The Fates have conspired against me. Again.

As I leapt out of bed Friday morning, wide awake and eager to start my day, I thought to myself:
“Self, after your coffee and morning feeding chores, after you get the kid’s snack and lunch ready and drop her off at school, you just have to make a quick jaunt to town, pick up a [...]

If it we did a ‘before and after’ picture, the basement would be before the before.

Wow.  I’d almost forgotten what this site looks like. 
It has been a while since I’ve had the time to write a post – it’s not that there hasn’t been anything to write about – because we’ve been busy with processing chickens, harvesting our garden, trapping three evil raccoons, fixing up the dogyard, repairing our fourwheeler (after [...]