8,495 photos taken in Des Moines, Iowa

  • Got the low voltage wire extensions shrink wrapped and ran through the wall...
  • I later realized that the slightly older versions of hue light strips had a coupler that wasn't h...
  • Brekkie
  • settling wort
  • Yeast in
  • Wort racked
  • Rackin time
  • Pepperoni, Mushroom, Honey, on wheat crust
  • Syrup
  • Tying off the grain
  • Grain in
  • light strip channel routed...
  • I bored a little container to conceal the annoying hardwired lightstrip coupler ... but I wound u...
  • Routing out a channel to conceal some strip lighting
  • Hangin at home
  • Germ at the new neighborhood bar
  • Lance Benz will not turn down on Cinco de Mayo
  • Cool truck alert
  • Kari puts up with a lot...
  • Ripping down a 3.25" thick, 50lb hunk of walnut on a contractor saw by myself felt a little sketc...
  • Side view of the mockup with the live edge
  • A quick mockup to see how the size felt... Maybe a little thick.
  • Adults... doing adult things.
  • Miller lite
  • Finally got a 1010 piece
  • Squaring this up with the palm router wasn't fast, but it worked!
  • My jointer wasn't quite big enough, so I made a little sled for my palm router to square things up
  • How I do dust collection on my miter saw
  • Chuck made us this stainless steel DM skyline. I threw an LED behind it for fun. It looks cool.
  • The transition down the stairs
  • Finished product
  • The hardest part
  • The bottom of the first flight
  • Looking into the living room from the landing
  • Looking down the stairs
  • A closeup of one of the corners
  • This is not a terrible way to spend an evening
  • Let's just snack for dinner
  • The top planed up
  • The bottom planed up
  • This generated a bit of sawdust... By the time this project was all said and done, this bag was c...
  • After a couple passes through the planer, I started to get a feel for how pretty the grain was.