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First insane step : the vegetable garden
Given the garden's layout, we felt like the best place to start a small vegetable garden (just, you know, to "have fun") was left of the canopy, between the house and the shed. The only problem with...
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What we found behind the carport
In the beginning, last Spring, the slope leading to the garage looked like this: The surroundings of the carport were frightening, featuring the horrific half buried and leaking barrels, a chain...
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Compost story
Since you're all waiting impatiently for the next episode of our garden-related work (I am being swamped under massive amounts of fan mail... wait, why don't you believe me? :p), here it is: a compost...
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The water tank flower bed
In the "lots of work" category for this year, there's something I hadn't posted yet but that was still worth a look: the flower bed above the water tank. That's what the corner in front of the house at...
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Mine field
We were subjected to a rather big storm early in June - with somewhat... dramatic... consequences. Short version: some water sept in through the basement's walls on the front side of the house. We...
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Minefield v2.0
As can be expected from very small companies, our friends the earthwork contractors did not visit us as initially announced. And since we are, as always, really good at being haunted by Murphy's law,...
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Minefield v3.0
I hadn't had the time until now to finish telling the story of our earthwork adventures. Now we're getting close to the end of this episode, so it's probably a good time. While we were waiting for our...
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