5/27/2015 Update – I originally posted this in 2008. The shelving plans are as useful today as they were back then. If we put a shelving unit in the RV garage these are the plans we’re going to use. When I … Continue reading →
This is our second summer at the new house. We’re hoping that this invasion, which we’ve experienced both years, isn’t the norm. The little guy in the photo is a tent caterpillar. He, and about a million of his buddies, … Continue reading →
In the future we plan to add a wine making area to the RV garage. Until then we’ve designated Fridays as Wine Making Days. That means that on Fridays I clear out of the kitchen and The Man of The … Continue reading →
The former owner of our house was quite the gardener. We were delighted to find these yellow rhododendrons. I didn’t know that rhododendrons could be yellow until I saw this.
Continue reading →We’re learning a lot at our new place. Stinging nettles really do sting. (Our woods are full of them!) Greenhouses can get amazingly hot. (We’ve got a cover for it this year.) And most lawn tractor transmissions are not built … Continue reading →
I make all of our bread, hamburger buns and dinner rolls. That means we go through a lot of flour. In the past we’ve bought a fifty pound bag of flour from Costco every two to three months. Sadly, they’ve … Continue reading →
The tomatoes responded really well when I fertilized and moved them into individual pots. I’d been putting off doing the same for the peppers because there weren’t enough pots for all of them. I did it today and these … Continue reading →
About five years ago we started looking for a new house. It was a buyer’s market and we thought that it would be fairly easy to find what we were looking for. Nope. It took four years. Four very long years of … Continue reading →
