The screen never fit right in our dining room window, so I figured we should replace it. Read more for the photos.
Archive for the ‘diy’ Category
CBG #2
Ok, so I promised a write up about building my second Cigar Box Guitar. I have a feeling it’s going to go a bit long so I may have to split it up into a couple of updates. But hey, at least that will give me an excuse to keep updates coming for [...]
One more time
Ok, I’m still working on the article about building CBG#2:
But it’s the last day of the contest so I’ve got to try one more entry:
How to build a cigar box guitar – Free Plans at www.cigarboxnation.com.
New Skill
Ok, I know I’ve promised a couple of people a weekend update. It’s going to be a bit longer…it’s really not worth the wait…but I don’t have ANY photos to go with it. And since the whole point of the weekend was photography that just doesn’t seem right. The chemicals are cooling right now so [...]
Busy weekend
01 Sep 2008 at 22:06
jhitesma
camera, darkroom, diy, film, house, new house, paint, painting, photography, projects, weather, weekend, wind, yuma
It’s been a weekend that could have easily supported a blog post a day. But I’m lazy and I really was hoping to get a new photo or two printed before posting…but other things happened and I still haven’t made any new prints. So here’s the updates instead!
This one will be long with a lot [...]
Being right ain’t no fun sometimes.
29 Aug 2008 at 15:28
jhitesma
diy, electronics, house, projects, radio, sdr, softrock, weather, weekend, wind, yuma
Yeah, I admit I like being right. Most of the time. But sometimes I really wish I wasn’t right about something. Like the prediction I made when we bought this house that “Those carport tarps won’t last a year” despite the sellers assurance that “They have a 7 year warranty and are only a year [...]
More time in the dark
28 Aug 2008 at 12:14
jhitesma
camera, darkroom, diy, film, house, new house, photography, projects, yuma
Still no safelight so I get frustrated quickly when printing, but that should be rectified soon. Even so I scraped an hour or so out of my schedule to try and crank out another print or two last night. Results were not quite what I had hoped for:
New negs
Well, with the darkroom functional for printing – though annoying to use without a safelight – this weekend Amy and I decided to work on the other half of the image and expose some film.
Read on for details!
Lootin’ the corpse
So, less than a month between updates – maybe I’m getting better at this after my downward slide. Before I get to the reason for the title though a few “Off-topic” updates. I’ve been miserable sick the past week. Summer colds are bad enough in temperate weather…but when it’s over 100 out and you’ve got [...]
You would think….
Living in one of the best areas for solar power in the entire country you would think I’d have better luck with said technology. But no, that’s not the case. Shortly after Amy and I moved into our new house we bought a set of solar path lights using one of the many gift cards [...]