Stealing peaches & turning green again

Last Saturday, we harvested 25 pounds of peaches from a tree in our new backyard…yes, 25 pounds. There would have actually been around 50 but many of them had already fallen to the ground because the tree actually broke due to so much weight from the fruit. So...

Man hours on the house

8/19 – 8/22/2006: 74 hoursSaturday 8/26/2006She 10:30 – 18:00 7.5 hoursHe 10:30 – 18:00 7.5 hoursSunday 8/26/2006She 10:00 – 14:00 4 hoursHe 10:00 – 14:00 4 hoursTOTAL: 97...

A friend at the new house

We took Ayla for an unusual walk this morning. Instead of heading a couple blocks down from our house and into the fields behind the new house, we decided to try to find a path which we’d seen last weekend with people walking on it. Unfortunately, we...

Weekend two

The cleaning frenzy has begun again. We finished cleaning out the workshop in the barn and at least have plenty of stuff for all the tools and such that we come across. And some day we’ll eventually get around to putting away the things we’ve found and the...

Another weekend, another container

Since we filled up the container so quickly last weekend and still have a whole lot more stuff to toss out, we ordered another container for this weekend so we have some place to put some of the remaining junk. I almost can’t believe that we’re on our...

Where’s the beef?

Ayla decided it would be a good idea to serve herself lunch today. I had started soaking the veggie flakes portion of her lunch and was waiting until closer to noon to add in the tripe part of the meal. So I walked out of the kitchen to get something from another room...