Archive: Back Yard

February 8, 2019 : We Are Getting There
October 24, 2016 : Plywood in the Attic
September 10, 2016 : Quickie
July 1, 2016 : Taking Shape
June 14, 2016 : Panorama
June 5, 2016 : The End of an Era
May 31, 2016 : Up on the Rooftop
May 5, 2016 : More Demo
February 7, 2015 : Chipping Weekend
June 2, 2014 : Touristing
December 22, 2013 : Guilty!
March 10, 2013 : Irrigation Controller, Version Umpty
February 2, 2013 : Chipping and Shredding
January 23, 2013 : Garden Report: January 23
September 23, 2012 : Two Rakes
September 22, 2012 : One Rake
September 15, 2012 : Straight and Narrow
September 8, 2012 : Derailing and Railing
September 3, 2012 : Deck Party
August 31, 2012 : Posting About Posts
August 29, 2012 : Posting
August 26, 2012 : A Ton of Dirt
August 19, 2012 : Nothing Doing
August 13, 2012 : Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
August 12, 2012 : Final Touches
August 6, 2012 : Home Stretch
July 7, 2012 : End Trimming
July 1, 2012 : Stair Sides
June 29, 2012 : More Sides to the Deck
June 16, 2012 : Side Work
June 6, 2012 : Cut Away Everything That Isn't a Deck
May 28, 2012 : Lower Steps (Mostly)
May 27, 2012 : Top Step
May 26, 2012 : A Deck Miscellany
May 25, 2012 : First Finish Tests
May 23, 2012 : The Magic of Tools
May 19, 2012 : Protostairs
May 14, 2012 : Plugging Away
May 13, 2012 : Three Little Stringers
May 12, 2012 : Upper Stairs
May 10, 2012 : Five Little Stringers
May 9, 2012 : One Surface
May 2, 2012 : A Brief Deck Update
April 30, 2012 : More Boards
April 29, 2012 : The First Eight Boards
April 26, 2012 : Step One
April 22, 2012 : A Step and Half a Step
April 14, 2012 : Blocking
April 9, 2012 : Building a Raft: Part Three
April 8, 2012 : Building a Raft: Part Two
April 7, 2012 : Building a Raft: Part One
March 30, 2012 : Gardened Up
March 23, 2012 : Heavy Timber
March 11, 2012 : Get Ready for Beams
March 10, 2012 : Under the Setting Sun
May 15, 2011 : Garden Report: May 15
January 14, 2011 : I Only Have Eyes for Glue
January 6, 2011 : Out With the Tank, In With the Tank
January 4, 2011 : Draining the Beast
May 23, 2010 : Building a Pergola
May 15, 2010 : Widened Path
May 2, 2010 : Widening the Path
April 18, 2010 : Before and After
April 7, 2010 : Garden Report: April 7
March 4, 2010 : Raining Cats and Dogs
August 15, 2009 : No Single-Use Tools
May 17, 2009 : Water to the Shed
May 13, 2009 : Excuses, Excuses
April 27, 2009 : Automatic for the Chickens
April 3, 2009 : Random Junk
January 19, 2009 : Like Water for Chickens
January 5, 2009 : Shed Plus Another Italianate
January 3, 2009 : Cleaning the Shed
November 23, 2008 : First Step to the Auto-Door
November 9, 2008 : A Hole in the Ground
November 2, 2008 : Windows and a Personal Gym
August 24, 2008 : A Day of Fewer Projects
August 23, 2008 : A Day of Many Projects
August 9, 2008 : Just Another Busy Weekend Day
July 6, 2008 : Moving Stuff
June 21, 2008 : Behind Door #1
June 16, 2008 : Half a Day of Work
May 4, 2008 : Rest Week
April 26, 2008 : A Dog, a Butterfly, and a Fence
April 20, 2008 : Meeting Our Goals Halfway
April 19, 2008 : Inefficient Assembly Line
April 18, 2008 : If I Had a Stapler
April 13, 2008 : It Was Very Hot Today
April 12, 2008 : And on to the Chicken Yard
April 12, 2008 : A Post About Posts
April 11, 2008 : Fencing
April 3, 2008 : Garden Report: April 3
April 2, 2008 : Chicken Movies
April 2, 2008 : More Chickens
April 1, 2008 : The Life of a Chicken
March 29, 2008 : Chicken Day
March 24, 2008 : Hacking at the Garden
March 22, 2008 : Total Water Recycling
March 22, 2008 : Stuff in My Tank
March 21, 2008 : Stuff on My Tank
March 20, 2008 : Plumbing in the Tank
March 17, 2008 : Spring in Deed if not in Fact
March 8, 2008 : Highway to Compost
March 7, 2008 : Sinking the Tank
February 25, 2008 : On the Level
January 26, 2008 : Figs and Chickens
January 22, 2008 : Another Shed
January 15, 2008 : Four More Apples
January 14, 2008 : Digging More Holes
January 5, 2008 : Tilting at Fences
December 11, 2007 : Graduation Present
November 19, 2007 : I'm Going to Need a Machete
October 21, 2007 : A Brief Update
August 20, 2007 : Boring House Work
July 22, 2007 : Bursting With Produce
July 8, 2007 : Giddy for Tomatoes
July 3, 2007 : Eating from the Garden
June 25, 2007 : Deck Drawings
June 21, 2007 : Official Summer Plants
June 20, 2007 : Sprinkling!
June 18, 2007 : Water in the Orchard
June 10, 2007 : The Last Trench
June 9, 2007 : Piping the Gardens Wild
June 1, 2007 : Deck in the Cards
April 29, 2007 : More Fruit
April 22, 2007 : Clean and Dirty
April 21, 2007 : Roses, Fruit, and Trees
April 8, 2007 : All the Stuff Noel Did
April 1, 2007 : Work of a Weekend
March 13, 2007 : Pink Flowers and Burnt Weeds
March 6, 2007 : Temperate Climates Kick Butt
February 26, 2007 : Scorched Earth Policy
February 16, 2007 : Cold Frame
January 15, 2007 : Hard Frost
January 8, 2007 : January in California
December 9, 2006 : A Handful of Chores
December 4, 2006 : How to Cure a Hangover
December 3, 2006 : How We Take a Day Off
December 2, 2006 : 85 Sacks
November 26, 2006 : Rain and Drains
November 25, 2006 : Dobies and Mesh
November 24, 2006 : Boards and Battens
November 18, 2006 : Sticks and String
October 27, 2006 : Strawberries in November
October 21, 2006 : How I Spent My Day
October 21, 2006 : More Fall Planting
October 15, 2006 : Let There be Warmth
October 13, 2006 : Gone Fishing
October 10, 2006 : Ricocheting Around the Back Yard
October 7, 2006 : Digging Blah Blah Plumbing Blah
September 24, 2006 : Some Notes on Trench Safety
September 23, 2006 : Some Assembly Required
September 21, 2006 : The Theme for This Summer is: Digging
September 20, 2006 : Rearranging the Shrubbery
September 19, 2006 : Moving House
September 19, 2006 : Finished!
September 18, 2006 : Three More Blocks
September 17, 2006 : Only Moderately Obsessed
September 17, 2006 : Looking More Polished
September 16, 2006 : Fussing and Digging
September 14, 2006 : A Foundation for the Shed
September 13, 2006 : I am Definitely NOT Cut Out to be a Digger
September 12, 2006 : Guess What? And Also a Shed
September 11, 2006 : Sore
September 10, 2006 : More Moving, More Digging
September 10, 2006 : Big Pot of Succulents
September 9, 2006 : A Fountain in the Garden
September 8, 2006 : Hummingbirds at the Feeders
September 6, 2006 : Digging More of the Hole
September 4, 2006 : Digging a Hole
August 31, 2006 : The Great Tidy
August 26, 2006 : In Which We Talk About Weeding
August 23, 2006 : Fine-Tuning Winter Planting Plans
August 18, 2006 : Detaching from the Mothership
August 16, 2006 : Hummingbird Wars
August 16, 2006 : More Summer Flowers
August 8, 2006 : A Little Overboard on the Salvias
August 2, 2006 : Strawberry Propagation
August 1, 2006 : Birds on a Wire
July 31, 2006 : Hummingbird in the Mist
July 29, 2006 : Thrivers
July 28, 2006 : Victims of the Heat Wave
July 22, 2006 : More Lilies
July 19, 2006 : Tobaccy in the Garden
July 18, 2006 : Flowers as Big as Your Head
July 17, 2006 : For the Birds
July 14, 2006 : Some Random Garden Photos
July 14, 2006 : Bring on the Hummingbirds
July 9, 2006 : The Colours of the Garden
July 8, 2006 : The Scent of the Garden
July 8, 2006 : Hoopla
June 25, 2006 : Summer Rain
June 24, 2006 : Inching Closer to Sprinklers
June 23, 2006 : Summer is Here
June 17, 2006 : Morning Plant Update
June 11, 2006 : In the Trenches
June 11, 2006 : Don't Fence Me In
June 10, 2006 : Middle of the Manifold
June 10, 2006 : Beginning the Manifold
May 27, 2006 : Garden Triumphs and Tragedies
May 26, 2006 : Too Much Weeding
May 21, 2006 : The World's Most Overdesigned Chicken House
May 13, 2006 : Garden Update
May 9, 2006 : Sowing the Seeds of Evil
May 8, 2006 : Before and After
May 6, 2006 : The Nuclear Option
April 29, 2006 : The Garden: An Overview and Notes
April 23, 2006 : Hours of Invisible Work
April 22, 2006 : Apres le Deluge, Moi
April 19, 2006 : Dog Pond
April 18, 2006 : When It's Raining
March 6, 2006 : History Repeating
February 12, 2006 : Quite the Sod Experts
January 22, 2006 : Our Own Landfill
January 22, 2006 : Paint the Orchard White
January 21, 2006 : More Tree Planting
January 15, 2006 : Plant Yourself an Orchard
January 14, 2006 : More Backbreaking Labour in the Yard
January 2, 2006 : And at Night, the Ice Weasels Come
October 17, 2005 : Fence!
October 9, 2005 : Toil and Trouble -- Film at Eleven
October 8, 2005 : Four Pallets
September 1, 2005 : Front Foundations
August 31, 2005 : Remarkably Little Dirt
August 31, 2005 : The Day the Earth Moved
October 30, 2004 : Nekkid Ladies

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