Category Archives: House Project

While I was poking around in the basement last weekend, during the recent hurricane, looking for water leaks, I found this: How’s that for maximal ick factor? That, dear friends, is the bottom of one of the new shelves that … Continue reading →

Perhaps you remember from a few weeks ago that we found a Big Rock where we were digging the rose garden. If you scroll down a few frames in this blog you can see it. Yesterday we pulled that rock … Continue reading →

Speaking of ambitious plants, they seem to like the environment in the plant room. This one is reaching for the very top of the cathedral ceiling. I don’t know what it’s plans are once it reaches the top. Just so … Continue reading →

While I was poking around the yard, I ran into our scaevola plant. Here is a closeup photo of one of the flowers. It is a wonderful blue color. Years ago this strange flower with a hole in the middle … Continue reading →

Hey! It’s been more than a month since I added a post to this blog. Yikes! My excuse is that I spent the whole time trying to dig out this rock. No…. wait… that was a lie. Anyway, today we … Continue reading →

A while back we were in the garden center of the Big Box store, and my son picked out an innocent looking bulb to plant. It turns out that the innocent looking bulb is an “Elephant Ear” plant. You can … Continue reading →

We recently noticed that the polywogs have hatched in the local creek. So we trudged down there today with some buckets and captured a few of them. It turns out that the old aquarium that we used to raise polywogs … Continue reading →

For those of you who have not yet heard my “Oh my achin’ back” lament, we dug up the front garden last weekend and put in some plants. The landscaper wanted an arm and a leg to do the job, … Continue reading →

Our new refrigerator has a really nifty Control Center on the front of the freezer door. It is over the ice and water dispenser. This is the new, high tech way of controlling a refrigerator, not just a couple of … Continue reading →

It rained all day today. So I spent most of the day down in the basement in my shop. I built this saw horse: I bought the brackets for the saw horse about 30 years ago. Yeah, thirty years ago. … Continue reading →