Once Upon a Family

Most of the parts to the planter in the order from bottom to top of the picture how I stacked them together, I added one more saucer an...

How wet was it? The wettest it has ever been since 1847! Wet enough for this little crayfish to be able to crawl out of...

Dad cleaned out the shed this weekend and found a brittle, broken lawn chair, the ducks old kiddie pool and a little, green, Pooh Bear wh...

The place where the kids shot sporting clays this last spring/summer had a kids day this weekend.  There was free ammo, clays and archery. ...

when your husband buys you a turning knob for the lawn mower so that you can "steer with one hand and swat deer flys with the other....

Q:  Where does your lawn mower run out of gas?  A:  As far away from the garage as possible. That is Spark there at the end of the ar...

Last year when we had bad storms we lost a lot of branches.  We cleaned up what seemed like a never ending supply of them but there are a fe...

Spark has been waiting it seems his whole life to get to mow lawn.  Finally, today, Dad thought Spark has shown himself responsible lately ...

Geraniums are one of my favorite flowers for the summer season.  I like to plant three or four of them in large pots.  I put the pots out i...

We have been blessed with some great "Indian Summer" weather the past week and a half. It's really nice since they say our Oct...

Sounds like a secret code or a password doesn't it?! Nope, it literally means that our van in the garage where it has not resided since ...

The weather was nice enough today that we could get out and get some outside work done. Lately the forecast has been rain and cold so we ar...

That was then.... This is now. These trees have just never worked very well. A couple years ago I cut the branches off the first one and...