*Crystalline* Gnawing On A Tree Trunk, But Not Really.
Today I deluded myself through two exams, then returned home and nearly had my head sonically blown off. *laugh* It's an endless irritant: my mom is going deaf and will turn appliances up past a recommended degree. For the hearing-endowed, it hurts.
When she has the house to herself, she'll drag out all sorts of storage wares, laundry, boxes, etcetera, and will divide her attention per project in fifteen minute intervals. Apparently, today was main bedroom/kitchen/basement projects--so she had both the basement and main bedroom televisions blaring, on different channels, at volume 16.
...
Martha Stewart & jewelry infomercial.
Anyway, back to the exams. I didn't procrastinate as much as intended (heh), but still, I'm full-on uneasy. Multiple-choice scantrons lull you with trick questions, seemingly obvious answers. Two hours later, I get that prickly sensation that usually means I'll be eating my textbooks for the remaining exams.
Fantastic weather, though! Wish I could have laid on a blanket in the backyard all day. Between school and work, which I'm off to in a few minutes, I took "a few" pictures.
Fresh air, ahhh...
Top deck straight view: That's a temperature clock nailed to the middle beam...our apple tree is in the right corner, on the yard slope.
Top deck left view: Pear tree downslope, somewhat in the middle. Huge baby pine-tree-thing back along the left edge of the pic.
Top deck right view: I totally annihilated our side yard and...overshot into our neighbor's backyard. :) However, their backyard is also teh awesome. The property itself has passed through 3 different owners this past year, but we knew the original elderly couple. Bill, who died two years ago, had a massive amount of fertile soil dumped, shaped it into an upright firm block, reinforced it with wood, then planted trees and a fantastic garden. Course that makes mowing there interesting. We suggested to the string of newbies that they build a small shed on the rise, buuut...Anyway, I'd set up a mystic Indian tent with lawn chairs, a slide to return to the "mainland"...*eyes neighbor's yard*
Dad recently strengthened the lower deck sides and built a bench into it.
Lower deck right wind chime arch...another view of the neighbor's yard.
The ground! Ahh! Walking barefoot on the crunchy leaves was most excellent.
Right gate arch, house side: Last time I looked, that pineish tree was 2 feet high. o.O
One of our backyard trees; I used to know its kind. Much taller than the picture, but I thought the cluster of leaves spraying outyard from the sun was pretty.
The pear tree, in front of the sun.
Pear tree, different angle, sans sun flare.
OoooOOh pear tree.
We set up another arch in the garden along the house's back wall; its grape vine is going yellow and crinkly, the berries dark.
The garden along the house's left side (again, from backyard perspective): my mice burial ground. :( R.I.P. Parker, Tea, and Fiona.
A slant angle of our deck and part of our backyard. Gorgeous! My parents built it all when we--being my parents and infant me--moved in during 1986. Before then, the deck was a rickety one-level construct; besides grass, the yard was devoid of any plant life.
Left side gate. Totally photoworthy.
The thingy on top of the gate.
Pretty white flower.
Look at its center...ewww, creepy.
Pinky shimmer leaf.
Pinky shimmer close up.
Pink scatter flowers, near burial ground.
Glinty leaves, beautiful. One side of the leaf is a metallic dark blue-purple, the other a bright lime. I need to find out what sort of plant this is.
Fern...it's kinda spongey.
Poofy orange flowers, whose name I really should know.
Close up.
Close up.
Another bunch.
Close up
Orange leafing, a small tree in the front yard.
Our big tree in the front yard.
*waves arm majestically* Baaark of the big tree in the front yard.
From front perspective, left side garden: *tear* We had herbs, ferns, bleeding hearts, and a dogwood tree there, but now we must replant.
Uh, and that's my little bro's giant purple cross/plant frame/thing.
Minnesota pictures within the...uh, okay, month. (Promises, promises.) I'm inspired by my need to go there right now...are peeps still traveling to Turkey? :D
When she has the house to herself, she'll drag out all sorts of storage wares, laundry, boxes, etcetera, and will divide her attention per project in fifteen minute intervals. Apparently, today was main bedroom/kitchen/basement projects--so she had both the basement and main bedroom televisions blaring, on different channels, at volume 16.
...
Martha Stewart & jewelry infomercial.
Anyway, back to the exams. I didn't procrastinate as much as intended (heh), but still, I'm full-on uneasy. Multiple-choice scantrons lull you with trick questions, seemingly obvious answers. Two hours later, I get that prickly sensation that usually means I'll be eating my textbooks for the remaining exams.
Fantastic weather, though! Wish I could have laid on a blanket in the backyard all day. Between school and work, which I'm off to in a few minutes, I took "a few" pictures.
Fresh air, ahhh...
Top deck straight view: That's a temperature clock nailed to the middle beam...our apple tree is in the right corner, on the yard slope.
Top deck left view: Pear tree downslope, somewhat in the middle. Huge baby pine-tree-thing back along the left edge of the pic.
Top deck right view: I totally annihilated our side yard and...overshot into our neighbor's backyard. :) However, their backyard is also teh awesome. The property itself has passed through 3 different owners this past year, but we knew the original elderly couple. Bill, who died two years ago, had a massive amount of fertile soil dumped, shaped it into an upright firm block, reinforced it with wood, then planted trees and a fantastic garden. Course that makes mowing there interesting. We suggested to the string of newbies that they build a small shed on the rise, buuut...Anyway, I'd set up a mystic Indian tent with lawn chairs, a slide to return to the "mainland"...*eyes neighbor's yard*
Dad recently strengthened the lower deck sides and built a bench into it.
Lower deck right wind chime arch...another view of the neighbor's yard.
The ground! Ahh! Walking barefoot on the crunchy leaves was most excellent.
Right gate arch, house side: Last time I looked, that pineish tree was 2 feet high. o.O
One of our backyard trees; I used to know its kind. Much taller than the picture, but I thought the cluster of leaves spraying outyard from the sun was pretty.
The pear tree, in front of the sun.
Pear tree, different angle, sans sun flare.
OoooOOh pear tree.
We set up another arch in the garden along the house's back wall; its grape vine is going yellow and crinkly, the berries dark.
The garden along the house's left side (again, from backyard perspective): my mice burial ground. :( R.I.P. Parker, Tea, and Fiona.
A slant angle of our deck and part of our backyard. Gorgeous! My parents built it all when we--being my parents and infant me--moved in during 1986. Before then, the deck was a rickety one-level construct; besides grass, the yard was devoid of any plant life.
Left side gate. Totally photoworthy.
The thingy on top of the gate.
Pretty white flower.
Look at its center...ewww, creepy.
Pinky shimmer leaf.
Pinky shimmer close up.
Pink scatter flowers, near burial ground.
Glinty leaves, beautiful. One side of the leaf is a metallic dark blue-purple, the other a bright lime. I need to find out what sort of plant this is.
Fern...it's kinda spongey.
Poofy orange flowers, whose name I really should know.
Close up.
Close up.
Another bunch.
Close up
Orange leafing, a small tree in the front yard.
Our big tree in the front yard.
*waves arm majestically* Baaark of the big tree in the front yard.
From front perspective, left side garden: *tear* We had herbs, ferns, bleeding hearts, and a dogwood tree there, but now we must replant.
Uh, and that's my little bro's giant purple cross/plant frame/thing.
Minnesota pictures within the...uh, okay, month. (Promises, promises.) I'm inspired by my need to go there right now...are peeps still traveling to Turkey? :D