Add that dude to my bird list. I hadn’t seen one in a while, but just had one at a suet feeder on a tree. Funny little things go round and round the tree trunk in a spiral.

I made the wren hoce today; I had plenty of scrap left from the vertical bird hoces. Since I decided to make the side open instead of the front, I needed to support the long perch. It took some ripping, and a few re-cuts because the angle was different,  but I finished it. I decided […]

The poor thing was starting to get yellow fronds because I couldn’t water it much, and it couldn’t hold water because it was all roots. I’ve had the soil for ages, but kept putting off the repotting. I wish I hadn’t, and I hope Palmzilla forgives me. It looked so healthy after spring and summer […]

I went out at lunch and got a 1-1/4″ spade bit to drill holes in the chunk of crabapple I cut on Sunday. The bit was almost long enough to go all the way through, and since I had the guide hole because the point did go through, I fudged it with a hole saw […]

I had an hour less daylight today, and I had to haul more leaves back to the creek (most will be winter mulch, some will be compost), so it was nearly dark when I started, but I did get one hoce up in a tree. I don’t think it’s high enough, but it was as […]

Friday after work, I used the 1/2″ drill I’d borrowed from B to drill out some aluminum that C had let me get from the scrap bin. Would’ve been easier with a drill press, but I managed. They were free, and nothing is going to peck or chew through them, so they’re perfect. I also […]

I started right after I got home, and probably would’ve finished had it not been for the Board From Hell, which was: a. 8′ long; and b. cupped/warped/something that made the saw want to bind, which doesn’t put me in my happy place when I’m here alone and could bleed to death before anyone found […]

These two are from Friday after work. I topped up the pond, and disturbed a new friend. He’s a Southern leopard frog, so I named him Cletus. It’s too bad it’s so late in the season, because with a little more time, the gaillardia in Sarah-Flah’s garden would make me a flower. Now, this morning! […]

I got my mixed giant croci today; earlier than expected! Nice-looking bulbs. After making one experimental hole, I decided the ground needed wetting before I plant them. It may rain this weekend, and if it doesn’t, I’ll have to put out the sprinklers again. Besides, it was 81 degrees, and I’ve had enough of sweating […]

I was getting concerned about keeping the Spicebush Doot-doots and Luna-to-be indoors with artificial heat and light, when I need them to stay in their little sleeping bags until spring. I’d got 2x2s on Monday (even if RP actually delivered the lattice, cedar board and 2x2s to D’s across the street and I didn’t find […]