This big-little guy, striped like a watermelon, came to visit last week. Turns out he’s a ten-lined June beetle.
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The Summer Visitor
Posted in I Can't Eat This, Leave It Alone, Uncategorized, Wildlife on August 9, 2011 |
How to Lift and Store Tulip Bulbs
Posted in Garden, Tips, Uncategorized on June 2, 2011 |
This is the first year that I’m going to lift tulip bulbs in the yard, and I didn’t know how to do it, so it was back to the interwebs for me. Last year’s tulips: It turns out a lot of people leave their bulbs in the ground year after year, which you can do, [...]
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. [...]
Sleep with the Fishies
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2011 |
Really, you could, because several of our fish, big and small, didn’t make it through the winter for some reason (despite a pond heater this year!) and are napping in the pond. Too bad. RIP, fish.
February!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2011 |
Wow, that was a fast January that zipped by. Red didn’t notice, or noticed and doesn’t care.
Well Now
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2011 |
We’re back! Except we’re not! Yes, the house is still standing. The garden is still snowed under. The weeks are flying by and we’re almost at mid-January already. Blogging is expected to be sporadic for the next bit due to inescapable, looming deadlines. (Good thing the blog wasn’t a New Year’s Resolution. Some of us [...]
Christmas at 963: Sparklies & Santas
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2010 |
More sparklies! More Santas!
Remembrance Day
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2010 |
Lest we forget our glorious dead. Peace, and thank you.
Fall
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2010 |
At the end of this month, we’ll have been at 963 for one year. Time flies. The garden in fall – some roses blooming again just as the asters are about to join in: And our trees doing their thing:
How Do You Like Them Apples?
Posted in Current Affairs, Friends, Uncategorized on September 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our neighbors, God love ‘em, brought over a huge grocery bag of apples fresh from their tree, to follow the huge grocery bag of cherries fresh from their tree last month. So far the only thing I’ve managed to make is applesauce, but I think pie is looming on the horizon.
