Sorry, couldn’t resist the headline. I love digging around the backyard to see what artifacts might emerge. As you can see from my photoset on Flickr, we’ve amassed a rather interesting Gallery of Backyarchaelogy, and this thumbnail-sized ceramic noggin found atop the dirt near the hammock is the latest addition to be exhumed… by Ranger’s …
I had just finished doing the dishes yesterday when I found a leggy little insect about an inch long crawling along the sink. My guess was that it hitched a ride on me when I was doing yardwork earlier that morning so I tried to coax it onto a piece of paper to return it …
Watering the plants in the side yard, I tried to dislodge what I thought to be an abandoned cobweb spun between the hose and the house by spritzing it only to discover it was most certainly still occupied by a wet western widow who barged out of her hiding place to see what the hell …
My friend Julia inquired recently about how our Russian tortoise Buster might be doing in her new digs: I’m way happy to report she has really taken well to her new 25-square foot outdoor residence. It’s a far far more improved thing than the aquariums she’s lived in since 2001 when my mom found her …
Upon finally being able to review the vid this morning, I found that the computer’s crash didn’t come at midnight. Instead it kept on storing images in sequence every 15 seconds until shortly before 4 a.m. Fortunately the 300mb file was condensable too a far more YouTube friendly 38 megs. Enjoy:
Saturday morning I found one of the neighboring yard’s cactus flowers pretty well inundated with bees, and posted about it here with video links on L.A. Metblogs. Sure enough by Saturday night all but one of the remaining cactus blooms opened up, none of which were ideally situated to capture the nocturnal blossoms in all …