Today, our little girl turns seven, and she will have been with us for four years as of tomorrow.

Because of all that, and her cuteness, I'll ignore that she took off and ran around through the woods last night, being a general hooligan and mostly ignoring my requests for her stop tracking woodchucks.

Good thing she is cute.

Mr. Rollins walked up onto the stage, profusely thanked the crowd for still wanting to listen to him, and proceeded to machine gun everyone in the room for two and a half hours on things that he has experienced in the thirteen months since he was in Boston last ( Read more... )

• Hand tilled area to reclaimed by lawn from the Giant Mulch Pad.
• Wife hand tilled the long stretch next to the pool, and removed all the grass, also my hand.
• Demolished the strange, leaning and vaguely blasphemous "awning" from the side of the barn over the pool. Using nothing more than a 12" handsaw and a ladder.
• Removed all the poke berry weeds and ( Read more... )