The last week’s weather has put us back into the deep freeze, halting building construction again. We believe that at the current rate we’ll be well into spring before the building is completed, and without thinking too much about it we were planning on having the concrete slab poured after it started warming up, saving [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Farm, Home Projects on January 30th, 2010 | No Comments »

The warmer days are on their way out now. It was nice for a break to have warmer than average days, even though the end of the warm streak brought a fair amount of rain. The problem with rain in the middle of winter is that it can’t soak into the frozen ground. It caused [...]

Filed under: Building Construction 2009-10, Weather on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

We went from unseasonably cold just a few weeks ago, to unseasonably warm the last few weeks. At first it was assumed that the warm spell would be brief, but to our pleasant surprise it still continues.  Of course it’s folly to think that winter is over this early in the year though, so we’re [...]

Filed under: Basil, Building Construction 2009-10, Dog Grooming Business, Home, Home Projects, Pets on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Justin sent a few photos from his deployment to Iraq. Here’s Justin trying a local beverage in Shannon, Ireland while on his way there. A photo of Justin and a friend (Justin’s on the left) from Balad Airbase in Iraq, and one of Justin molesting a bird (I don’t even want to ask…) The rest [...]

Filed under: Justin on January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »