Category Archives: Homestead

The new swimming hole

Posted on June 4, 2009 by MAD

We’ve had a pool since we’ve lived here.  It wasn’t a new pool, though we’d replaced the liner once. In summer of 2007 is succumbed to moles.  They burrowed under the liner, came up for air, popped a significant hole … Continue reading →

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Get Off My Land! (Part 3)

Posted on April 29, 2009 by MAD

This is a follow up to parts 1 and 2. We have yet to deal with the encroachment at the rear of the property, but that’s coming. In the front where we removed the fence, things have gotten a little … Continue reading →

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Get Off My Land! (part 2)

Posted on April 8, 2009 by MAD

A few weeks ago I wrote about a survey that we had done and the encroachments that it turned up.   (read about that here) Today was ‘D-Day’ for the fence up front.  We tried to be a good neighbor.  We … Continue reading →

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Get Off My Land!

Posted on March 16, 2009 by MAD

Man have things changed.  We’re no longer the hip young couple in the old farm house.  We’ve moved on to being the crotchety couple in the farm house (though we have yet to garner the classification of ‘old’).  The old … Continue reading →

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Mouse kill update.

Posted on November 13, 2008 by MAD

  Trap Type # Kills The high-tech snap trap.  Covered, safer, easy to empty and reuse. 5 All others Glue Traps and what not 0   5 in one season is a record, let alone in just 3 days. It’s … Continue reading →

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To catch a mouse.

Posted on November 11, 2008 by MAD

  There are plenty of benefits to living out in the country (or out in the sticks as some would call it). One issue though is that every winter, the little field mice decide they need somewhere warm to stay, … Continue reading →

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