Planetary Verbosity

Besides being Halloween/Samhain, today marks the one year anniversary of our purchase of the homestead. By this time last year, we’d completed the paperwork and had officially bought our first actual house together. It’s been a long year since then, with ups and downs and lots of hard work. We still have lots to do [...]

First of all, damn, is it cold here! It was nice on Sunday, which is the only day we went up to the homestead last weekend (Saturday was a rainy washout) – a little chilly, but still beautiful and sunny. The past few days, though, have been cold and windy, with bouts of rain here [...]

I liked my little turquoise-colored beach chair with the carry strap, the pocket on the back, and the chintzy sunset design. It wasn’t like it was a prized possession or anything, and I most likely won’t miss it because I used it very infrequently, but I actually planned to use it…and it leads into the [...]

Originally, I was going to use this entry to bring back SASV, something I used to do back in the old incarnation of my blog. SASV was an entry of random things, or “short attention span verbosity.” As I started to write it, though, I ended up saying a lot more about a particular topic [...]

As I’d mentioned in earlier entries, we’ve been planning to eventually get rid of much of the forsythia that has overrun our homestead. We finally got started on it this weekend, and it was all thanks to the sewer. Yeah, really…sewer. The township in which our homestead is located requires homeowners to have their sewers [...]

We’ve headed full-on into fall in southcentral PA, and it shows in the temperatures. We’ve been trying to avoid using the furnace, as it’s fueled by oil, and the prices are still outrageous. We invested in a couple of oil-filled electric radiator heaters and have been using those in the rooms in which we spend [...]