Brooke here. Let’s play a quick little game! What is the worst short phrase you can think of to describe finding a black widow? I’m off to go freak out, and then maybe I’ll spend the afternoon burning down my backyard. p.s.: I cannot believe I have needed to use the black widow tag in […]
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. About two weeks ago, Zu and I were leaving our driveway to go on a walk when an old beater truck pulled up. The passenger, a woman in her mid-sixties whom I had never met, got out and went straight for Zu. She started petting his head and we made small talk for […]
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. Back from traveling, maintenance and home posts resume. Me (on phone with my mom): Stuff stuff stuff stuff chitter chatter stuff. Mom: Stuff stuff chitter chatter stuff stuff. Me: Oh. Hm. Just fished a black widow out of the pool. Mom: What? Me: Yeah, it’s almost dead. I’ll just dump it in the […]
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. I was weeding the Vestigial Lawn and found this: It is: (a) definitely a tooth; (b) definitely the size of a human tooth; and (c) definitely looks like a human tooth. Whether or not it is actually from a human is beyond my knowledge of disgusting things I’ve found in my backyard. It’s […]
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 […]
Property Brothers put your must-haves in Cleveland and a crummy sandwich.
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 