Brooke here: A quick post as we look for things to hurl… After last week’s discovery that we didn’t so much as have drains as we had stacks of plastic tubes and rocks, this morning Brown went around the rest of the property and yanked back the ivy to check whether the rest of the […]
Brooke here: Mike Holmes has probably reached a point in his career where he can walk into a room infested with flaming baby vampires, casually evaluate the corollary property damage caused by the fire, and make the call to the Canadian contractor who specializes in flaming baby vampire removal, all without batting a muscular eyelid. […]
Brooke here: It’s not. Weeding isn’t sexy. Sexy in the sensationalism way, I mean; who am I to judge if your fantasy world involves killing dandelions? But it’s not fake-sexy, it’s really not fake-sexy, and neither is housecleaning or raking or leaf-blowing or any of the hundreds of maintenance tasks that you have to do […]
Brooke here: I’ve been reluctant to write about this, as problems with the dog invariably reflect on the owner. However, there’s nothing quite like watching a pit bull snap up a yorkie terrier and shake it like a dead rabbit to put things in perspective.* More on this later. Zu developed some serious behavior issues […]
Brooke here: When ripping up the earth for the Vestigial Lawn, I kept finding scraps of some sort of tile. Here are three of the largest pieces: These differ from brick, obviously, and my best guess is that someone disposed of a pile of … somethings. I originally thought these might have come from an […]
Brooke here. This post might be slightly less coherent than usual, and you have my sincere apologies for the arm-waving and random spitting. Back in college, my friend Maureen was a chemistry major. She told me once, over lunch, that she probably shouldn’t be handling some of the chemicals she used in her experiments. One […]
Brooke here: While I was standing in the bird decoy store waiting for the SWAT team to leave — (Which is a rather ridiculous story about a dude who made a very poor judgement call by placing a geocache under the floor of an ice cream shop… while wearing camouflage… and failing to label the […]
Brooke here: Right before the cops showed up — (Which is a rather boring story about Brown and Steve photographing flowers with the homeowner’s permission and a paranoid neighbor calling the police on them, but when you get the opportunity to start a post with “right before the cops showed up,” you use it.) — […]
Brooke here: If I crane my neck in an uncomfortable way, I can see the pool from my office window; it no longer drives me to Irish up my tea (helpful hint: liquor-tea is an abomination). Since the pool is the single largest project we’ve accomplished thus far, I thought it would be nice […]
Brooke here: Mid-July and August set records on heat and general Oh God, so we called time out on the yardwork. I would have posted status updates but most of it would literally have been about watching grass grow, so let’s jump ahead to the end result. Click on the pictures for a better comparison: […]
Flying by night 