As I spent this week bending over, picking up stones, cleaning them off, rebuilding the laid out pattern off to the side so I’d know how to rebuild them on the patio, pulling out all the weeds then eventually rebuilding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t too surprised to see Linus and Lucy chasing and eventually catching (albeit briefly) a mouse. If you’ve been reading this comics since adopted them in 2011 they have a history of chasing and catching mice and even a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is long, tedious work. One stone at a time. A lot of bending over, on my knees, picking up each stone, cleaning it off, temporally rebuilding it. Then after removing the weeds placing them all back. Hopefully this Paver[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure why, maybe there’s some reason behind it, but the previous owner just laid all the stones, side by side each other so there’s always ample room for weeds and other plant life to sprout out between the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the perks to drawing a daily diary comic is, when I realized that it was just last year on this date that I bought my house, I was able to revisit those days, just by looking back at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re a new reader here or if you don’t remember, a bird hit a window on my house back on June 28th. Unfortunately, he died. Fortunately for this guy, he lived. I can’t say the same for all of those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can probably guess what’s in the privacy hedge, but you’ll have to read the next day’s comic to find out for sure.
When I bought this house a little over a month ago, I figured I’d have to do some tinkering around it, but didn’t for see this. What a frustrating day this was. The Wainscoting wouldn’t fit right, some of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a long day. But by the time I gathered my stuff and drove back to my mom’s house for dinner (where I’m still living until I finish fixing up this family room) I’d got a lot done. All[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I really couldn’t think of any other way to combat this. If I’d simply pulled the grass or weeds out I wouldn’t get the roots. This is going to take a long time and several, several days. Here’s what a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…