Brooke here. I just realized I haven’t complained about ivy lately. Let me do that before I go back to the bathroom posts. It’s that odd temperature that’s too cold to do any serious landscaping but too warm to sit inside all day, so I’ve been yanking ivy. February is ideal for pulling ivy in […]
Brooke here. When we had the trees removed, we also had the stumps ground down. We’re trying to stop the basement from flooding, and to do that we need to grade the front lawn, and to do that we need to bring in two dump trucks full of dirt, and to do that we need […]
Hey all, happy 2013. I know it’s been quiet around here. Lately, life has been very much all about the no. But the good part about a new year is the ability to shake off the bad and move forward, so let’s do that. And it’s not as though the home renovations stopped along with […]
Brooke here: We now have a This. It has been a terrible couple of weeks over here, with family and dog issues dominating most of our daily shenanigans. We’ve been sneaking in some repairs whenever possible, and have finally hung the gates. We need to add the latch, the hinge hardware still needs some (very […]
Brooke here. The hinges are in. Continuing the spirit of over-engineering the duck (quack) out of the fence, I found some black “heavy duty strap hinges” online. We purchased six; there are four 12″ hinges for the top and bottom, and two 5″ hinges for the center. I was rather grumpy with the shipping costs, […]
Brooke here: As of this time last week, the trash can contained: (1) one bag of garbage; (2) a dead possum which had drowned in the pool; and (3) the last of the orange construction barrier we’ve had up in place of a real fence. Because we now have a This: This is a progress […]
Brooke here. I took a trip out to Portland for a couple of weeks to visit family. The residential areas of Portland are filled with adorable Arts and Crafts-style bungalows painted up like rainbows, mainly, as my sister says, as the bright colors keep people from chewing through their wrists because it never stops raining. […]
Brooke here: Remember a few weeks ago when I picked through some stone scraps? The stone was delivered today. The back yard has a hard slope. We’ve been planning to put a retaining wall between the section where the garden stairs end and the Vestigial Lawn begins. The retaining wall is not really a priority, […]
Brooke here. A few weeks ago, we received notification from the city that our Crazy Poet Disasterhouse had been reappraised at much more than we had paid for it. I floated on a cloud for about three days, thinking our hard work had finally paid off (hey, I don’t know how the government does this […]
Brooke here. You would not believe the month we’ve just had. Argh. So, spring. Somehow it just happened in spite of our hectic schedules, and we must either sprint to keep up or watch it pass us by again. Sprinting it is. If you remember the most recent landscaping post from last November, Brown and […]
Flying by night 