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…
I’m not sure if I properly indicated just how oppressively hot and humid it was today, but DAMN, it was hot and humid today!!!
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…
There’s nothing more I’d like to do then to get those damn rows of piled dirt flattened and have new grass planted there, but I’m not sure if I could do it correctly. (I tried doing it on my own,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…