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I haz a corm!

September 15, 2009

The squir­rels and I, we have a love/hate rela­tion­ship.  In gen­eral, I like them, and I like hav­ing them around, but I really dis­like it when they steal from the bird feeder.  As such, I do a few things to pro­tect the feeder, which some­times esca­lates to shoot­ing the squir­rels with a squirt gun.  The […]

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Working in the trenches

September 6, 2008

I just show­ered while wear­ing cloth­ing.  It was not delight­ful and invig­o­rat­ing.  It was squitchy and gross.  I guess I should explain that I was caked from head to foot in mud from dig­ging trenches and form­ing mounds in the front yard.  The ground is hard and clay-like and the grass is like thick carpet, […]

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Notes from the overground

January 19, 2008

1. Near-freezing tem­per­a­tures today: the weather could not make up its mind whether to rain, snow, or hail this morn­ing. 2. Mas­sage.  Yeay!  My back’s still pretty f’ed up, yo.  Usu­ally, the mas­sage helps, but today things were espe­cially bad.  I’ve lost weight, though–most of my pants no longer fit me–but my back is a […]

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If only prawn grew on trees

May 6, 2006

For the longest time (actu­ally, until just now), I thought that a shrimp plant is a hibis­cus plant.  We had one (the shrimp plant) grow­ing up, and I always just though that “shrimp plant” was a sort of slang term that my par­ents made up.  They both have bright red petals.  Hibis­cus is used for […]

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January 24, 2006

Note to self (because del.icio.us is, once again, teh brok3n): inter­est­ing way to grow toma­toes indoors dur­ing the win­ter months

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The Day

May 15, 2005

Yester­day, Kim and I did a lot of work in her back yard–digging up and turn­ing over the nasty clay soil as well as yank­ing out weeds.  We were going to meet up with Fee­dle for lunch, but that did not pan out, so we ended up hang­ing out after our respec­tive yards were worked […]

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Phone Photo Post

May 7, 2005

Tonight, we feast on radishes!

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Dirt and Leaves

March 7, 2005

Kim and I did some excel­lent gar­den­ing this week­end.  We started by build­ing a raised bed out of scrap lum­ber.  A trip to the nurs­ery later, we were the proud own­ers of some­thing like nine bags of pot­ting soil, a num­ber of pots, and assorted other things.  This would have been impos­si­ble in a little […]

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