If you spend any time at all raking clams, you will, inevitably, lose a tine. Maybe you hit a rock, maybe just a big clam, maybe regular use loosens an imperfect weld. Tines break, and when you don’t have all your tines you can’t clam as efficiently, so it behooves you to get them fixed. [...]
Everything on our property is dirty. The eaves on the house are coated with tree crud. The siding on the shed is turning green. The armada, every boat of it, is slimy on the bottom and grimy on the top. And don’t even get me started on the cars. And, now, today, at the ripe [...]
It was back in September that Kevin decided to pound the last nail in the coffin of our urban-sophisticate image by building a chicken plucker out of an old washing machine. He acquired the machine, for free, from a very nice real estate broker in Orleans. He stripped it down to just console and drum, [...]
I thought we had every kind of saw known to man. We have manual saws and power saws, wood saws and metal saws. We have a chop saw and a circular saw and four – count ‘em, four – chain saws. We have a Sawzall, a tool with a name that we’ve discovered is not [...]
I’ve only plucked poultry once. It’s a long story involving a wild turkey and car accident, so I won’t go into it just now, but it taught me that removing feathers from birds is a tedious, time-consuming job. Since we have four turkeys and seven chickens that will eventually need plucking, Kevin has been looking [...]
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This land is Deerland
Zinc again
This land is Deerland
Zinc again
Rats!