Category Archives: House

On the street where we live

There’s only two things money can’t buy . . .

The first garden tomato of the summer is an excellent good thing. Continue reading

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set appendages(fingers) == crossed

Our home equity loan is “conditionally approved.” Continue reading

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Potato cultivation

I found that one of the potatoes had sprouted in earnest, and I now have a potato vine. Continue reading

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Bide thy thyme

Idiot Boy from next door decides it’s time to get out and mow his front yard, covering me all over with the dirt and pollen and who-knows what. Continue reading

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More weekend plant-wrestling

I couldn’t restrain myself, and bought a slew of tomato plants, some dill, and some peppermint. Continue reading

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Beat with the ugly stick

They’re comfortable sitting in a wheelbarrow sandwiched between two layers of compost, but they won’t be happy if I don’t get them in the ground. Continue reading

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Pecan progress and garden guff

I need to go buy a bundle of surveyor’s stakes this weekend. Continue reading

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Lord god, go halfway to China

I didn’t know you planted any kind of bulb that deep. Continue reading

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Housework I’ve been doing recently

The disjecta membra of The Sycamore That Would Not Die™ Continue reading

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Now what in the hell

am I going to do with the three cups (or thereabouts) of rosemary leaves I have because I gave the rosemary bush a radical haircut (which it badly needed)? Continue reading

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