Recombobulated

Woo hoo!  We are officially growing food! Check out my first harvest… I brought in the last of the lettuce (now that the bunnies left it for greener pastures), the first of the tomatoes, the first two peppers, the first

Imagine my surprise when I found baby bunnies living under my cabbages!  Well, I didn’t actually find them, Bleo (Bob and Wendy’s labradoodle) found them.  I was out in the garden pulling weeds.  I left the gate open and Bella

I was in LA working this week and I got a text from Steve that said, “I have good news and bad news…” It’s a game we play. He goes on, “Good news is we have had alternating days of

How does your garden grow? I’ve never much contemplated the fact that there is a whole nursery rhyme about how contrary I am.  Until now. To commemorate the summer solstice, I thought I’d regale you with the story of what

You’re not going to believe this, but we got stuck in the mud again.  Some people will never learn… To be fair, Justin wasn’t part of the first mud weekend.  It was his truck that got stuck, but he was

There is a mostly amusing parade of critters across our property.  In the winter, we saw the same very large coyote or average sized lone wolf walking across our frozen lake several times.  It was never much interested in anything

The snow melted. All at once.  And, everything flooded.  The fields, the roads, people’s basements.  Fortunately, our house is perfectly located on our land and all the snowmelt drains away from the house into the lake.  Phew.  So, while four

So, we did finally figure out what happens to our trash with a little help from our new neighbors.  But, it wasn’t quite as straight forward as I would have expected and, definitely, challenges us to be more responsible consumers

Last week, I told one of my clients that I moved to Wisconsin on December 15th.  He laughed out loud and said, “Did you lose a bet or something?” Part of our dream has always been living in a place

Phew! We moved just over a month ago and we have been thoroughly and completely discombobulated since then. Our move went great and we love our new home.  But, it’s been a little chaotic since we arrived. We had everything