Brooke here. Last Monday night, a tree tried to crush us. I have a tidy post written up about it but it won’t be posted until (if) the insurance is finalized. Caveat: our insurance company is awesome, and the claims adjuster they sent out was very helpful and recognized what whats were what-what. But for […]
Brooke here. We made less progress on the stairs than expected. 6″x6″x8′ timber is heavy. Go figure. And I smacked my hand with a mallet. And there was a tremendous storm last night where we lost some very large branches which need to be cleaned up… And, and, and… And it’s National Poetry Month! It […]
Brooke here. Talk about your saucy titles. It is, however, nothing but product promotion for a dog toy. A little backstory first. We took care of my parents’ dog for two years. Two very long… anyhow, he was a grea… goo… nic… dog but he was not all that bright. And he had traits. Some […]
Brooke here. As I write this, I am waiting on some fellow who responded to a Craigslist auction to come and pick up Zu’s puppy pen. Zu has outgrown it and it is no longer useful (although technically it wasn’t useful by the second day when Zu realized he could scale the sides like a […]
Brooke here: Progress is satisfying. Plus, the potentially scandalous tiles are once again tucked away for safety. We think of the children. One of the many wonderful features in the main room is the window seat. More than seven feet long and two feet wide, the window seat is large enough to qualify as a […]
Brooke here. Sorry for the silence; we’ve had a family loss to attend to. But we’ve still been working, so let’s get away from the ivy: Remember the big pile o’ bricks left over from removing the pool patio? No? Okay, let’s do a quick recap. Our heroes fools bought a house with a […]
Brooke here: If you visit the blog and there are no status updates (and this is retrospectively applied to the past week), it’s because we are pulling ivy and I have run out of adorable cutsy comments about this plant. Removing ivy is a sucky process made all the more suckier as we have other […]
Brooke here: After the last two weekends of pulling ivy, I’m fairly positive Lovecraft was nothing but a gardener with a poor imagination and a good friend who told him to add teeth and tentacles. This is a dark and malicious plant. We have a pile of ivy roots taller than the dogs and we […]
Brooke here: I have discovered landscaping brushes for Photoshop. This post is more of a public service warning than a real status update, so be aware I’ll be going quite mad with these tools over the next few weeks. We needed a schematic to decide how the path should be laid out and where the […]
Brooke here: A friend who is an excellent seamstress* is making us some new cushions for a window seat, and she took the (six-decades-old and nasty as a cat’s box) existing cushions with her. The bare surface of the window seat is now exposed, and we are for the first time looking at the lovely […]
Flying by night 