Spring is in the Air
I complain sometimes about the workload I have created for myself around here. Spring is one of those times that …
Duvall
Movie Night!
Evening temperatures are starting to feel a little more “spring-like finally. So what better activity to do when mom has …
Snow Removal Machine
The “experts” are telling us this year could be a big snow year. After nearly breaking my back with 3ish …
Four More
Trees that is. It’s a seemingly endless quest to limit liability and reclaim acreage that has been unusable for decades. …
Guest House
To tell this story properly, we need to rewind back about 2 years to when Kris and I first started …
Rip it Up…
Continued from Water… Sure enough, the damage was extensive and there was no amount of complaining and belly aching that …
Water…
… is NOT supposed to be in this part of the basement. Well, any part just for the record. So …
Roadwork
A project that the collective neighborhood had been looking at this summer is some extensive repairs to our private road. …
Balance…
With the annual backyard fall fest only a few weeks away now, I’ve been in the back yard doing my …
BANG!
BANG is really the only way to describe the noise that came amidst the closing moments of a small but …
Moving Mountains
Immediately after Ry’s inaugural baseball game Saturday morning, I was warming up the tractor and hitching up various attachments. Next …
Staycation!
I love staycations. Household projects are the typical motivator for taking one and that was the case this year. EPG …
Small improvement = muddy repair
Murphy’s Law right? The back yard builds up a sizable puddle when it rains, and let’s face it… it rains …
Fall Fest ‘18
This year’s Wienold Backyard Fall Fest was an enormous success. By our guestimation we had somewhere around 65 people throughout …
The 5th Season
Who knew there were 5 seasons a year (some would argue that there is a “Mud Season” each year as …