I’ve actually been wanting to do this for a while because I love reading the searches that lead to places like Nanook’s blog but I just haven’t gotten around to it… Today I am couch-bound because I had dental surgery yesterday and am not really in any shape to be doing a lot of work…but […]

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. But I wouldn’t let you down so here goes… Germany greenhouse […]

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. […]

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. Game #7 is called Follow the […]

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 water on demand in the garden, horse […]