News in snippets:

Last weekend, chinders and I went kayaking with one of her coworkers and a large party of birthday well-wishers. It was fun, although I think I like kayaking more as a way to get somewhere, perhaps somewhere with a picnic lunch, than as just a thing to do paddling around for a while ( Read more... )

I am signed up for planting and/or weeding with Save the Bay in the Palo Alto Baylands February 19, March 5, and April 2.

It's more fun with people to talk to! I'll talk to you if you'll talk to me.

Hello, living ( Read more... )

Axial tilt: I don't like it. I want my sunlight back ( Read more... )

Anybody want to come restore some native habitat with me? I did a round of invasive-plant-pulling with Save the Bay a little while back, and it was fun but would have been more fun with someone to chat with. If that sounds like fun to you, let me know when and I will sign us up.

I am considering the following dates:

Save the Bay at San ( Read more... )

Because brooksmoses and suzimoses are off visiting relatives over the holidays, we moved Christmas up to the 21st.

( Shiny things back here )

My lime tree has decided that its first three limes are ripe, and dropped them on the floor. (It was having a hard time dealing with the cold, so it's been inside for a few weeks ( Read more... )

I have here a flyer that came in the mail today. It offers to replace my messy biological lawn with pet friendly, maintenance free FieldTurf, the world's leading synthetic turf system. The main argument seems to be that this will let me save on water bills, with some secondary arguments around tidiness and lessened effort in things like mowing ( Read more... )

The tomato plant is now taller than I am. It has lots and lots of little tomatoes, a few of which are just recently bright red. I am not sure yet how they taste -- they're red enough to be ripe, but they don't seem to have loosened from the stems at all, so they might not be quite ready yet.

Soon, though.

(This is actually a rather delayed report -- the pictures are from last weekend, so everything except the tomato plant is slightly bigger now, and the tomato plant is way freakin' hugely bigger.)

So I have plants! And a worm bin! And scary, scary vampire mint.

( And pictures of all these things! With explanatory paragraphs! And no more exclamation points! )