Front Stoop
George
A House 173 Megapost The front stoop has seen many changes over the decades. From simple cosmetic …
The Untold Story of Remodeling with a Beagle
GB Shaw
Bruegger and the Third Floor Methinks I've over-dramatized the title just a bit. This isn'…
Sometimes We Need a Distraction
GB Shaw
Fixing a Trash-Picked Watering Can When I sat to write this post I hesitated because the subject is…
The Birdhouses at 173
GB Shaw
Homes for Everyone! Birds have always been friends of 173! For years we've been happily surpris…
What Mighta Been - McDonald House
GB Shaw
Another House Viewed Before Buying 173 A few days ago I posted about the Tremont House , which was …
What Mighta Been - Tremont House
GB Shaw
One of the Houses Viewed Before Buying 173 Ever wonder what if? What if I took that other job, …
Reprint: So Long Birch Tree - I Hardly Knew Ye
GB Shaw
Revisiting the Post from August 11, 2013 It seems the old birch trees has come up several times la…
Made at 173: Small Stuff Storage
GB Shaw
There is No Scrap Wood, Just Pieces Not Yet Used Yeah, I didn't coin that phrase, there's a…
The Hallway Makeover Megapost
GB Shaw
It Took a Couple Years But It Got Done This is the megapost story comprised of about a dozen posts …
For Want of a Nail...the Kingdom was Lost
GB Shaw
Still Embroiled in Corona Virus - Just Little Details Getting Done But, the devil is in the details…
The Front Porch Interior Megapost
GB Shaw
The Slow, Almost Unintentional, Evolution of the Front Porch Interior I'd say most of the proje…
The Back Porch Megapost
GB Shaw
The Project that Launched House 173! When House 173 launched as 173 Our Old House on December 31, …
Megapost: Shingling the Back Porch (2011)
GB Shaw
What's a Megapost and why this one? Over the years I have frequently, aw heck, almost always po…
The Kobalt Shop Stool from Lowes for $69
GB Shaw
New Seating for the Workshop Maybe not in the past year (think pandemic) but I normally spend a goo…
Abstract Art from Everyday Moments
GB Shaw
Pics of Stuff that Coincidentally Make for a Bit of Abstract Art I'm certainly not a great phot…
Yardsticks and Door Frames
GB Shaw
An Oddity Here There's any number of oddities here at 173, and it's my guess that the same …
Fixing the Old Birdhouse
GB Shaw
Still Just Puttering Around the House While the news seems to indicate that we may be coming out of…
The New York Times Corona Virus Front Page
GB Shaw
There are Simply No Words for Some Things Memorial Day weekend is always a poignant time for me. I…
173 in Bloom - Spring 2020!
GB Shaw
April Showers Brought May Flowers! I'm a bit of a pluviophile, always have been. I know - it&#…
The Sky is an Infinite Movie to Me - kd lang
GB Shaw
Random Pictures by GB Shaw I was looking through some of my pictures and realized I had a number of…
Plane Sharpening and Just Plain Rambling
GB Shaw
Inexpensive Stanley Plane Sharpened Every now and again I remind everyone that the primary purpos…
Made at 173: Japanese Toolbox
GB Shaw
A New Toolbox from Scrapwood For me, the direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic really started on M…
COVID-19: The Great Pause
GB Shaw
Unprecedented, Unimaginable, Unwelcome I'm sorry to the artist who painted the picture above, …
Made at 173: Hand-Plane Rack
GB Shaw
Scrap Wood and Leftover Gerstner Green Felt Plane Rack This is one of those times when we're li…
812: The Home - The Living Room
GB Shaw
If the kitchen is the heart of a home, then the living room is its soul, at least at my childhood h…
Just an Interim Update
GB Shaw
Some Small Jobs It's been a few weeks since I posted anything, so I thought I'd take a coup…
The Accent Table Megapost!
GB Shaw
Another Project Made at 173 Welcome to the Accent Table Megapost combining both posts about the des…