David’s Ramblings

The ranch house hasn’t been painted since ‘97, that’s a long time to be out in the scorching Texas sun and it shows. After power washing off the old paint flakes I’m starting to repaint… I’m changing the colours too… I’ll be posting the photos on the Peace Place Ranch blog.
Here’s one teaser photo:

I’ve added a rainwater collecting page. Out here in Texas Hill Country we get our water from wells drilled in the limestone down to the Edwards Aquifer. Unfortunately that means a great depth (my well is 650 feet) and very hard mineralized water. So you need a softener and they don’t work all that well […]

I was looking for some tracks of Juanes, a favorite performer of mine and I came across a few mas artistas Columbianos… some of them are really good! Me gustas mucho!
So far Andrea Echeverri and her song A Eme O is my favorite…

But Ekhymosis and La Tierra is very good… but Juanes was their lead […]

I picked up the new fridge and move the old one to the garage. I listed it on craigslist and it was sold in 4 hours… grocery money!
The new fridge certainly changes the look of the kitchen, for the better. Plus it’s counter depth and useful! I love the change. Here’s the old fridge coming […]

To finish off the kitchen I’ve been looking for refrigerator. It’s one of those design decisions you see most often in industry; why does a fridge stick out 5-9 inches beyond the counter? It’s like hot dogs 12 to a package and bun 8 to a package… can’t these people think for a tiny bit […]