/tags/diy/Recent content in Diy on Dabble or DieHugoen-usFri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-front-yard-project/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-front-yard-project/Taking advantage of a turf removal rebate to rip out 2,900 square feet of grass from the front yard and replace it with native plants, DG sidewalks, and responsible storm water management./posts/the-12ft-skeleton/Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-12ft-skeleton/A Home Depot impulse buy becomes a multi-year Halloween spectacle — with straw bales, a homegrown pumpkin patch, and a skeleton that stays up year-round./posts/the-tractor/Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-tractor/A software developer buys a half-acre lot and slowly, inevitably, acquires vintage garden tractors. It starts with ‘I kind of want one’ and ends with tractor rides through grape tunnels./posts/a-year-off-tech/Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000/posts/a-year-off-tech/A software engineer takes a sabbatical from tech and spends a year renovating a house from the ground up — learning to swing hammers, run network cable, and hide mistakes with caulk./posts/the-prusa-build/Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-prusa-build/Building a Prusa i3 MK3 from a kit — an IKEA-like assembly adventure that ends with the printer printing its own replacement parts. The moment my mind was blown upgrading from a $200 Monoprice Mini./posts/the-never-ending-rehab/Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000/posts/the-never-ending-rehab/Two houses, one sabbatical year of swinging hammers, and lessons learned in floors, kitchens, caulk, and lumber prices.