Jennifer Murphy's photos with the keyword: yankee ingenuity

I found and old fiberglass transformer cover for sale and bought it to use as a raised garden bed. It looks for all the world like a giant window box. Before everything froze up I stuck branches of anything that looked tempting to birds into the soil. I don't like putting out feeders, but I'll gladly offer up a natural buffet. The little Juncos are in the "garden" all day long, flitting through the branches and picking away at the seeds. I like to think this little one was saying thank you. crankyoldyankee.blogspot.com/2021/11/first-snowtime-to-wrap-it-up.html

I couldn't pull the fence tight enough with my hands, so I devised a fence puller out of a length of copper pipe and some pieces of chain I found hanging around the barn. Hooked them up to Reputa and shazam! My fence is lookin' pretty tight now.

In another effort to reduce their exposure to flies, I've put some cheap curtains across the entrance to the mules' run in shed. It took them a few hours to wind up the courage to walk through them, but once they figured out the run in was bug free, they had no problem dealing with flapping fabric. I secured some heavy fishing weights on the bottom to keep them from blowing up too far in the wind.