All but the last one are photos from our house in Big Falls, WI. We have lost a number of additional large trees since these photos were taken. Maples, Ash, and the Crabapple tree was crushed when the large green ash fell on it.
I had enough fun footage of Akiva and his frog toy that I put the highlights into a video. You can watch him stalk it, pounce on it, and play with it. The video’s even better than the photos.
Akiva has been with me for a long time, and going through the photos from over the years always brings up a lot of good memories. He’s been there for everything — the apartment years, the early blog days, countless walks and car rides and naps on the couch. That photo of young me hugging…
Firewood at the farm up in Waupaca. A good long row of it, cut, split, and stacked at the edge of the lawn with the woods rising up behind. A whole lot of work went into stacking all of this.
⚠ Safety note: I am not a licensed electrician. This post shares my own DIY experience for general information only. Home electrical work is hazardous and is governed by local code. Always shut off power at the breaker and confirm it is off before touching any wires, follow the codes that apply where you live,…
Every spring I have the same argument with myself in the seed aisle. The tomatoes are right there, the afternoon is warm, and some optimistic part of my brain insists it’s fine to put them in the ground this weekend. The cautious part remembers the year a late-May frost flattened a whole flat of seedlings…
Update (October 2026) Twitter is now X, and the real site lives at x.com, so the address advice below has changed. The rest still holds: check the address bar before you log in anywhere. And turn on two-factor authentication, so a stolen password alone isn’t enough to get into your account. What’s Phishing? by: Jamie…