ETA: The blog is being rebooted as an incentive for my Patreon Supporters. All posts go live after a week, but Supporters at the $10+ tiers get early access. Thank you! Ages and ages ago, I posted about the lawns, and about grass, and about how we were installing zenith zoysia grass where ivy once […]
Brooke here. North Carolina took a long time to shake off the dickishness of winter–as of two weeks ago, we were still losing power to ice storms on a fairly regular basis–but it’s finally spring! So, time to dust off the home blog and start posting again. …where were we? Let me reread some of […]
Brooke here. Three weeks of flooding has uncovered a lot of weird crap that was buried under the ivy. Such as… Yes, that is a lifesize terracotta human nose, thank you for asking. And one and two-thirds cents. It’s literally a penny with a third bitten right out of it. I blame the two-thirds of […]
Brooke here. We’re… oh, I think “exhausted” about covers it. We got a break from the non-stop rain for exactly eight days. A full week-plus of not having to bail out the basement, woo! We made the most of it by catching up on some yard projects we’ve been slacking on due to Bailing, and […]
Brooke here. My sister yells at me for exaggerating. She says I blow things out of proportion. Like how I claimed Brown and I have done nothing for the last few weeks but bail out the basement. See, we got the front lawn regraded and I put down seed and there’s a drywell and a […]
Brooke here. It’s been a busy week, so I thought I’d post a quick picture of what Brown and I have been up to. Sooooo…. The hole is six feet wide, thirty feet long, and two feet deep at the lowest point. The ground is wet Carolina clay that’s interwoven with thick ropes of ivy. […]
Brooke here. I’ll eventually get back to the bathroom posts, but right now we’re all kinds of furious so you might as well enjoy the ride. So. Long-time readers will remember we’ve been having nothing but problems with drainage on the west side of the house. Despite the previous owners’ insistence that they had installed […]
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. This is a brief post, no pictures. My parents are here and I have spent the last week in frantic clean-mode (why is it that I only notice the cobwebs when my parents or Brown’s mother is coming to visit? We’re talking Charlotte-on-amphetamines webs here, people. Our spiders aren’t subtle.). Last week it […]
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 […]
Flying by night 