back deck

From a Metro PD presser this morning:

If you’re like me, you get an idea in your head of what you want and it sticks there. I need a simple shed to put mowers and the tractor under just to keep them out of the sun and rain. The back deck already has something exactly like that over it and it’s basically aluminum or steel posts that are 3″ square that support some beam-like things shaped like a C.

So I'm sipping my coffee and minding my own bidness this morning, reading my e-mail and listening to classical music out on my back deck. It's sunny and a light breeze is wafting the fragrance of my Casablanca lily across the yard. Then I come upon this mass-forwarded email from somebody named Lowdog:

Despite the time I spent this morning trying to devise new ways to keep them from going to the bathroom on our back deck, I am now grateful for the sanity of our dogs.

jonathanhickman.com

By the end of the day I was suffering from a migrane so bad I was about in tears.  But I took four Tylenol and am feeling much better now.  The Butcher and I ended up relooking at two houses–one on Kentucky and one on Litton.

I love them both.

But I don’t know if I want to buy either of them.

We’ve had the worst trouble keeping our dogs in our newly fenced in back yard. Obviously I’m talking about the two little dogs, not the soon-to-be-huge Leo pup. Katie had trouble at her old house - complete with chain link fence.

I have this interesting barn that I look at from my back deck. There’s usually 3 horses in the pasture next to my house but the neighbor must have removed the other 2 stallions since the mare must be in heat. All 3 of the horses usually come to the fence if I’m [...]

Eric, the original Straight White Guy, and his lovely Missus are off on their annual trek to Scotland to pay homage to her homeland and make the yearly plea for her family to continue allowing him to claim kinship by marriage.