Our dogs will stop at nothing!!!! to destroy Jessica’s plantings. Flowerbed? Dig it up. New lawn? Dig it up. Newer lawn? Refuse to play anywhere else; chase each other relentlessly for eight hours a day until the grass seed is ground to powder. Fence? What fence? Doggie repellent? That’s for city dogs. Flowerbeds strewn with …

I posted this post from home on Friday, when I had the day off (and back when my internet connection was working). Looks like it didn’t stick to the post. So I’ll try to replicate it today. (Sorry for not catching it sooner. My life is already so full as to strain credulity, but last …

Combination shed and coop. Therefore, “shoop.” It’s actually the first frame building I have ever built from the ground up (if you don’t count the wood shed, which as I’ve mentioned I’ll have to rebuild this spring. Too small). It’s 8 feet square with a pitched metal roof, a back window and a front door. …