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Ittiest Bittiest Lizard Ever
I was sitting on the front steps drinking iced tea and reading “Fire Study” (and a big thanks to the people who recommended the trilogy! Have devoured it completely.) and I happened to glance over at my tea and saw the teeniest little blue-tailed lizard darting away to one of the flowerpots.
He was maybe two inches long, much of it tail, and given ( Read more... ) -
Mystery Burrow
So for the last few days, I’ve noticed that there’s been a hole in one of the flowerbeds on the side of the house.
Well, “hole” is probably a misnomer. It’s a burrow, plain and simple. Something’s tunneled through the mulch, into the clay, and excavated down. The foundation of the garage will stop them after a foot or two on the backside, and it’s ( Read more... ) -
Alive! But wilted!
Five days away from home with weather skirting the hundreds, and I wasn’t surprised to return and find a great deal of wilting going on in the garden. The big established beds are completely fine, and would likely keep on keepin’ on for a couple more weeks without any supplemental watering, but the plants from this spring, which haven’t established ( Read more... ) -
June, June, June!
The garden is glorious, so of course I am going out of town for a week at the height of its glory. On the one hand, I am sorry to miss it, on the other hand, I can pretend that was the one week when it all came together and looked totally magnificent, and I just happened to come back when the wild quinine has fallen down on the verbena and the ( Read more... ) -
Slice of Life: Mulch Rationalization Division
I plodded upstairs this morning to where Kevin was taking a shower and said gloomily “So it finally happened.”
KEVIN: Oh dear…
URSULA: I need more mulch.
KEVIN: …how much are we getting delivered?
URSULA: No! Just five or six bags. Maybe eight. Not a delivery. No.
KEVIN: Uh-huh.
URSULA: Really.
KEVIN: And how many cubic yards will you need ( Read more... )
