Category: House

I took a nostalgic walk around the property today. It’s a perfect warm day here and the sky is clearing up a bit, and I’ll miss this place.

Had a chat with my old friends the trees, actually hugged one, and wished them well.

The heart shaped rock thing has represented a love for this land I’ve had, and Steph even more, since we created it together more than a decade ago.

This is why god made screen doors…

The nice thing is, he stayed there for quite a while. I don’t take life and it’s rubbed off on Steph…

Tomorrow’s our big moving sale and I think it will go well, we’ve got some good stuff. There’s an ad in the local paper with a post on the local Facebook garage sale site, it’s 4th of July weekend and we’re right off of Ski Hill with lot’s of tourists going by.

To top it off, we’ve got company from Washington. Jimmy and Sandy are here with kids in tow: one pre-teen girl, a 2.5 year old energizer bunny girl and an infant boy. The house is full, somewhat empty of furnishings, and loud.

Should be fun!

I’m convinced that trees have a soul, as do every living entity. I’ve watched our trees grow magnificently over the last 13 years, and I’ve seen a few get sick. When they get too far gone, Steph has them cut down.

All of the stubs are now starting to rise from the ground as if being pushed up by the roots of the surrounding trees. It wouldn’t surprise me if they started growing again…

Some pretty flower weeds popped up in the back forty. I’m a pretty smart guy but when it comes to horticulture I don’t know shit. Maybe they’re wildflowers, maybe weeds. Who cares, I like…

Our poor neighborhood is going through a construction boom. They finished the house between Brian and I and a new one is now going in across the road. Our well water has suffered from the last new well and now a new one is underway.

The subdivision has five new builds going on, including one right behind Brian that I just saw start up today. Our years of quiet are over and that new water monster is scaring the catshit out of my kitty.

It’s finally been a couple of really nice days around here and the property is drying out and the trees are waking up.

Even the creek’s alive:

Somebody spent the night outside my office. Mr. Moose I presume.

Although, if I was naked on Blacks Beach right now, I wouldn’t even have noticed…

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It’s been a nice mild winter so far and I really thought I was going to escape this place without having to deal with, this…

I’d rather be on Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park:

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Nothing like a pot of stew for the Stupid Bowl…

I actually don’t recall dreaming about any of this…

Steph whipped up a nice meal for us today. Looks like we get ten pounds of meat each.

Steph and I have the same discussion every year. I always say leave them on the lawn and she always says something like mice will build nests. Hey, that’s why we pay the big bucks to fatten up the cat over the winter, gives her energy in the spring to hunt!

I never prevail in this discussion and Steph always rakes them up. At least I can dodge that chore by stating indignantly, well, you know my position…

After all these years, someone’s finally building a house on our side of the subdivision. I’m sure glad they’re next to Brian and not us, Piper don’t like it!

Steph’s daughter Melissa made her a quilt. It’s quite fine I must say and I believe it’s her first one.

Here it is painted: