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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 2

With the three plywood boxes completed last weekend it was time to focus on trimming them out. Since the boxes are to be painted, I am staying cheap and trimming the boxes out with pine.  Another trip to Lowes and I picked up two 1×6’s and three 1×2’s. The 1×6’s I will rip down to […]

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Tons of Turkeys 2012

We got to do another feel good thing this year and participated in the “Tons of Turkeys” food drive this past Saturday.  A local radio station, 96.5 The Mill, Hannaford’s Supermarkets, and the New Horizon Food Pantry come together every year for this food drive. This year we had to get two carts, one for […]

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Homemade Stratton Bed – Part 1

Well my little guy is well overdue for a “big boy” bed like his older brother.  This time rather than buy a bed with a steel bed frame, that is pretty blah, the wife decided I should build something. After kicking around several ideas and lots of googling we ended up on a design, which […]

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