Vaccine availability in Oregon is now wide open. Every website and email agrees--I am now eligible. The problem: I would have to drive to Eugene to get an appointment through Kaiser Permanente ( Read more... )

The Land Between the Trees is ready for more staging ( Read more... )

I will look for an hour during the week to get ahead on grass cutting and cleaning LBT and fill the compost container ( Read more... )

Mother Earth News says that when transplanting a Christmas tree, which describes the tree in our side yard I want to move, one should dig a hole about 1 1/2 times larger than the root mass ( Read more... )

Our foray into the outer world went fine to-day. Despite Marisa's new elastic it still was difficult to keep on. The problem is that when I move my eyebrows or smile my ears move! So I have to stay sullen to keep the thing on. As we went to only one store and it was not crowded we got home before things could get too bad ( Read more... )

Really nice weather this weekend, so yesterday I raked the park strip, mowed it (with my reel mower), cut taller grass around the Purple Catalpa and pulled some weeds there (mostly broadleaf plants and dandelions ( Read more... )

To-day I am taking the last vacation day from those alloted to me in 2018. It took me this long to spend it. It was the best time to take vacation, as everyone else had finished theirs and the new quarter had just started without our specific objectives assigned. Certainly I had things to do, like finish the assignment from last quarter, but as ( Read more... )

I only got three hours for work outside ( Read more... )

I need to sleep, then get outside moving and digging ( Read more... )

To-day I spent several hours doing a rough fill of the gap between the walkway and the driveway. I cleaned a number of bricks (and sadly, in the process, broke a few of them), tried to create a reasonable slope in the gap and then filled the bricks into the gap ( Read more... )