Homestead

Joshua on July 28th, 2008

Our front lawn as it turns out is mostly not grass.  We’ve known that for a while.  Wesley and I spent a few weekend pulling weeds and all that was left was dirt mostly.  So we decided to redo the lawn.  To that end we haven’t been watering at all this summer (the front yard […]

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Joshua on May 27th, 2008

Summer has arrived in Texas.  A bit early even by Texas standards.  Apparently it is a La Nina year which is associated with hot and dry.  Boy are we excited. Last year we had lots of rain.  Record levels of rain.  I didn’t water anything and most things survived.  Even so some of the smaller […]

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Joshua on May 14th, 2008

We just had our first big tornado scare. The big storm was predicted to hit us with a “tornado likelihood” in Wells Branch of 6.8/10. The weather folks couldn’t sound more excited that they were getting to use their new toys. They did their best to temper it with concern, but it was pretty obvious. […]

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Joshua on April 5th, 2008

It started last Friday. I opened the sliding glass door to help cool the house down because Becca was coming over to get ready before her wedding. It was nice by the way, but not what this is about. As soon as I opened the door Wesley took a couple of big sniffs and said […]

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