Make, Build, Sew, Paint, Dig, Dog, DIY … (and if all else fails, cover it with fairy lights)
Welcome to Veranda Beach. Do you have big plans for the summer? I’m hoping ours will involve warm temps and sunshine, both of which have been muy absent for the past week. I actually dragged …
“I wish it was three years from now.” There are only two contexts I can think of when I’ve ever dared utter those “wish-your-life away” words: When I was fifteen. Whenever we make a change to the …
Does this picture ring a bell? You might think you recognize it from last year just after I broke my knee. If so, this is actually the photo your enviable elephant memory is conjuring: …which means …
I’m celebrating a couple of things today! First: we finished planting the area around our new DIY dry stack stone walls. (If this is your first visit to D&D, you can read about our July …
Yeesh! Nothing will make you appreciate a Buffalo winter like building a two-layer DIY stacked stone retaining wall in July! It’s been hot, hard, heavy work; but we’re really happy we did it. 🙂 A bonus: …
Mr. D&D and I have always loved stacked stone walls. We’ve long been inspired by this very lengthy wall that borders a main road near our neighborhood. …as well as this mortared one in front of …
