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We are always filling up her water bowl because she keeps putting her front paws in it and splashing and playing with all the water, there’s nothing left to drink. Anytime we get the hose out to water the plants, she runs in the water spray and keeps “biting” water as it comes ...
When Burr and Edythe Allen moved from Iowa to Spokane in 1913, they stopped a ways out from the city and bought a 10-acre spread of land to farm and plant an orchard. The next year, they erected a two-story house with a big front porch along “The Appleway,” the main road throug...
Juanita had gone “whole hog” on this holiday. American flags hung from the front porch and draped the cyclone fence. Two small children sat in the front yard shooting bottle rockets at the cars driving on Jacksboro Highway, and the chickens were wrapped in red-white-and-blue crepe paper ...
The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds. Against their depredations, a small black sentinel was stationed on the front porch. Armed with a ...
Though you'll see a top overall pick on the list, we also included choices for specific parts of the home — the kitchen, the bathroom, high-traffic hallways, the front porch and so on. Our team might to love to torture paint, but we also like to see it shine in the perfect home...
December 2, 2018 byThe Minnesota Farm Woman “Well, we tried the lutefisk trick to keep the raccoons away and it worked, but now there’s a family of Norwegians living under the front porch!” ~Author unknown, from an Ole and Lena joke ...
My father was waiting on the front porch with the meat tenderizer poised to strike. He said, “What? Did you escape from jail?” I laughed and told him I was not guilty. I got a job in a chewing gum factory. My job is to watch packs of chewing gum go by on the rubber conveyo...
Need for quiet time:Be prepared to give your loved one a space where they can decompress if necessary. If you are at someone else’s home, perhaps a guest bedroom or if the weather cooperates, a breath of fresh air on the porch could be ideal. Sometimes, a drive around the block may...
The afternoon was crisp, brilliant, and the front door was open to the porch, the television crew chatting on the steps. The agent went into a crouch, down on our level, looking us each in the eye, his flak scar tightening. ”That was the lab,” he said. ”We sent her bedding to...