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Photos taken in 2016

1,031 photos

  • She's very helpful at the hardware store
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  • WE HAVE A KITCHEN SINK AGAIN
  • This is gonna be a nice island
  • Gettin some countertops.
  • Today's lunch: dissecting Kari's new vanity drawer via table saw.
  • Mom's dog really enjoyed helping work on the house.
  • Bikin to lunch with Vicki and Mathew.
  • Chillin at the office. Waiting for the bar close Uber surge rate to drop below 6.0
  • Quesadilla time
  • Part time
  • Moonlight classic
  • Ready for the moonlight bike ride! Photo by Teresa Renaud Reynolds
  • Just installed my first dishwasher
  • Dishwasher install Saturday!
  • Gettin ready for a night ride
  • Celebrating the sale of our last house in our beautiful new one!
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  • Kari wanted an obscenely large island bar. Our quartz installer said we needed additional support... These should do, ha.
  • Built that shed. Planted those trees.
  • Found my beard trimmer
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  • Just found this in my phone.
  • Got this cool new office.
  • Something is/was in the tube.
  • Ceiling broox
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  • BUT I DON'T WANNA LEAVE
  • Hungry for another
  • Home.
  • Go time
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  • This may look like a box of super sweet computer components... but it's actually a box full of Legos.
  • I dunno which box to pack these in for the big move... Should I just wear them? I know... stupid question.
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  • Garth's new spot
  • Got the fence goin UP... on a Thursday.
  • New fence goin up
  • The kitchen cabinet beer bottle collection comes down.
  • Packin up! After 11.5 years, we're finally leaving good ol, suburban Ankeny.
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  • Garth's gateway to the new back yard
  • This is what OCD looks like
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  • Buildin this handrail
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  • The first section always takes the longest.
  • Settin posts
  • Setting the first posts for the banister
  • Newel post hardware
  • Had a great time hanging out and working with this lady this weekend. Happy Mother's Day, mom!
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  • Just walkin to my office with this nerf machine gun!
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  • Broke the handle on my broom... Had some hockey tape... Been a while since I've taped up a stick!
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  • DM Food truckin
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  • @broox as a Venmo model
  • Stairwell supplies
  • Picking up some oak
  • Buyin some oak for the handrail
  • Steps carpeted
  • I'm a can light installing MACHINE
  • Basement carpet goin in
  • Got internet
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  • Kewl
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  • Taking up more particle board subfloor
  • Deadwood
  • Some olds in Iowa city.
  • Goddamn, I look good.
  • I think don't is a uvula or something
  • Some nice art
  • Bloodys with Jon and Liz
  • Time to start this building these handrails
  • I thought about engineering the pipe to be removable with springs, but I wound up scrapping that idea because it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen... You know, as soon as my friends found out they were removable.
  • First appliance: installed.ish.
  • Takin apart the new cabinets. Fixing a couple more cases of "that's not my job"
  • Des Moines mural
  • "Not my job" - the drywaller
  • Painted
  • Let there be paint
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  • The Rio bar served (many of) us well
  • Cleanin out the Rio Drive tap lines for the last time...
  • This has been a good book case
  • Photo by BORN WILD
  • Lindsey gettin a good bloody Mary photo
  • The walk
  • Some rad girls I know
  • Walk time
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  • Party on, Wayne
  • Headin to the walk
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  • "You look Jewish/Amish/Mormon" - people today
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