It rained all day on Friday, so I did some house cleaning and did the laundry. I also saw Cletus; since I don’t hear him singing anymore, and he’s mostly nocturnal, it’s hard to tell whether he’s there or not. Schrodinger’s frog. Apparently, sansavieria blooms when it’s abused. Both of mine are going to bloom. […]
It both amuses and horrifies me that so very many people do not know how to correctly spell the word, “bowl”. It’s four fucking letters, for christ’s sake; if you made it through second grade, you should be able to manage it! I was looking for native American lotus plants to see whether they’d tolerate […]
They’re pretty scrawny, and appear to still be dormant, so I’m withholding feedback for the time being, but they were very well packaged, and I’ll assume a registered nursery sent me actual ninebark and not weedy maple like that arsehole in MA did. We’ll see…they certainly don’t look like much now!
I learned a new skill! I was trying to find an adhesive that would stick to polyethylene foam, and discovered it was very easy to heat-weld. I borrowed a heat gun from work, and bought four pieces of pipe insulation. I’ve seen people make floats by zip-tying the insulation to the pots, but I think […]
It doesn’t look like much, but the pothos are just cuttings, the taro just got repotted, and the rest I just got yesterday. They’ll either grow or die; up to them, but they’re on the island. Now I just have to decide where to tether it. Maybe the middle…dunno. Finally got warm enough to inspire […]
I wasn’t up for any huge projects this weekend, so I decided to just “putter”. I still got a few things done, though, and spent a lot of time either messing around with the pond (I found and fixed the low spot this morning), or just watching…stuff in the pond. Friday after work, I still […]
I just watched one take a bath barely 6′ from where I’m sitting beside the pond. A boy, tiny and cute! Eleven days ago, it was a male Myrtle (Yellow-rumped) Warbler bathing 15′ away. I may curse the pond sometimes, but I’m very glad I made it. Big Bertha, Michigan Jane Frog, and Cletus in […]
I ordered them from a nice lady on ebay, and they arrived yesterday. I can think of about half a dozen things I’d rather have done after work than dig in wet ground because it rained for three days, but roots need to be in the dirt, so dig I did! I made a spot […]
I got the damned thing to work—Hallelujah! That’s four IT issues solved in as many days: We downgraded QB from 2016 to 2013 because Intuit pissed us off by forcing an update that would require us to change our passwords every 90 days, and making me spend 45 minutes on the phone with what they laughingly […]
I’m just now catching up not because I did a lot last week (I didn’t) but because I did so little that it wasn’t really worth writing. The weekend, however, I didn’t waste even though it was cold. Week stuff. I’m glad I didn’t pull these, thinking they were lady’s finger because they are actually […]