Now it’s getting somewhere good

Now it’s getting somewhere good

This weekend we worked ourselves hard again and managed to paint the entire chicken coop, brick out a hole in the wall leading to the outhouse and dungheap (which the dog loved to use when we first got this house and Ayla smelled just lovely after romping around in...

Stay away from the rat poison

This summer hasn’t really been good to Ayla. She has had to go to the vet three times so far; once for her shots, another time for her sore shoulder and this time….suspected rat poison. We live on an old farm and the previous owner was a nut about putting...

That’s a lot of chili

With just over a week to go to our housewarming party, I am now in full speed ahead mode to get things accomplished around here. This morning I replanted our fig tree so that it has some space to grow finally and will retain a bit of water. I’ve moved it into...

Pinch hitting with buttermilk substitutes

Last night I planned for us to have tacos for dinner. We have an awesome recipe from a Harley Davidson biker cookbook which never fails to satisfy the largest of hungers. And the next day any leftovers make a really great taco salad. I was at the grocery story...

A new woodworking project coming up

If you read our houseblog, you probably saw that we were working on the chicken coop last weekend and made some progress is re-plastering the wall which was destroyed after years of exposure to chicken nitrates. This weekend we’ll be putting in a wooden tile...