I am what you can call a lazy blogger. I haven't posted in about a year, I will not offer up a carefully edited selection of excuses, I just never seem to get here often enough. That said I will get on with some of the latest projects we have or are about to undertake on our crumbling beauty. My husband rebuilt our basement entry this fall, the old entry had collapsed so we had a pit that you crawled into to gain access to the nether regions of our house. The new entrance is in one word solid. He constructed it with used railway ties, huge spikes, and some rebar for good measure. The finished product is lovely and practical and now I can easily navigate myself down to the under-ground portion of our house.