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: 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 […]
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: 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 […]
Brooke here. The weekend will be devoted to ivy removal and upholstering some cushions in a fairly nifty window seat I have yet to mention, but today is a brief post about Zu. We have been slightly concerned about his health. At five and a half months, he tops the scale at 43 pounds, which […]
Brooke here. From today’s Devil’s Panties… For anyone who doesn’t know, Internet Famous is exactly like being famous in real life except no one knows who you are, you get nothing from it, and it lasts exactly as long as you can stay witty or cute. Since Zu is almost six months old and his […]
Alternate title: Why you should neuter your dogs, or at the very least provide them with large stuffed animals. Brooke here. Zu is at the vet’s again, but this time for that oh-so-necessary elective surgery. It was probably overdue. The poor little guy had no idea what to do with his erections. He’d lay on […]
Flying by night 