How (Not) to Make a Goat Fence

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...

Window Fail

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...

Homemade Hideous Garden

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...

How to Clean an Attic

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...

The Dead Count

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...