I’ve been mum about the death of 8Ball since writing about her abrupt demise early last month. But when she suffered that fatal frame fracture October 7, I slowly and gingerly rode her home from Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook that afternoon with a heavy heart and was pretty bummed after that. Sure, I hauled out …
After discovering yesterday morning that our garage door was one of the many hit in the neighborhood as part of Wednesday night’s tagging attack, I was successful in removing the smaller black tag with a bottle of graffiti remover we had, but the larger and infinitely more retarded silver tag wasn’t going to surrender so …
Just fine, thanks! Remember when it looked like this on August 20? And then like this on September 22? Well it’s continuing its march toward backyard domination and today it looks like this: Even better there’s a bunch of fine specimens of butternut aka “not a pumpkin” squash growing strong, including the leader of the …
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Yeah so… as you can see things are progressing quite nicely within the confines of the backyard pumpkin patch, I first (and last) reported on at its very beginning August 20. Ten of the 14 seeds planted have risen. Except… I didn’t plant pumpkins. Apparently I planted butternut squash, instead. I make that admission based …
Of our little six-pack of sunflowers grown and/or growing on the south side of the house, the western-most one bloomed the biggest and brightest (click it for the bigger picture):
The best gift I ever got Susan was an electric tiller that she wanted one Christmas several years ago. She’s not used it once, but I’ve used it on several occasions to reinvigorate various stale patches of earth in the back and side yards. Today was the latest example, with about 20 square feet of …
Well we finally have bloomage: Of the eight sunflower seeds planted in the two boxes hung off the southside stairs in June, six have grown, with the first having started its reveal yesterday (above how it looks this morning; click it for the bigger picture). Now the question is if it can avoid decapitation by …