I am equally pleased and dismayed with our backyard. Today, in preparation for the Fall weather headed our way Monday and beginning in force Tuesday, I lopped off all the grass I could on the park strip and the back yard while still keeping the tall pink flowing plants which the honey bees seem to like ( Read more... )

Our Backroom Project has officially ended! We started this in the fall of 2021 with a contract to do the initial design and do an asbestos test. It languished for the first three quarters of 2022 (the delay was never fully explained but Neil Kelly Company was going through some major changes at the time ( Read more... )

I slept a lot yesterday, got a little work done, ate some food and generally treated myself better ( Read more... )

* Bad House neighbors partied until 4:30 this morning. Yak, yak, yak ( Read more... )

I did not do as much as I had hoped to-day. I dug out two wheelbarrows of bricks and stones but only stowed one of them to LBT ( Read more... )

Slept better this morning than I have in several days. However, woke up with gunk in my throat I started the day with Emergen-C, then coffee ( Read more... )

One of the posts of our south fence has shown its base was rotted probably for the last three weeks. I was willing to let it stay that way until the weather improved ( Read more... )

A gaggle of serious looking guys gathered to-day at the 1927 house next to Bad House, including some guy named Greg. Another guy (who addressed Greg, which is how I know Greg's first name) arrived in a white pick-up truck with camper shell driving just a bit too fast. They all arrive or leave consulting their handheld computers. There were as ( Read more... )

The Farside Badhouse is for sale again ( Read more... )

* Friday the Bad House neighbors completed fixing the fence by putting brackets on the new fence posts, putting the picket sections onto the posts, sawing off the tops of the posts and putting in the pickets which overlapped post and fence section. Looks good. Now back to our regularly scheduled program! We will see what will happen to the fence ( Read more... )