Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Shroom To Grow
Susan noticed it sometime over the weekend, but I discovered the fungus among us in my morning spritzing of the side yard this morning. Having popped up between a couple walkway bricks it’s almost half the size of one… sucker’s huge (click to quadrify):
No Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
First Look: Upstairs
With our tenant Joe’s unexpected and sudden demise almost two weeks ago and the subsequent cleaning out of his belongings being completed by his brother yesterday I finally got a chance to get up there and take a good look around.
Susan I had initially planned on cleaning it up and renting it out for at [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in adventure, home economics by Will
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Finding The Bright Side
It’s disgusting that I went into the office yesterday at 2 p.m. to get caught up on work I’d been putting off until the last minute, and didn’t emerge to come home until 6:35 a.m. this morning. That’s right: 16.5 hours. No sleep, unless you count the 45 minute pass-out on the floor of my [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in jobs by Will
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Cactus Pad Update
Back in early April I turned my backyard spotlight on the bud that had sprouted from a one of three dismembered cactus pads that I’d found last summer and thunked into some soil.
Immediately after that first post there was some drama I never reported about. See, I moved the pot atop a fence post so [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I’m Too Old For Such Things
If straight-up, no-frills urban cycling is a drug, then I’d liken it to marijuana, not only because a large segment of so-called “society” wants to keep it stigmatized and its purveyors negatively stereotyped, but also because of late radical anarchistic bike rides have begun to take place because apparently the high one gets just from [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Friday, May 9th, 2008
No, Really… Just Put That Anywhere
So progress continues with our deceased tenant’s next of kin clearing his property out of the upstairs apartment. I came home tonight to find what very well may be the dearly departed’s death bed discarded with a flagrant lack of regard or responsibility in front of the house (along with two not-pictured huge plastic bags [...]
No Comments » - Posted in disgraceful by Will
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Murder Off The 101
As the crow flies the dead body was found a half-mile from my front door. As the bike rides it’s about two-thirds of a mile away. Far enough away for some, but too close for comfort for me.
I pedaled upon the cordoned-off scene above on my ride home from work last night. It was about [...]
No Comments » - Posted in crime, neighborhood, news by Will
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Has It Been A Year Already?
Seems like only yesterday my Susan and I were wandering in wonderment the walks and waterways of Venice.
3 Comments » - Posted in flashback, travel by Will
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Morning Snap: A ‘Pilar Of The Community
It wasn’t more than a few days ago that Susan spied our first teeny tiny tomato on the vines she’s been nurturing since March and there was much rejoicing.
Then today Susan found the first born ‘mater had an unwelcome guest that had moved in (click to triplify):
Drats, but such is life in the backyard. I [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, food, morning snap, nature by Will
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Caw-Caphony
Did I see what I think I saw earlier today?
I know that a small squadron of crows set to making quite a racket directly overhead in the backyard this afternoon. When Susan and I came out of the house to investigate I counted five of them circling our smaller palm tree and immediately I figured [...]
