What does it mean to build a teardrop? For several years, I have read, edited and even written numerous teardrop build stories and with each one my interest increases. From the planning, plotting and even problem solving, it is awesome to see a builder start with what...

Cool Tears is excited to announce a partnership with the Heartland Tearjerkers group! For several weeks now, I have been scheming with the group leaders about a gathering this fall that would be open to Cool Tears readers. 

So here is the scoop: Oktoberfest will be held...

So we have cats.

Lots.

Owning a few acres that sits directly next to a field and a cow pasture means we have cats.

When we first moved in I took a free MALE kitten and then a little less than a year later HE gave birth to 7 kittens on my kitchen floor. Needless to say we...

Michael Cubberley is a rookie shop teacher with a passion to have a real impact in the lives of his students. He spent part of the year having them build small projects but the biggest project is a teardrop camper that the students are building to sell to pay for next...