Yesterday we hung art. It’s a sad state of affairs that we have too much art to hang in one day, but them’s the breaks. At least we got most of the big paintings and masks off the ground, and that’s the important bit. Feels more like we live here now. My inability to post […]
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Three days after the birdseed went up–in this case a cheap birdseed bar that I’d fastened to an old plant-hook on a tree off the deck–our local squirrels made off with the motherlode. I’d been watching the squirrels dangle upside down to yank handfuls off the bar and been amused by it, but as I […]
Oh. My. God. A woodpecker just landed outside my window, an enormous monster with herringbone feathers and a head the striking red neon of a cheap highlighter. My bird book, acquired yesterday, informs me that it is a male red-bellied woodpecker. I had just sat down to write an entry about the extraordinary variety of […]
Well, we made it. Okay, we made it a few days ago, but this is the first time I’ve gotten around to updating, since I am writing on a–god help us all–dial-up connection. It is a measure of my geekhood that my brain keeps replaying that scene from Star Trek, where Spock complains that working […]