Well, the earthquake retrofit is done. It was loud and very messy. I wore my safety ear muffs while I worked on my laptop. It made me oddly...

Because my mind is a sad and boring place, I often stand in the shower after a hard day in the garden and ponder, "What's a gardene...

I didn't really know what I was doing when I built the rain garden in the backyard . For starters, it's comically large. When I do s...

If you give a castor bean plant water and fish emulsion every three weeks and plant it in a sunny place, it will look like this. And th...

My apologies to those of you still buried under snow. It was pretty glorious in Portland this weekend, with the weather hitting 75 degrees. ...

I swear this is the last time. If weather or animals take out this birdbath again, I'm giving up. This is the $5 birdbath that lost...

Last fall, back when I was having the house tested for mold , the guy pointed out that my toilet was rocking and he detected water under the...