Clever ways to hang fly strips

Living on a ranch has all kinds of benefits. This time of year, we are rich with flies. Not year 'round, thank goodness. But we have our share. For the barns we add thousands of parasitical wasps and keep the barns as clean as possible. That means mucking and hauling poop on a semi-regular basis. …

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Painted Upper Kitchen Cabinets

What a journey! Painting cabinets has never been my forte but, if you're like me, you'd learn how to paint what ever you needed to paint to get some relief from the darkness. Dark doors, dark window trim, dark cove molding, dark base boards, and all dark wood cabinets ... dark wood EVERYWHERE. Sounds simple …

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Leaving the 1980’s Dark Living Room Panelling Behind – Pathouie

After living with terribly ugly 1980's dark yucky paneling that poorly mimics planks for twelve years, we're finally painting our living room. Why anyone would have selected this pitiful paneling in the first place, I'll never know. It just doesn't fit the room. Halve of our living room is vaulted to about fourteen feet high …

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