Posts in the "home & garden" Category...

Fixed: A Whole New Fence Hole

fatherhood | featured | home & garden 

[8 Jun 02013 | 287 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

I was forever opening gates, throwing balls over the fence, answering frantically ringing doorbells, replying to pointless requests for permission…

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Tommy the Froggy: A Tale of Suburban Conservationism?

critters | featured | home & garden | skepdad 

[29 May 02013 | 129 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

We shuttled Tommy the Froggy into a little jar and got on our grubbies for the walk over to the sure-to-be-muddy pond.

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Summer of Yard: Kid Planters Edition

fatherhood | home & garden 

[29 May 02013 | 74 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Our garden has gone through many, many changes over the years, through a process of honing, raising, boxing, edging, and generally tending.

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Reloaded: A Case of Sudden Onset Summer Edition

fatherhood | home & garden | running 

[14 May 02013 | 134 views | 8 minutes of your time ]

Winter disappeared overnight one day and summer arrived in a burst of oh-my-gosh I-need-to-change-my-snow-tires-before-they-melt-in-this-heat kind-of panic.

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Reloaded: Twelve Years and Counting Edition

blogger | home & garden | running 

[20 Apr 02013 | 190 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

It’s been that kind of week, and — it being the twelvth anniversary of this blog today, and all, I wanted to write something. Something!

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Reloaded: Toxic Fumes Edition

fatherhood | home & garden | sport & fitness 

[13 Aug 02012 | 362 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

The problem was, as a multi-decade-aged piece, it had been around the refinishing track a couple times previous and had encountered a variety of coats that didn’t quite match up with the styles of a nearly-five-year-old little girl.

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Epic Vegetable Garden 2012: Epic Hail Fail

home & garden | weather 

[12 Jul 02012 | 697 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I’ve been terrible at keeping this little thread updated over the past couple months, failing to keep notes on what was — until about three-thirty AM last night — one of the best vegetable gardens we’ve ever cultivated in this yard. …

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Seen: The Evolution of a Park

city & culture | home & garden 

[4 Jun 02012 | 774 views | 4 minutes of your time ]

Ah, June… Summer is at our doorstep, the days are (almost all of them) seeming to get a little bit longer, and for the second year in a row I am partaking in my daily blogging exercise, marginally focused along a …

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Epic Vegetable Garden 2012: Edging and Planting

home & garden 

[7 May 02012 | 462 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

It’s been nearly a month since I found myself standing in the chaos of dirt and last-year’s left-over plant-matter, contemplating the upcoming summer of vegetable gardening. I wrote about spending the day tilling soil and the work done-so-far building trellis space …

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