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Expounding

May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

OK, I was a little terse with the pictures. Allow me to elaborate.
There are a lot of kinds of bees. Many of those bee kinds are living in my yard right now. I’ve got blue and red masons (though, they seem to be about done), green metallic bees, those tiny guys (about [...]

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Tags: rant

No, I’m not dead.

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

No, I have not given up my blog.
The combination of lots of work and a couple of weeks of crappy weather, and I just didn’t have it in me to write at the end of the day for a while. And, yes, I have a real job. Surprising, I know.
Let’s catch up a [...]

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Tags: garden

Chickens, bees, and neighbors

April 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

What a day here in Portland. 70+ degrees and sunny all day.
What better time for my neighbor to break out his old-timey sprayer and start drenching his trees with noxious stuff? The trees hang over my fence? Well, then it was only right of him to tell me to get out of [...]

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Tags: chickens · garden · wildlife