Kenny's Blog

Starting sanding the original oak hardwood floors in our 1961 ranch house in Southaven we are getting ready to sell. I rented a floor sander from Home Depot and used 36, 60, then 100 grit sanding discs. Then I sanded...

Dinner at ACME Oyster Bar: it started raining when we went in. It was lightly raining when we came out. It was only about 10 blocks back to our hotel so we decided to don a couple of ponchos and...

Removing old mastic glue and chunks of old parquet flooring from the slab with an air chisel before installing new laminated floor in the den in our 1961 ranch house in Southaven. Ugh! Quite a chore! If you can get...

Filling a gap in hardwood floors between two rooms where I removed a wall 30 years ago. Back then, I filled it with 1" x 4" planks and covered it with carpet, but now it's time to refinish these floors...

I've got 28 tomato plants: The row on far right is 3 different varieties of heirlooms I started from some old seed I had on hand. Glad they germinated, but I still lost about half in the seedling stage. I've...

Gold Finches are visiting. There were two pair trying to eat at feeder, along with house finch, cardinals, and a junco all at one time. I couldn’t manage to get them all in a single picture....

Put up my homemade antenna on my shop and I'm getting 35 digital channels! Memphis, and MS public broadcasting from Oxford. Not too shabby! Here are extensive instructions for the Hoveman antenna I made:https://www.hamradio.me/antennas/superbowl-dtv-antenna.html This just shows the dimensions on...

Trying to repair my 47” Vizio TV. I think the main board is bad. It's about 8 years old but was a $1500 TV when I bought it. I can get a new main board for $130. I think a...

Finally finished the new sink base for our camper. Now I can get it back together....

I found this in my old shed while rebuilding the floor. I kind of feel like I dug up a WWII bomb in the back yard and now I'm stuck with it. Does anyone know how to dispose of one...