I’m Cherie.

I am sadly unphotogenic.

I live in Maine, where I love the ocean and complain about the cold.

I have a husband who builds beautiful things.  His name is Michael.

I have two children who are cuter than yours.  Their names are Annabel and Sam.

My dog is cuter than yours, too.  Her name is Nori.

The cat is only so-so.  Her name is Boo.

I used to keep a blog about our adventures in housebuilding.  Then it turned out there were only so many ways I could write, “Yep, still shingling.”  So it died.  There will be house stuff here, too.  Eventually.  Whenever we are done shingling.  Look for it sometime around 2017.

The “dooryard,” in Maine parlance, is the side yard of a house where the driveway and the backdoor meet.  Peas get shelled in the dooryard, children play in the dooryard, and men stand around and drink beer in the dooryard.  I’ve been looking at mine for a while.  Now I’m trying to look beyond.

You can e-mail me at cheriebeyond@yahoo.com.

I tweet Twitter-y things at cheriebeyond.