ranch house

Summer in Texas does not ease in. It arrives, it is immediate, and it is unforgiving. The window between the end of cedar season and the start of triple-digit heat is genuinely short — somewhere around six weeks if you’re lucky — and what you do with that window determines how the rest of your…

There’s something about March in the Hill Country that makes me want to throw open every window, drag everything outside, and start over — and that’s when I use my spring cleaning checklist. The cedar has finally stopped trying to kill everyone, the bluebonnets are threatening to show up, and the house has that particular…