* The geese are flying south. I heard them approach then watched them fly over our house ( Read more... )

After going to the grocery store I had a couple of hours before it started to get dark. While it was mostly cloudy it was warm, calm and a few cloud breaks ( Read more... )

I tried for alliteration but I had to say Irises ( Read more... )

To-day I spent several hours doing a rough fill of the gap between the walkway and the driveway. I cleaned a number of bricks (and sadly, in the process, broke a few of them), tried to create a reasonable slope in the gap and then filled the bricks into the gap ( Read more... )

It has been more than a month since I posted that The Driveway is Finished! but it wasn't because the city did not approve ( Read more... )

So far so good. I worked from 9-1:30 p.m. (4.5 hours) and finished ( Read more... )

To-day I used most of the bricks from the pathway which I removed to make way for the driveway. They were put on the serpentine between the tetherball court and the window well ( Read more... )

Saturday: really did nothing but sleep, take a shower, pay bills, vote, buy books at the Goodwill, eat at a new restaurant for us, Bandini's on N. Lombard. Everything went well, nice weather ( Read more... )

The French Drain is finished, but isn't quite full of river rocks. To help alleviate that situation I emptied the 30 gallon Rubbermaid(tm) can out back by shoveling rocks from the can into a 5 gallon bucket and then walking the bucket to dump in the drain ditch ( Read more... )

In the rain under overcast skies as the sun was going down I did it ( Read more... )