Critters ‘n Gasoline n’ Other Stuff

We spent Father’s Day weekend with John’s parents.  It was a nice weekend; pretty hot though.  When we got back, my Gas Price Barameter (a family-owned non-branded service station), who had held their ground at $3.99 for weeks while every other station in town hit $4+, had hit $4.03 for a gallon of regular unleaded.  [...]

Leaves of Five

I was very productive yesterday — I put down more mulch, did some laundry, worked on the pool chemicals and did a lot of mowing.  Being slightly ambitious, I decided to tackle the Back 40.  I soon discovered that I just don’t have the upper body strength to keep the mower from wanting to flip [...]

Skunk in My Feeder?

Ok, not in the feeder — but there’s one out there right now, feasting on what the birds dropped on  the ground.  A couple of weeks ago, I had a raccoon in the Dogwood stealing from the bird feeders.  Last night, something got into the trash on the deck and now there is a skunk [...]