My Stuff

In the coming weeks (or months), I will take these stacks of flagstone, all six tons of them... and this pile of decomposed granite... and...

My plan for yesterday was to plant a little garden with a water feature in the decorative well in the front yard.  I got all my supplies tog...

This is my car.  I love my car.  One of the great things about this car is that it has run flat tires.  Apparently, I have been  neglecting ...

One of the differences between Venus and Mars is that Venus loves beauty.  Venus gets satisfaction from working to make something pleasing t...

My sister thinks it's hilarious that I still use this old relic of a sewing machine.  It's my mother's Singer Featherweight.  Sh...

I have to tattoo Hyacinth's kid before his new owner comes to get him in a couple of weeks.  Here are the implements of torture. Tatt...

Catching rabbits. And eating rabbits.

I'm sure that somewhere in the world people actually eat these things.  If they came anywhere near my lips, I would commence projectile ...

There has been no further damage to garden plants since we gassed the moles a few days ago.  The one potato plant that was showing signs bei...

This is what's going on at our place today.  We have several trees that are dying, scraggly, and ugly; some threatening to fall on the h...

I am actually making progress on the drapes.  I've finished the two narrow windows that flank the bed.  Now I just have to make two pa...

I googled "harvesting asparagus" last night and discovered that I've messed up.  All the sites I read said to harvest the aspa...

The Critter Gitter is basically...a hose.  Heh.  One end of the flexible hose is attached to the exhaust pipe of a vehicle - car, truck, tra...

Maybe I'm just expecting too much too soon, but my garden seems to be hobbling along this year.  I just planted tomato plants last week ...

The previous owner of our property must have loved azaleas because he planted them everywhere.  I haven't been able to do any landscapin...

Don't buy this kind of sprinkler (above Vigoro brand, not to be mistaken for Viagra brand).  We bought several and they barely lasted a...

Tom got the Critter Gitter out yesterday morning to gas my garden moles, but he couldn't find their hole and I was leaving for Dallas, s...

OK, it's time to get serious about our mole problem. When I was out in the garden this morning, I noticed one of my broccoli plants lo...

Spaghetti for dinner tonight.  Made from our homegrown tomatoes stewed and frozen from last season, homegrown goat, homegrown basil and ore...

I got nearly a quart of milk from Hyacinth this morning, but spilled about half of it all over the kitchen counter and floor.  I'm prett...