The guys have been doing some work for a rancher out north who has a bunch of nice moss rock on his property. We had just the right equipment out there to haul a few loads home each night after work. If you look closely at the top right of …

Spring flowers have a tough life in our part of the country. It’s a rare year when things like tulips have the opportunity to bloom. You can see by the bud on the tulip above that it was probably within a couple of days of opening up. However, spring weather …

Question Dorothy asked: Ok, when you say ‘shop’, I think ‘store’. I’m assuming you are probably not building a store, so I’m wondering what you mean by a shop? Answer: Here in our part of the world, we refer to a “shop” as the building inwhich the guys can pull …

Ok. That title is a slight exaggeration. We’re not really experiencing an “earthquake” but the earth is quaking out here! Many of you know that we are in the dirt excavation business which means we have lots of heavy equipment around. We’re building a shop out back this spring so …

Last year I tried to post participate fairly regularly in the Garden Blogger’s Bloom day when on the 15th of every month you would post a picture of what was blooming in your garden. I didn’t take time to participate much this year because it seemed like my posts were …

Awhile ago, we bought a few acres of land adjacent to the land our house sits on. Eventually, we plan to build a shop out back and move our equipment from our land across the road to the new land back behind our house. The new land purchase has created …

Last summer we had a little microburst come through on the day of Amanda’s graduation. We lost our trampoline during that storm when it was lifted up and tossed over a fence into the field next to our house. A field full of cows. Enough said. We bought another trampoline …

Earlier this summer we purchased a small, 18′, above ground pool from Costco. This is a trial run to see if we can really keep up a pool during our already busy summer months. So far so good. We are considering putting an inground pool in this fall or next …

Last month I posted a blog entry about the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day which you can go back to read if you want more information. I took these pictures on the 15th right before we headed out of town, but I didn’t have time to upload them until this morning. …

Today’s Thursday Thirteen is a photo journey detailing how to install a drip system in your flower bed. I’m only talking about the part *I* know how to do which begins after the main tube has been buried in the grass, pushed under the cement curbing, and is laying in …