Saturday we had another backyard burn and made more progress clearing out fallen tree branches; we also roasted hot dogs and brats over the fire - yum! Saturday afternoon my friend came over and worked on the raised bed/greenhouse structure he's giving me, from his old house. We got to the point where we needed to lift the heavy and awkward ( Read more... )

We got a call from our neighbor accross the street (husband of the woman I talked to); he was leaving his driveway for the wedding he was working at and happened upon the FedEx driver who was pondering the fact that he couldn't get his truck past a fallen tree in our driveway. He (neighbor) offered to sign for the package for us, but apparently the ( Read more... )

The name the FedEx driver gave me as who signed for the package doesn't match either of our neighbor's names. I was thrown off because the first name is the woman next door's first name and the last name is the woman accross the streets last name, but both are also very common names. I've now talked to both women and neither one signed for the ( Read more... )

I'm working from home today but I was out to lunch for a bit less than 2 hours. When I got back from lunch there was most of a tallish tree (not tall by redwood standards, just normal tall adult tree sized) laying in the clearing near our driveway. I stopped the car there (still a ways from the house) to take a look. There were sections of the tree ( Read more... )

So many things went wrong this past weekend we started just saying "add it to the list" every time another thing went wrong ( Read more... )

Make a list of things you can see without getting up: Computer Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, etc., Purse, Cup of tea, Phone, Hairbrush, Space heater, wood stove, LOTS of computer related stuff, a redwood forest, my deck, patio furniture, plants, a cat, hmm, I think this could go on forever, I can see a lot from my desk ( Read more... )

Last week we were having big problems making fires in our wood stove. It seemed like no matter what we did, we ended up with a lot of smoke in the house. We tried warming the chimney pipe to get the draft going, opening a door in case the house was sealed too well, carefully picking very dry wood, using plenty of kindling; nothing seemed to help. ( Read more... )

I had some rhubarb plants I wanted to plant so I chose a spot in the back yard. I started digging and hit cement. Hmmm. So I dug around the cement to see what it was and whether I could remove it. It's a 1 foot or so cement area with a perfect circle (cylinder) in the middle, about 3-4" wide. The center area was full of rotten wood and I can't tell ( Read more... )

I'm going to try again to post more often ( Read more... )

I got this from my sister's blog ( Read more... )