Brooke here: I’m sure it’s possible to make some not-so-witty political commentary about waiting three weeks for Dig Safe to come out and check our property for the waterline, then one call to a plumber had the matter resolved in an hour, but let’s not take cheap shots at people who work in a thankless […]
Brooke here: The rough green snake Brown found in our front yard.* It was very dear. We are unable to work on any of our large projects. We have no idea when the pool guys are going to start work on this fetid mosquito hole in our back yard — there are leeches in there, […]
Brooke here. After the bat and the black widow and the snakes, I was sure we were past creepy animal posts but there’s something in the back yard that clicks like the freaking Predator so don’t be surprised if there are news reports about my headless skinned corpse. Well, it’s okay to be a little […]
Brooke here. What with the bat and the black widow, at this rate I’m terrified to think of what the next animal-related post might be about: Not that I should complain, what with Louisiana and Mississippi being underwater, but we’ve had quite a lot of rain over the last few weeks. It’s hindered most of […]
Brooke here. The general consensus is that I have killed a black widow with my mighty shoulder. I was filling in the last two stairs with gravel, and I happened to look down at the bag I had just moved from Point A to Point B. It was… yes. That. I called Brown and left […]
Brooke here: After several rain delays the stairs are all but done, so there will be pictures of those tomorrow. Today, though, is a picture of the bat who has taken up residence in the recycling. We keep the recycling outside because of the inestimable powers of Puppy Destruction! I went to drop a load […]
Brooke here: Remember these? And now: Five stairs done, and this weekend was spent building the last two frames. The sixth is identical to these first five frames but the hill has run out of rise so the seventh is a double-length doozy, more of a short sidewalk than a stair. We’re feeling good […]
Brooke here. In the previous post, I described the garden stairs with broad strokes of the brush. Now let’s go over some of those fine fiddly bits which are so critical in those paintings of wide-eyed fluffy kittens. These images are all of the installation of the third frame, so at the time these pictures […]
Brooke here. This post has a lot of pictures but the garden stairs have been dominating the home projects since the trees came down, so that’s okay. Want to see what our garden stairs used to look like? Nope, those are the old stairs. Want a closeup? Need to get closer? We can do that, […]
Brooke here: As I wandered around the yard this past Thursday night, I kept thinking If we had to sell our house right now, no one would buy it. This is horrible. It looks like a disaster area. If something happens and we had to move, we are so screwed. Gloomy thoughts, I know, but […]
Flying by night 