Edible Estates – Help Me Eat My Yard!

Partly being broke, partly trying to be “green”, partly trying to be self sufficient, and party being paranoid of food shortages as part of some New World Order, I have wanted to start growing food for a while now. Last summer I proved that I can at least keep hastas alive. This summer, I will test it on veggies. I was raised helping my parents tend their garden so it is nothing...

Operation Drivway – Lessons Learned

I have not written lately about my adventures in the lizard bricks. That doesn’t mean I have not been working on them. However, today I think I came to the realization that I need to start over. The key issue is that the limbs keep breaking off, even with the concrete. This is mostly due to the joints being to narrow compared to the depth of the bricks. This would be fine in application...

Learn something new all the time – Variegated and Chimeras

I was looking up growing Ivy last night and ran across the word “Variegated” in the context of describing types of Ivy. I initially assumed this was a typo of “variated” as in “colors may vary”. But, my inquisitive mind decided it was worth googling. Wow, neato. Wikipedia says: Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and...

More Housework Bits

Toni comes back in 6 days. There is a lot of stuff i want to try to get done yet before she gets back. I assume that I will be trying to soak her up for a week or two trying to make up for lost time, hehe. Anywho, during lunch today I pulled out another plaster cast and poured another. I expect to have enough casts made by the end of Thursday to be suffiently confident in the shape to call this...

Hurray for Housework …

Today was a good day for house work. After a looong weekend at the awesome Garrett Family Reunion, I was anxious to do some physical work. I kicked things off last night by going and working out at the gym for a bit. Today during lunch at work, I went out and poured another plaster cast of the lizard paver mold. Then I delimbed this little swamp elm growing in the back yard. Afterwork,...