Dear Ginormous Oak Tree Towering in My Front Yard, I don’t love you anymore. If we’re being frank, and I don’t know why I wouldn’t because I’m talking to a tree, I’...
There are a few things that you wouldn’t want to live without here in the state of Florida… Flip-flops and sunglasses. Coconut rum. A copy of Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hits. Oh yeah,Â...
I enjoy the outdoors alright … I suppose. I mean, I look at it through the window every day, not to mention passing it whenever I walk from my front door out to my car in the driveway … le...
Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant in the world with certain species able to grow as much as three feet in a single day’s time. While known primarily for its cultural significance throughout A...
I’d like to have a word with the guy who installed the AC vents in my house. I don’t know if he just happened to be extraordinarily tall or if there’s actually some boring, scienti...
You’d probably think that I’d be happy … perhaps even excited about this, but I assure you I’m really not. Sure, chainsaws are among the manliest of tools, whether you’...
There are plenty of normal things I fully would’ve expected to discover in that attic – boxes of random junk left behind by the previous owner, bats, or maybe even a homeless person who h...
Of all the shades of green in my days – forest green, mint green, maybe even a little avocado – I can’t say as though I’ve ever gazed upon a thing, be it animal, vegetable, or mineral, and tho...
Do you know how trees even work?! Do I have to worry about disturbing its delicate tree balance by not taking into account some sort of feng shui or magical forestry voodoo before I make my first cut?...
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I happen to have it on good authority that I may, in fact, be getting older… I’m no more happy about it than you are, but the signs around me are getting harder...