by Ivory Soap | Jul 30, 2010 | Barnyard, Mini Goats
Ivory’s Totally Secure Goat Fence 1. Put up worthless chicken fence. 2. Get sick of it and tear it down, vowing to put up a new one so the monsters won’t kill your garden and fruit trees. 3. Fail. 4. Borrow MIL’s boss’s brother’s...
by Ivory Soap | Jul 28, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
Good news! I got my window fixed. See that bottom right pane? It was busted out with a plastic mini-rocket. Good thing I called my handyman to replace it, huh? It would have looked SO TACKY otherwise. Unfortunately, less than a month after it was repaired, my...
by Ivory Soap | Jul 16, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
Isn’t that beautiful? Corn, beans, tomatoes, watermelon… It’s my neighbors’. Which makes this even more shameful: Hideous Garden 101 Step 1: Buy goats and chickens. Step 2: Have only one fence dividing your backyard. Step 3: Have husband...
by Ivory Soap | Jul 9, 2010 | Household, Simple & Frugal
Apart from my Finished Room Over the Garage (FROG), my attic covers my entire house. It’s a little house, but that’s still a lot of attic! Yesterday it was stuffed to the gills with CRAPOLA. Now, look at it! (Pictured above.) Look again from the other...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 24, 2010 | Drama, Fencepost
This has been a tough year for the Caswell farm. We’ve lost: Monty to a raccoon Baby chick #3 to the next door dog Spiky Hermit Crab to depression (never came out of his shell) And the other one to heaven-knows-what a couple of months later. And ten...