Things I learned today 20120124

You don’t have to draw things at original size when you have a scanner. When I think of time I would have saved if I drew them large and scaled it down in Photoshop. I have the program. I know how to do it. Doh!

Delorean

Saw this in the parking lot where I had lunch with Mom this weekend. Gotta love it.

Spudguards

Planted some seeds in the planter today. I haven’t done that in the last couple of years because Spud:

is a lawnmower. He cuts down everything in his path.

But I devised a ‘Spudguard.’

I cut the bottom off of some plastic vegetable trays, loosened the soil, planted the seeds, put the Spudguard in place and used chopsticks to hold them in place. We’ll see how they hold up. I used crunched leaves to mulch them to keep them from drying out between waterings.

I planted some mini peppers:

I was amused to see that some of them were dyed red. I suppose that is a simple way to tell what color the peppers on the parent plant were.

Vampire Gardener

Lately I haven’t gone outside before 4:30. It’s almost dusk by then. I feel like a vampire gardener; wandering around the yard trimming the shrubbery with moths flying around.

I have to clear a five foot section of the planter to get at a sprinkler that needs to be converted to drip and to remove a bramble that I let grow hoping for berries. BIG mistake. If you don’t know what it is, pull it up or it will try to colonize. And that bramble has wicked thorns.

It’s peaceful out there at dusk. Most of the kids have gone in and even the birds are quiet.

I’ve been trying to clean up the vines on the wall. I kind of hate to do it; they provide hiding places for the lizards. I try to leave the dead leaves some spots. Got to leave them some cover if I want them to stay.

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

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