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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 4

Not much action this week on the Stratton Bed, because work has been keeping me fairly busy.  I did learn one thing about painting though.  Red is a tough color to paint!  I just completed the 3rd coat of red inside the boxes and may need a 4th coat for perfection. In addition to painting […]

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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 3

Well after hitting the boxes and tops with 60-grit, 100-grit, and 150-grit sand paper it’s is safe to say that my garage was covered in a good layer of pine dust!  After brushing the dust off of the boxes and hitting them with a shop vac it was time to move the boxes into the […]

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Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving with my parents and my younger brother in Maine.  As always it was a great time preparing for the trip and an even better time with the family. We spent the day before rushing to make several food items to take with us.  These included cinnamon buns, herbed bread (Pain […]

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