Friday, June 29, 2007

My truck is here!!! Yippeeee!

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Only took FOUR WEEKS from Sacramento to Long Island. And then it was at the depot in King's Park, I needed to return the rental car to J...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Waterfall!

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Here it is: the pond is only half-full so far, no plants or anything yet, but the framework is there. Here's the waterfall--it has light...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

We have a waterfall :-)

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Pictures tomorrow when it's light :-)

I should have known

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The signs were all there: a small trail through the long lawn grass (before it was cut); something using the walkway to the deck as its toil...

No more pregnant goldfish :-(

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I just went down to the pond to turn the hose on to start filling it up again, and found a scene of carnage. Something has killed the fish: ...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Weekend work

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Wanting to do too many things at once--but I'm waiting on all the contractors for the stairs, so am doing what I can elsewhere. This wee...

The pond

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This is how the pond was before we found Peter and asked him to help us. And here he is part-way through draining the pond: There were far ...

Pregnant fish?????

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I didn't know that koi got pregnant!!!! I thought they laid eggs!!!! We have one koi that has a belly like a chicken's egg!!!! (It...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Greening

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Living so close to the wetlands (close? rather, "in the wetlands"), I want to be as concious of what we're adding and taking-a...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Electrics

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Anyone see that advert where the guy is testing a light switch and the garage door is opening and closing on some poor dear's car, seve...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

What's going on with the floor? (Moving the stairs)

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We have progress on the move-the-staircase project. One of the contractors bidding on the project came back today with his boss, armed with ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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Here's a really cool bird identification website: Rightbird--the online guide to identifying the right bird in your yard. It helps you ...
Monday, June 18, 2007

Pest control...

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... and if your ant bait isn't working, and you have no bug spray in the house, then Awesome Cleaner works just as well ;-) Costs a dol...

Monday birds

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The big birds are easiest to identify: the egret, the Canada geese, the gannets and various gulls. And the brightly-coloured birds too: ther...

The creeping vine

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This vine is creeping all over the walkway to the deck. A neighbour told me he thought it was poisonous... I had thought that it was Virgini...

Sunday, a week after the boxes arrived

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We're starting to see some progress. Most of the upstairs boxes are now unpacked: the rugs unrolled and some picture on walls (they hide...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Fire Island Fire

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To be truthful, it's Smith Point, not Fire Island, that we can see from here. But over to the right, it's Fire Island. We were prepa...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Wednesday is cool :-)

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Today is cooler, with a stiff breeze. The marshes have taken on a grey cast, not bright green like they are when the sun is bright. Grebes, ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

View from my office :-)

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After the weekend

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The furniture is all here. Some of the boxes are unpacked. If I said it was half-finished, I'd be optimistic--but we are getting there. ...