The last couple of weeks, we’ve had a bunch of big spiders running around, in spite of our spider traps. We particularly notice them downstairs in the TV room, where there must be some kind of spider continental divide that they cross as initiation or something. We’ll be watching a movie, and suddenly a big [...]
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Attack of the Spiders
Posted in Leave It Alone, The Inexplicable, Wildlife on August 23, 2011 |
The Summer Visitor
Posted in I Can't Eat This, Leave It Alone, Uncategorized, Wildlife on August 9, 2011 |
This big-little guy, striped like a watermelon, came to visit last week. Turns out he’s a ten-lined June beetle.
Place Your Bets
Posted in Leave It Alone, Plants on May 30, 2011 |
OK, I placed my bet, and as I am reminded at least once a day, I lost. The beautyberry bush, which I thought was dead and would have yanked out of the ground and thrown on the compost heap, is ALIVE. It even has two tiny leaves. Maybe three. Crisis averted. This because The Other [...]
Screens
Posted in Leave It Alone, Uncategorized, Yum on May 5, 2011 |
Last weekend, we took all of the screens in the outdoor room down, and took the screened doors to the room off too. We wanted something breezier and more open, and we got it. Photos to follow. Along the way, we took down two old speakers that had been hanging up in that outdoor room. [...]
Saturday Morning Horrow Show
Posted in Current Affairs, Leave It Alone, Wildlife on March 15, 2011 |
I couldn’t start the week with terror, so yesterday’s post was about robins – friendly, happy robins. Today’s post is about spiders. Scary, dead spiders. We’ve taken to setting spider traps around 963 in different spots: the furnace room, the storage room, behind the downstairs couch, and so on. Yesterday we took a look at [...]
One Floor Done, Ah ha ha!
Posted in Floors, Leave It Alone on February 10, 2011 |
After much toil and travail, one floor is finished! Baseboards aren’t on yet, but you’ll get the idea. Such tidy, good-looking work from the Floor Doer. The Floorer. The Person Who Layeth the Floors. Good job, you.
Surprise #3
Posted in Current Affairs, Leave It Alone, Tips on January 27, 2011 |
Today it occurs to me that the wrench hidden in the wall could be THE wrench, by Miss Scarlett, in the Billiard Room.
Third Time’s the Charm?
Posted in Current Affairs, Floors, Leave It Alone on January 24, 2011 |
Maybe. The Other One started laying the floor again, this time after a couple of boxes of dip-filler (that’s not its official name, but don’t you think it should be?) and a bag of whatever is one step short of self-leveling compound. Let’s call that self-leveling compound-1. Anyhoo, the additives made the floor a little [...]
What I Didn’t Get a Photo Of
Posted in Current Affairs, Leave It Alone on December 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We scared each other in the laundry room, and then he ran under the door into the storage room, and we just couldn’t let him get comfy in there and invite all his friends and relatives over, but his last meal was a lovely piece of cheese with peanut butter. What can you do.
Supper
Posted in I Can't Eat This, Leave It Alone, The Inexplicable on November 12, 2010 |
The late-night, in-the-dark ribs that weren’t because the barbecue got too hot. They did make nice flaming torches though when we opened the lid.
