I think we need to spank the Beaver …

Last week was a productive one up at the land. The weather has been cool, but dry for the most part, and we made a lot of progress. Unfortunately, while we were up there this weekend, we discovered that our resident beaver has been up to it’s usual mischief again. It seems that the nice [...]

What’s up with this weather?

Well, it’s official. The weather this year has got to be the strangest we’ve ever seen. Thursday afternoon, February 16th, it was almost 60 degrees, even up at the land. By Saturday, temperatures had dropped into the low teens, and they hit single digits Saturday night. Amazingly, the front that came through didn’t produce any [...]

We’re getting there…

Well, in the last few days, we’ve endured snow, mud and some generally strange February weather, but still managed to make good progress toward clearing the house site. I was able to spend a couple afternoons there last week, Sue and I hit it hard over the past weekend, and I made it up there [...]

Oh no, more taxes?!

Well, now I’ve heard everything …. I just found out the State of Ohio is so hard up for money, that they’ve imposed a new tax …. a CAT tax. It’s going to hit us really hard, since we have three cats, and we really can’t expect the cats to pay it. I [...]

Meetings, Mud and Chainsaws

I met with the building inspector on Thursday, January 19th and, all-in-all, things went very well. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the Morrow County officials have anticipated the upcoming septic rules changes, and made some changes in their procedures to help property owners like us get in under the wire. They’ve [...]