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My First Front Door Designs

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | February 20, 2010

Years ago … Scratch that. Decades ago I read several books about building energy efficient homes. One of the authors said that if you don’t do anything else on your home yourself, you need to build your own front door. This led me to buy another book all about doors. Your front door is your greeting [...]

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New Front Door Design

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | March 11, 2009

This house is older than our former house and has an even smaller front door. The existing door is OK looking, but is starting to leak a bit. It is thin and does not have insulated glass. It opens into the bottom of the stairs. There is no point in leaving it open and having [...]

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Thursday was reading night.

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | March 10, 2009

In our home, when I was growing up, Thursday night was reading night. This was never, ever announced or even mentioned. It was never enforced. None of us kids were even aware of it. However, it was intentional, consistent and disciplined. My mom told me about it when I was in college. My folks wanted [...]

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He fixed a flat and served mankind.

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | March 9, 2009

The first time I helped to change a flat tire was when I was not yet ten years old. The whole family was in the station wagon on a lonely two lane road in the middle of Minnesota, on our way to a lake. A car was stopped on the side of the road with [...]

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Craftsman Stained Glass & Lead

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | February 20, 2009

I tend to customize things to make them my own: like the Mercedes-Benz hood ornament and trunk star on my Scion xB. The windows I am installing are plain and undivided. We like them, because they let in lots of  light, but they are plain. I decided to give them a craftsman touch. Craftsman style [...]

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Aspiring Artist

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 23, 2008

  Yesterday, I painted and mounted this cross on our barn. I don’t let the fact that I have next to no artistic talent stop me from attempting to make beautiful things with paint. This cross was originally made last year as a temporary marker for Ressom Asfaha’s grave. Memory eternal! Our priests had been [...]

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Are Lawns Green?

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 12, 2008

From the time I was six until I was twenty, we lived in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Golden Valley is a suburb of Minneapolis. In the 1960′s and 1970′s, it was home to General Mills, Honeywell’s MIRV control plant (making it the #16 strategic nuclear target for the Russians), Carl Sandburg Junior High (right across the [...]

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Screens and Circling the Square

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 11, 2008

As promised, I made and installed the screen on Saturday. I found a helpful person at Home Depot who actually listened to my description of what I wanted for a track for the screens and knew where the channel aluminum was. I say I made the screen, but I should add, it isn’t pretty. It [...]

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Installed my first Window Sash Replacement Kit

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 8, 2008

The sash kit came in two boxes. I had failed to specify low-E, argon glass, and I didn’t order it exterior primed, but it came with all of those options. I am not complaining. The instructions were thorough, with the exception of trimming the excess off the foam strips. I had to move both the [...]

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“If you can read, you can cook.”

By Cranford Joseph Coulter | August 7, 2008

My mom was a great cook. When anyone would compliment her cooking, especially one of her new, more adventurous dishes, she would reply, “If you can read, you can cook.” Both of my parents taught the four of us kids that if we could read, we could do just about anything we set our minds [...]

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