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 Daisy | May 26, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
I told myself I wasn’t going to grow squash this year. I have chronicled my squash woes in previous posts, including here, wherein I sustained a SBRI. Every time I try to grow squash I end up sacrificing a gargantuan amount of my limited garden space only to...
by Ivory Soap | Dec 4, 2009 | Fencepost, Flops
What on earth was a I making? Three kids, no brain cells. Any ideas?
by Ivory Soap | Nov 24, 2009 | Fencepost, Flops
This is Ivory’s soymilk maker. She got it for her b-day from her very understanding parents (a physicist and accountant who poured years of enrichment, travel, and 16 semesters of college/grad school into a child that currently takes great joy in goat poop and...
by Daisy | Sep 7, 2009 | Fencepost, Flops
A moment is all it takes to consume this tasty fruit. Lemme show you: Oh, tiny. So tiny. What went wrong? I’ve never grown a watermelon before. Any advice for next year?