Greetings and Happy Fall! I was originally inspired to write this blog post by a conversation I had with my friend Helen about home maintenance. I was telling her about an adorable litter of baby opossums that kept wandering into my bedroom through my open garden door, and how I kept having to gently scoop them up and carry them back out to the garden. Helen then mentioned that she was having skunk issues under her house. This led me to give her the number of a reliable pest

Happy Fall Everyone! I've been on a serious bender removing items from rooms. If you follow me on Instagram (@kempjane), and I sincerely hope you do, you'll have watched my Instagram Stories where I pulled a full carload of bits and bobs from my house, originally earmarked a year ago for a garage sale that never happened, and dropped them off at Goodwill and our local recycling center. I'll be honest in admitting donating this stuff was tough - mainly because I have a knack f