I decided to work in my flowerbed today.  I was sitting on the ground, pulling weeds and checking on the progress of the newly planted flowers.  I had been out there for about an hour when I heard a soft growl behind me.   I turned around to see a large black Newfoundland dog about three [...]

My brother just tells me that he bought a house in California.  He says the house is almost perfect except that he and his wife are going to want to remodel the kitchen.  They are going to enlarge it by knocking out a hallway wall and using that space to add a lot more cabinets.
They want to [...]

My neighbor across the street has a beautiful Irish Setter dog named Chauncey.  During the day, when my neighbor and his wife go to work, they leave the dog inside the house.   The wife (who does not like Chauncey) gets home before the husband gets home, and when she gets home she puts Chauncey outside [...]

When my son was house hunting, moving from Virginia to Tennessee, he spent a very long time looking for the perfect house.  I thought he’d never find the house he wanted!
Of course, with a limited amount of money for a down payment, and a limited monthly income at the time, some concessions had to be made. 
He wanted 3 [...]