This weekend I've been revisiting the internal combustion engine. Both of my lawn mowers, a John Deere 116 lawn tractor and a Toro 22" push mower, are kaput ( Read more... )

The first rain in 12 days fell for less then twenty minutes yesterday. We could stand to use a great deal more of the stuff.

My favorite collection of fictional dysfunction comes back tonight with the Season Première of Rescue Me. The plot took a hard hit last year when actress Maura Tierney was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer ( Read more... )

I’ve been racing to get work stuff done so this weekend will be all about our own agenda. We got the pellet stove down into the basement and finally replaced the last piece of missing roof eave ( Read more... )

Today Lowe's began selling Solar Panels in their California stores that can be purchased by the indiviudal consumer for their homes. They will begin selling the panels in stores across the country in 2011 ( Read more... )

I've started to compile a list of all of the visitors we have had to our new house during our first year of residency. The criteria is that they have to actually visit our property. I am not counting the buzzards, geese, ducks, egrets and owls that I see simply fly overhead. While obvious I think I should note that I did not take any of these ( Read more... )

Here are the non-bird vertebrates that have visited or dwell on our property since we moved in last December. I’ll try to keep updating this as time goes by. We have a bat living in the shed that I can’t identify, the little bugger moves too fast and I don’t want to risk harming it through capture so I am not posting its photograph. Also as of ( Read more... )

Its more then a little embarrassing when a 62 year old, former stroke victim shows you up. Yesterday my father came down to help me cut & hang drywall for what will be Jessica’s new bedroom. We’re almost finished, having to call it quits around 5:00 to give K* a break from a psychotic cranky baby. I can wrap up what work is left anyway, then ( Read more... )

You know when those first three to six months into a new relationship where that person can do NO wrong? Where you wake up everyday excited to see what you may do together today? Where even when you see some problems, you can’t help yourself from sweeping them under the rug because an irrational part of you insists that it just doesn’t matter ( Read more... )