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Tornados and the Upcoming Hurricane Season...
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on Monday May 20th, 2013 at 12:13 AM
Watching the news now... It looks like OK, IA, and KS are taking a beating from an outbreak of twisters... Hope they're prepared. (If I lived in that area, I'd make sure I'd have quick access to an underground bomb shelter, even if I had to dig it with a spoon.)Thoughts and prayers go out to them...
For those us in the North East, things aren't looking great for the summer... Here's a prediction from WeatherBell...
I've babbled on way too much about disaster preparedness, but once again,...
Yet Another Home Project... Rotting Trim...
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on Sunday May 19th, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Well, as if the garage door wasn't bad enough... That's fixed, but as the saying goes, "No good deed ever goes unpunished..." Enter rot on the trim by the garage door...Thankfully, I'm ready... I have plenty of implements of destruction like the Sears Oscillating Multi-Tool (above), and a large supply of stock, so this shouldn't be so bad (famous last words...) The plan is as follows:
Remove the thin, worn fibrous seal between the trim and the garage door itself... Use the multi to cut away...A Drier Backyard?
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on Monday May 13th, 2013 at 09:25 PM
I don't know how it came to pass, but the other day folks from the town showed up to finally address the drain on the road beside our house.The pics below pretty much tell the tale...Before:
After:
When I say "address the drain on the road beside our house", I actually mislead -- back in the day the town placed it on our property, which isn't necessarily a bad thing -- 'tis the cost of being a good citizen. But what was a pain was that it didn't drain properly which caused the rain to pile up...
2 AM Post Hole and Post Holes How To...
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on Wednesday May 8th, 2013 at 06:49 AM
Howdy,
Thought I'd take a look at two related concepts relative to the title about post holes: one in the philosophical (oh God!) and one the mechanical (Whew!) Here we go...
So anyways, sometime around 2 AM last night, I decided that our broken squirrel feeder post had to be replaced... This should come as no surprise to those who know me -- I'm a night owl/insomniac who appreciates the stillness of the night. So with the proper prep work done (more on that in a bit), I turned on the...
New Yard
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on Monday May 6th, 2013 at 03:03 PM
Well,Here we go...
Last summer, the wife won a contest for a full season of lawn maintenance... Fair enough... The yard was less-than-ghastly, but so be it...
Still, the soil was terribly depleted, and it was just a matter of time until we had our own little Dust Bowl... So something had to be done... Given the free season's service, we figured it was a was if we simply put in a new lawn, and that's what we did... Here are a few pics of the beginning of a work in process...
(Note the feeder in...
Ghost Hummingbird and Very Real Snapping Turtle
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on Sunday May 5th, 2013 at 04:58 AM
Alright, don't give me any guff... I swear there was a hummingbird at the feeder just a few moments before I took the shot. (Stupid birds...) Have you noticed that missing nice shots seems to be my forte? And I'm not saying that the ones I do get are any great shakes either, because they're not. But dang, when I think of all the cool stuff I've seen in this world, my lack of photographs is stunning. Long ago, I vowed to carry a camera on my person as religiously as I carry my knife and micro...
What Cost a Smile?
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on Wednesday May 1st, 2013 at 06:21 AM
Hi,Just a couple days ago, the wife called out, "It looks like we've got another chickadee checking out the birdhouse." And I smiled a sort of unthinking smile -- one of those deeply rewarding but hardly noticeable smiles.
The reason that smile slowly clawed its way up to my consciousness was simple: our scrap birdhouse cost a couple of evenings and little more. (I was going to throw the wood out anyway.) A couple of bucks might buy you a single designer cup of coffee, and how many soft...
MUST Watch video!
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on Monday April 29th, 2013 at 08:31 AM
Hi,A real quick post -- take it to heart...
Don't walk... Run to get this video... http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/ruby-throat-hummingbird/
(Note the photo credit above!!!)
I sincerely doubt there's a person alive who wouldn't marvel at this one...
By the feeders,
CapeCodAlanP.S. Stay tuned for a major landscaping makeover!!!!
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