Lawn & Garden

Here in our quaint yet not-so-sleepy North Florida town, there are trees everywhere. After just about every storm (and we've had our share of hurricanes recently), trees come tumbling down all over the place. Chainsaws are almost mandatory here. Most of us have been using gas-powered chainsaws for ages. Even …

Summer is gone and Fall has arrived! 🍂 Well, unless you're here in North Florida, where it's still 100 degrees, icky-sticky from the humidity, and the ground is as dry as a bone. We are slowly starting to see some temperature changes at night and a few leaves just giving …

A while back we covered a handy little work light from LOFTEK that we really liked. While digging through the LOFTEK website, we saw a bunch of other cool lights they offer so grabbed a few, including a surprisingly useful 12" LED Cube Light. With our cover photo looking more like …

When we set out to simplify our lives by moving back to a smaller town after 20 years (and thanks for sticking with us and our lack of posts... it's been quite the disruptive journey, to say the least!), that also included a smaller home and yard with less maintenance. …

Just in time for Mother's Day, I needed to tackle a few chores around my own mother's house. One of those jobs included the long-overdue pressure washing of her back patio—it was full of dirt, mold, and grime.🤮 I've got a few pressure washers—both my own and those from various …

Late spring, early summer means fertilizer time for many of us. And for those with smaller yards, a push broadcast spreader is just too much. Handheld spreaders are a better choice but can be a real pain to operate—two hands are needed to operate the manual crank, which tends to jam …

Whether on the porch, patio, deck, in the backyard or even at the RV park, sometimes we just need a place to put our stuff to keep it clean and dry outdoors. Old-school metal sheds are big, expensive and are basically permanent fixtures, while smaller decorative plastic storage boxes rarely …

Face it: cordless is the way forward. And using a cordless lawn mower doesn’t make you any less of a man (or woman). Sure, the smell of gas, oil, dirt, and grime make us wanna grunt like Tim Allen, but most of the power tools we’re already using are cordless and …

While we’re still in the midst of Spring and quickly approaching the Summer months, Black+Decker just informed us about an upgrade to their popular 3-in-1 leaf blower, vacuum, and mulcher combo, which is slated to be released just before Fall this year (2017). The new Black+Decker 3-in-1 VACPACK features an easy-to-wear backpack leaf collection bag …

When we were getting ready to sell our last house about a year ago, I replaced all of the mulch in our flower beds, but only because it looked bad after a year of baking in the hot Florida sun. I’d done the same thing a few years in a …