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Bird Nerd

Posted in Building, Gardening, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , on April 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Since I still have a day job, I’m not quite ready for my Big Year – the quintessential bird watcher’s epic journey so memorably depicted in the mediocre yet entertaining Steve Martin movie of the same name. But perhaps because I have a day job, on weekends I have found myself becoming endlessly fascinated with birds. [...]

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Of Birdhouses and Barn Swallows, or, HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert

Posted in Gardening, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , on July 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I started a new job in mid-April and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it but it kicks my butt in the time-for-projects department so here we are, mid-summer, July 4th in fact (happy birthday USA!) and I haven’t done much for the last few months except work, which is not what this blog is about. But [...]

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Making Mudpies

Posted in Before & After, Gardening, tagged , , , , on March 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Most of the landscaping has to wait for warmer, drier weather, but we’ve had a couple of nice days and a few more that weren’t TOO wet, so I’ve been nibbling around the edges of the yard. First off, I trellised the underside of the deck. The deck is pretty high above the yard, and [...]

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One man’s trash

Posted in Gardening, tagged , , on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  A few years back our friends Chris and Todd bought a place on top of a mountain in Forestville, about a half hour’s drive from the Schoolhouse. It’s a sunny location, hot and dry in summer and often clear even in winter. For some inexplicable reason, the previous owners’ landscaping included a variety of [...]

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Adventures in plant propagation, #1

Posted in Gardening, tagged , , on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We’re not out of money yet but we know we will be. At the same time, we’ll need a lot of plants to make the property look halfway decent. I’ve been turning something over in my mind for a while and today I acted on it: plant propagation. We’ve spent a lot of money on [...]

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