Letters to you

A picture of me and my little red wheelbarrow working on one of the sheet mulched beds.

Rialian took this picture about 3 weeks ago. That bed was the first one we sheet mulched so we could plant some potatos. We planted rows of corn to the left of the Potato Peninsula (TM) (the picture shows bare ground in that area - it's been weeded and there are now tiny corn plants coming up).

Three weeks later (now) we've sheet mulched keyhole beds that occupy about a third of the garden area, and we put diverse plants in each of the beds. Today we planted lavender, sorrel, basil, two tobacco plants, lemon verbena, a walking onion, more marigolds, and something called "Scram Plant" which is supposed to repel rabbits (in case they get past the electric fence and the mesh fence). We'll see if that works.

The asparagus is putting out tiny flowers and seems to be doing very well. The vegetables look like maybe they don't like the sheet mulching. Herbs seem to love sheet mulching and are thriving and taking over the place, but the vegetables seem to like bare ground. Weird.

The e-fence is now live. Or at least the top five rows of wire are live. The bottom three aren't. If any grass touches the wires, it will ground out - so those wires are not connected at the moment until we can weed-whack the greenery under the bottom wire. Thus, rabbits can still get in. We will put landscaping fabric under the bottom wire to keep anything from growing there. The lowest wire is maybe two inches from the ground.

I actually tried to clip the grass manually, which was probably a mistake - I'm sure there were ticks in the grass, not to mention poison ivy. I'm already feeling rather itchy -- I'm sure I caught plenty of poison ivy, and these plants don't know me very well yet. My rockville poison ivy patch is nice to me, but the poison ivy out here acts sort of like the bees...

A few years back, I was at a holiday get-together at rialian's parents house. I think it was Easter. At any rate, it wasn't Christmas, because this year was my first Christmas with them. That day during dinner, I happened to notice an odd ornament situated on top of a large china closet across from me. The ornament looked like a horse. Never mind that the "horse" had antlers, and there were shiny christmas balls attatched to said antlers - I was not associating this ornament with Christmas, since it was months away, and I was actually thinking about something else when I saw it. That was when I absently remarked to the room at large, "That horse looks like its brain exploded."

Well, Rialian's mom doesn't forget such a grand opportunity for endless mockery. So when I opened up one of my Chirstmas gifts today, I was surely not surprised to see...what I saw.

Of course, it was Rialian and Stove Top who pointed out the fact that it appeared to be "anatomically correct" (we don't know if Rialian's mom noticed this or not, but we suspect maybe she did...)


( The Drag Stags have nothing on him )

sunfell says it best.

Nothing to add...

"Dear Helen :
We are pleased to confirm that the service you requested on your POWER SHOT A10 has been completed and your equipment has been shipped to you on 16-JAN-07 .. The tracking number for your package is...
Best Regards, Canon Factory Service Center"

My baby. After two years of being out of commission, my baby is repaired and is coming home.

Yes, I know it would have cost only a little more to get a new one. But.. My baby.

There will soon be pics on this LJ once more...

We got us a bona fide red-haired, changecolor-eyed elf in the family:

( Those Ears... )

A gift from fendahleen:
( boodle )

I just found the cafepress bumper sticker store, a very frightening place... http://www.cafepress.com/ibs1/301649

These were my favorites... Now to pick the one that will be the Third Bumper Sticker on poor Lyra...

Decisions...

Update: I deleted my bumpersticker directory by mistake. Wah. Anyway, I decided on "If all else fails, stop using all else"...

Update: I found the bumpersticker directory! Yay!

Just got done with new background and colors on journal... Some more images from the same place where I got the background image of the Aurora Australis: http://homepage.mac.com/stevoss/Aurora/PhotoAlbum48.html

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