Brooke here: Sorry for the silence. I screwed up my hands but good over the weekend; they are slowly on the mend. I blame the ivy. There is simply too much of it. And I’ve learned there once was some sort of brick or poured clay patio under the area where the Vestigial Lawn will […]
Brooke here: There are the beginnings of a lawn. Wait, no, that’s not important. Let me rephrase… there is now an area where there is no ivy. At one point, the space between the house and the pool was a lawn. It really couldn’t have been anything but, as the ivy doesn’t have a firm […]
A: Six feet. Brooke here. This was me yesterday: There will be a couple of substantial blog posts this week, I think. The months of hurry-up-and-wait seem to be over and, thanks in large part to my buddy the skid loader up there, multiple projects are coming together at once. The fence holes are drilled, […]
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. 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. 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. 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. 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 […]
Flying by night 