Monday, July 30, 2007

Sample sunrise

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I don't need an alarm clock any more. The sun does it every morning. This is the view when I open my eyes.

More wildlife

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Butterflies love the cone flowers! And the nighttime cicadas play maracas....

Visitors!

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Louise and Rory are here from England. We are visiting the beaches, museums, cinema. Went to Manhattan for the day and Karli was tour guide....
Monday, July 23, 2007

Hawkmoon, where are you?

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Sometimes I look out of the window, across the marshes, and a dark tree takes on the shape of a castle. I think of Castle Brass appearing in...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Hole in my bucket, dear 'Liza, dear 'Liza...

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Actually it's a hole in the roof. Yuck. Bright side is that a) we found out before *real* storms in the winter and b) it happened before...

New York thunderstorm(s)

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Major thunderstorm this morning. Had to put lights on in the office because it was so dark. Then the skies opened up, Fury started barking a...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

This little bird...

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... came to visit. He flew into the office and ended up in a corner, trying to hide under the radiator. I covered him with a cloth and took ...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

How the kitchen will look

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This is an idea of how the kitchen will look once the existing kitchen has been demolished and rebuilt. It still won't be huge, but it w...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Progress--sort-of

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I have at last found someone to take away the old 'fridge and stove from the downstairs kitchen. They will disappear this afternoon. Th...

The pond on a misty morning

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Hot fog!

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Strangest weather so far yesterday. It was really, really hot and humid. Probably not as hot as it's been over in California recently, b...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

After the fourth

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Having spent three days doing hard labour in the garden, I didn't have the energy to go out in the rain to see fireworks. So I watched t...
Monday, July 02, 2007

Busy Monday

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Took the day off work. By 8 a.m., I'd given the trim in one of the downstairs rooms its first coat. I'm sure I'm doing that room...
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 ...