Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 2

Ok, I missed Thursday but I had a pretty good excuse…I had some dental surgery done yesterday and I wasn’t really feeling like blogging. I actually started this post early with thoughts that I might get around to it yesterday but it didn’t happen....

A doggy totem pole?

So we’re a few feet short of a totem pole but Ayla decided she needed to sit on this tree stump over the weekend and we were happy we had the camera handy. She generally will leave long before we have it in our hand or start moving around as soon as we take aim....

Playing the umbi-game

Way back in June 2006 I posted a list of “mind games” from M. Shirley Chong which can be used to help train your dog. These “games” are basically a way for you to remind your dog that you are in control and that he/she needs to remember that....

Get the water flowing again

On Saturday morning we went to Hagebau, our local home improvement store, and finally bought the pump hose and fittings to set up the pump for our watering system. The previous owner of this house ran piping around most of the outside buildings so that he could have...

Road construction

Our house sits on a main street which connects several small villages to each other. There are other ways to get from A to B but going through our town is probably the easiest and fastest since we have very few traffic lights and they are rarely ever red. A couple...