Things with “French” in the title are usually fancy, right? Poodles, perfume, pastries. But a French drain is nothing more than a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated drain pipe under a ...

I called my daughter-in-law to see what she was doing on a day when we were having a deluge of rain. She told me she was watching her children divert water that was coming into their yard which was ...