We all have our eccentricities. I have mine, I’ll bet you have yours. Sometimes they’re things we don’t share with the whole world. Or maybe what goes on at home isn’t known in the office, and vice versa.
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Recycling re-eccentricity
Posted in gardening, humor, nature, technology, thoughts, walking on April 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Wham-bam toodle-oo, bamboo, and pictures, too — part four
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, nature, pets on March 31, 2008 | 16 Comments »
So it works now. I have this nifty ”visual” toolbar in my WordPress “Write” screen, along with my “code” toolbar, and it makes it way easier to place photos in the post. No more hassling with pictures running off the screen, etc. Once I import the picture I’ve cropped elsewhere I have a little box I grab [...]
Out of the Bamboonies — part three
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, rants on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
New little pointy-headed shoots of bamboo are peeking up in new places both in and outside of our raised bed. Being a weekend gardener/warrior (spawn of Schwarzenegger and Martha Stewart?), I rip out what I can on a Sunday, then am gone for the work week, and come back the next weekend to raise pick [...]
Ka-WHUMP! Bark-bark-bark-bark!
Posted in animals, commute, dogs, gardening, life, pets, travel on March 27, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Sometime shortly after 7 last night, we had finished dinner and were transitioning toward evening activities when we heard a loud “Ka-WHUMP!” from the street. We felt it, too, especially the dogs, who immediately adrenalized into watchdog action: “bark-bark-bark-bark!” and the alarm was sounded. Almost simultaneously, the sirens began.
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The root of the problem — part two
Posted in beer, dogs, entertainment, gardening, life, movies, pets on March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Bamboo stalks and leaves are easy enough to whack away and dispose of. It’s the rhizomes that wear you out.
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Bamboozled - part one
Posted in dogs, e-scrapbook, gardening, humor, nature, pets, rants on March 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I am going to write to you about bamboo, and what is entailed in its removal. This is part of why I’ve been so delinquent recently. Or remiss, at least — time spent with pick and shovel more often leading to collapse in the easychair than tapping a keyboard.
But first, some happy news on the [...]
The wellsprings, for a friend
Posted in gardening, life, nature, writing on November 23, 2007 | 12 Comments »
The rains come down gentle, kissing foliage, or they pound down hard and forceful, lashing the trees; they arrive as steady, dull and gray as a morning commute, hour after hour, or the waters reach us not as rain at all, but as mists and fogs, as the heavy morning dew drenching the rags wiping [...]
Envying the French
Posted in TV, gardening, life, politics, television, thoughts on April 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Imagine being able to vote your heart and your conscience, having a chance to choose the candidate who best represents your views, without having to sacrifice pragmatism.
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Butterfly bushes, plum trees, and Hinduism
Posted in gardening, life, nature on February 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We have a butterfly bush in our backyard, a shrub we keep as much for the colorful flutter-bys it attracts as for its slender leafy branches. The problem is, it was too close to an upstart ornamental plum tree. (Can a tree be feral?) (more…
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