Is "mechanical removal."  The subject is moss in the "lawn ( Read more... )

Tired.  Very tired ( Read more... )

I'd completely forgotten that the tree service is coming today.  Good thing they called and left an ETA (although the synapse fired on the way home from barony meeting.)  Yes, I finally called and made the appointment.  They're going to take down that big branch over the driveway that I've been yapping about for years, the maple tree on the east ( Read more... )

A couple of week ago, I was standing in the sunlight from the window in the library by my drawing board talking to my husband.

If you have ever been to my house in the summertime, you will notice a problem with that sentence.  One of those things is not like the others.

"In the sunlight" and "in the library" are mutually exclusive.

It took a while for ( Read more... )

Without that tree in the back, we would be able to put up a badminton net when Charlotte gets older.  I just thought of that.

Ages ago, we cut down another tree that I'd been agonizing over, and as usual, I'm very happy about it. 
( Pictures )

I have a few weekends to talk about.  Apparently whenever it involves having to take a picture of something, I don’t post.  It seems that lately dealing with the camera is too much to deal with.  Odd, that.

Going back three weekends, vynehorn and I went to Old Sturbridge Village for classes.  She did a hands-on class on historic chocolate that sounded ( Read more... )

Tables and chairs purchased for the unexpected influx of family for Christmas eve dinner ( Read more... )

It’s promising that as I continue this story the gaps represented in between the posts is growing - now I’m skipping from weekend to weekend!

( and it ends with a whimper... )

Sunday night was a night in the lap of luxury.  Charlotte was back in her own room, we were able to give her a bath and read her bedtime stories without a flashlight, we watched some mindless television, and went to bed in a house heated by the boiler.  Life was sweet.

( Debris - pictures )