Brooke here: This past week has been puppy-intensive with minimal sleep, so I hope you don’t mind some pictures of the puppy. Zu came from sketchy-ish circumstances. He is between 6 to 10 weeks: the people who gave him to us said he was 6 weeks at the time we took him, but the vet […]
Brooke here: Another post about dogs, mainly as we have done very little on the house this week. Brown will be posting soon-ish, I think, which is good as right now he is my Canadian Husband. He does exist, I swear! You’ll like him. But we did get another dog. Meet Hanamizu. Which translates to […]
Brooke here: Last weekend, I sat in the garden of the Orange County Social Club and talked with a very pleasant woman who keeps goats. Based on her experience with the finer points of keeping goats, the whimsy of the Rent-a-Goat ivy management option has wandered off down the road, bell a-ringin’. I described the […]
Brooke here: This post has very little to do with home repairs and might be an introduction to the wholesale destruction of both property and mental health. Everybody loves their dog. Everybody thinks their dog is the world’s greatest. Heck, everyone has iron-clad proof their dog is the Best Dog Ever. So let’s accept that […]
Brooke here: So there’s the wisteria, and then there’s the ivy. The wisteria is a nigh-invulnerable infestation similar to a b-movie villain… dastardly, nefarious, and numerous, but eventually beaten to submission. Sure, it pops back up for the sequel (Wisteria on a Plane: Death Smells Fantastic) but it can and will be beaten. And then […]
Brooke here: Now that most of the boxes are unpacked and it’s cool enough to work outside, we’ve thrown everything into basic landscaping. The drainage project I mentioned in an earlier post was pushed back to allow for another few passes with the chainsaw, so the dirt will arrive sometime mid-week. In the meantime, we’ve […]
Brooke here: I’ve heard it said that landscaping is two steps backward for every one step forward, but I’d bump that up to a decent-paced skip to be safe. We have almost two acres of land, and these were allowed to go all but fallow for a couple of decades. As we are dead-center on […]
Brooke here: Work progresses accordingly, but not in any way that makes it appear as though we are actually doing anything at all. I’ve been reluctant to post for fear that it seems we’re just lying about doing our due diligence as DIYers. For example, we just finished the first round of Chainsawaganza. The “before” […]
Brooke here: Brown was sick over the weekend, so we had to postpone Chainsawaganza. In the meantime, I did some projects on the Neverending List of Things to Do that didn’t require heavy lifting. One such project was repainting a metal bedframe. We bought the bedframe new last year and we quite like the overall […]
Crazy lady finds giant spider. Brown recluse? Yes? No?
Flying by night 