Hi Friend, The maple leaves in the yard fell a while ago. I kind of mowed them to make them more mulch-ier, and then half the oak leaves dropped. And oak leaves are as thick as leather. Not mower friendly either. The oaks will hold onto the other half
Hi Friend, Oh look, its October! Fog in the meadow when we are in the park. I made some vids for you: Watch Here: Porch Painting Goes Big, 2 Bee Vids, & Rugs As Weed Barriers GardenFork Radio: I recorded new podcasts for you Phone app link here, website link
Hi Friend, Spike at the dog beach in the park. She is not a big swimmer, but is more social at the beach. Saying hello to small children in strollers who have snack remnants in the bottom of their stroller. I made some vids for you: Watch Here: Rug That
Hi Friend, Oh, another day, another puddle for Andy in the park. Lots of rain has provided many opportunities to cover oneself in mud on the way home. This week we did get the storms, but very little tree damage, thankfully. Now its in the 90s, going to make sure
Hi Friend, What more can I say about Andy and water. She is in water just about every day. When we get close to a pond she knows, or the dog beach at the park in BKLN, she looks at us, gets the nod to run ahead, and she and
Hi Friend, This is Spike's typical morning pond ritual. Stand there in chest deep water and look around. Andy is throw-the-ball non-stop. White swans built a nest near this part of the pond this spring, and hover at the fence and hiss at the dogs.
Hi Friend, Andy & Spike on an afternoon walk just before a storm in Prospect Park. It has been non-stop storms on the east coast. Some big trees down. I made some more vids for you: The Big Hive Before It Went Sideways - My Weed Plan Just Went Sideways
Hi Friend, Spike & Andy at a nature preserve up at the house in the woods. They are great walking dogs. Sometimes they get a little too far from us, but they do have pretty good recall. Spike has a much better nose, when her fur goes up we know
Hi Friend, Next to the spring in our backyard is an old clawfoot tub that is filled from the overflow of the cistern. It has always been a favorite place for our Labs. We can be in the yard and Andy will walk to the edge of the yard and
Hi Friend, Here is Spike at the dog beach in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. She has recovered enough from knee surgery that we can walk to the beach and Andy gets to swim. You might be able to see Andy in the back of this photo. Spike and I will go
Hi Friend, It looks weird, but its a good way to give you bees supplemental food in the days of spring that go hot-cold quickly. And its a key part of my latest video. I added a second hive on Brian's roof. It is doing well. Here
Hi Friend, 2 years ago Spike tore her cranial cruciate ligament in her left knee. She had surgery at Eclipse Specialty Surgical & ER in New Jersey. Excellent people if you live in the tri-state area. Dr. Miller, Spike's surgeon, told us she had a 50% chance
Hi Friend, Rapid snow melt in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Days like this only the dedicated dog people are out. We are a special few. I just got done recording the podcast with Erik of the Root Simple podcast. It was a good reason to touch base. And today I started
This is Spike after getting her CBD chews, ready for the car ride to BKLN. (info below) When I first started this second email for the newsletter, I called it Cool Stuff, to share other people's vids, posts, and gear that I think you might find interesting. But
Hi Friend, Had to cut trails in the yard for the Labs to go outside last weekend. Running the snowblower is such a satisfying thing for me. You are one with the machine. That annoying thing that guy said yesterday stops running on the hamster wheel in your head while
Hi Friend, Above is about 130 lbs of Labrador who love to jump on your bed when you are trying to sleep. Sometimes Andy asks to jump up. Spike does not. Finally a break in the cold, that if you live North, you have experienced. Last week one day almost
Hi Friend, Biggest storm in many years here in BKLN. About 12" of mostly powder followed by some ice pellets. The Labs love the park in snow, but it gets hard to move through the meadow so we have been walking on the paths. The car is surrounded by
Hi Friend, A throwback to 4 years ago, here's Henry and Spike. Following the successful shop drawers install (vid here) I tried to put some clear storage containers in the space between the large drawers and the table top. This, of course, was not as simple as I
Hi Friend, OK the snow hasn't melted yet. But Andy & Spike are fine with that. Lots of rolling in the snow, and eating it. Do your pups eat snow? Do you? I do. GF Radio: Rick's Flaming Bags Of Dog Poop. Rick titled this episode
Hi Friend, Brooklyn has snow. And Andy likes the snow. There you go, that's the shortest opening paragraph of the newsletter ever. But here in the second paragraph we'll talk about how Prospect Park has closed the dog beach for the season. On the morning walk
Hi Friend, Here is Spike at the dog beach in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. We are here most BKLN mornings. Soon the Parks Dept. will close the beach for the winter, else less than smart people will try to walk on the ice. But every morning we walk here, knowing one
Hi Friend, Behind Spike is some really cool bespoke peel and stick wallpaper from an artist on Etsy. I did not make a video about this as it was a stressful challenge to hang the wallpaper on 130 yr old walls that are not square or plumb. TLDR - Buy a
Hi Friend, First snow up at the house. Kinda sorta dusting, but it was actual snow. And because my lawnmower/leaf mulcher is being repaired (video to come) the snow is on top of all the oak leaves. Nice. Of course, the cold and frost days came faster than I
Hi Friend, Andy is wicked smart. She is always studying things. Meanwhile Spike wags her tail through the day. Not planned, but cast iron pans and pizzas are featured in some of the new vids, plus the bees, who I just prepared for winter. Fingers crossed :) Ask me a question