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This week last year

Creating a monster

With the installation of the fence, and the start of nice weather, we’ve started letting the cats out for supervised playtime. This may have been a mistake. Now instead of coming home to cats who want to snuggle or chase things, we come home to the insistent yowl of “let me out.”
The worst of it [...]

Dealing with the neighbors

A couple of months ago, my husband and I started going to community meetings about an animal that’s quickly gaining nuisance status – elk. We like them wandering through the yard, even when they’re eating the trees and trying to slay the evil wheelbarrow. We’ve only been in the house 2 years now, and the [...]

Starting a meadow

Over the summer we started a landscaping project that will probably take a few years to complete. It started out innocently enough – we wanted to put in a fence to have ornamental plants and possibly a dog. Then we started adding the prerequisites: taking down the dead maple that would likely fall on the [...]

Greenification

Somehow I’ve turned into one of those yuppie/hippie people that are so irritating with their “high ideals” and “green living.” My only saving grace is that I’m not outspoken and demanding attention about it. That’s not to say I don’t talk about the things I’m discovering, just that I can take the hint when others [...]