Dispatches
Every week, one entry. Something from the work, something from the house, and something we learned — usually the hard way.
This is a column, not a feed. Nobody needs another stream. We write it the same week it happens, before we know how it turns out, which is the only honest way to do it.
The week we owned itOn Friday, Ryan drove to the shop to pick up a core bit so he could go drill a hole in a finished granite countertop.Read the dispatch 
The week we had to buy a year of materialOur supplier called on a Tuesday, from Salt Lake City, to say prices were going up twenty-five percent.Read the dispatch