Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Sixty Minutes In The Life Of Death
There is something about rampaging unstoppable wildfires and the literal and figurative pall they cast that both agitates and depresses me to marked degrees. It’s like such disasters create an internal tug-of-war wherein I want to got to irrational extremes — on one end I want to seek out destroy anyone even remotely resembling a [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in environment, news by Will
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Katydidn’t
Not sure how it got there, but this morning I found a katydid in the kitchen, on the inside of the window next to the breakfast nook. After catching it up in a mason jar I took it outside where it crawled out onto the leaves of our Carolina cherry tree and then allowed me [...]
No Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Pepper Glars The Ball
Don’t ask me: I don’t know why I came to call this behavior of Pepper’s “glarring” it just fits. And yes, I do know that pepper has the littlest head on the biggest body.
3 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Sunset From Sunset
As snapped from the junction of Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards in Silver Lake Thursday evening (click for the bigger picture):
No Comments » - Posted in slice of life by Will
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Shattered
I can’t tell you whether the charbroiling burger smells that emanate from Carl’s Jrs are unique in their aroma, but I can tell you that when I biked by the one on the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue yesterday morning and got a good whiff in passing, I boarded the sense-memory express on [...]
No Comments » - Posted in flashback, recollections, too much information by Will
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
A Fine Piece Of Glass
That the Coca-Cola bottle I unearthed Sunday had been buried about a foot beneath the surface of the frontyard for a minimum of a decade was a given, since that’s when Susan bought the house and nothing’s been dug up or buried there since then.
But of course I wanted more specifics as to how old [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Another Find
I’ve gotten so used to seeing the black carpenter bees that buzz around the house (one’s even dug a home out of an old log in the northside garden) that when Ranger pointed out this poor dead magnificent monster (at 25mm it’s practically three times a typical honeybee) on the patio this morning, I had [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
A Coke & A Smile
In addition to the broken window, another project I’ve long been meaning to do is widen the narrow section of slopeing walkway at the top of the steps. Seriously there’s only been a couple feet of width between the planter box and the lantana hedge bordered by some river rocks where the concrete meets the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in backyarchaeology by Will
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Meeeeee
Way back a couple or so months ago during the ongoing remodeling project, Ranger got a little defensive against one of the electricians working outside and lunged against the lower pane in the corner window of the library and it cracked.
Ranger was uninjured, thankfully. But since then the window’s been left in its broken state. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in home economics by Will
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Playing The Name Game
That’s my new Mercier frame above, which arrived Tuesday evening as the replacement for my old Mercier frame that I’d retired a few weeks ago after it started making some strange creaking noises and exhibiting telltale signs of fatigue. Ten-thousand miles of hauling my surlyburly self around the mean streets of Los Angeles will do [...]
