Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2014
The house improvement is moving along well. It’s sounded like living inside of a thunderstorm, with a few earthquakes thrown in for good measure. It hasn’t been particularly restful but for the most part the work has been outside of the house. The original plan was to saw up all the old siding and use […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2014
The new bat house arrived on Friday and I’ve decided to name it “The Belfry.” I was gonna name it the “Bat Hilton” or “Bat Regency” but didn’t want to be hassled about copy right infringement. Besides, this way if somebody tell us we have bats in our belfry, we can just say, “Why, yes […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2014
Our contractor friend came this morning to begin the project of replacing all the original wood siding which had been improperly installed and was unpainted and had no finish at all to protect it from warping or weathering. Like Dan says whenever we started doing a project like this, “It’s never too late to build […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2014
Pickled beans. Haven’t ever tried to make this before. Each jar gets a dill flower head, and a hot pepper, both of which are from our garden. The yellow pepper is a yellow cayenne. We’re hoping this isn’t too much hot peppers but we’ll find out in a few weeks. I made three pints a […]
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