I drew up some preliminary sketches, and a few days ago Shayne and I finally made it to Lowes to pick up our lumber.  I wanted to go to the ...

While we are on a tight budget in anticipation of 6 weeks without my paycheck, we couldn't resist the Craigslist ad for an Agri-Fab 46...

All of my talk about making progress on the office, and what do I do instead? Go play outside. I can't help it. If the weather is good, ...

Since we got back from vacation (a real vacation! We went to the Smoky Mountains!), I've begun fall clean-up in the yard and house. I...

I haven't had much time this summer to work on the garden, and in the flower bed by the back porch the two varities of mint were startin...

I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to water. I think the grass has had it, don't you?

Not only has the weather been great, everything has finally come back to life. The grass turned green yesterday (weird how that happens aft...

Even thought I haven't been posting, we've been busy doing maintenance-type stuff here at the Prairie Box. Most importantly, we fina...

We finished tearing out the shrubs and got a load of dirt and lots of mulch to fill it all in. My mom generously donated some flowers from h...

Today we concentrated on working outside in the yard. Shayne ripped out 2 shrubs in front, and my mom and I worked on pruning the bushes, we...