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Thursday, November 12, 2009

2+ days of rain

Getting pretty tired of the rain here. Not sure how much we have got but the pond has came up a foot! The canoe was well out of the water and now it is in the water. The pond was pretty low. The only time is 12 years here in paradise the pond overflowed its banks was during what was left of Hurricane Bob.

Good news is we have had no real damage here. One of Meg's wind chimes was destroyed by the wind and being fairly old to start with. The satellite TV has been out of service more than it has been in service. Meg thinks the old wasp nest covering up part of the satelite reciever might have something to do with it. I thought TV was supposed to get better in the digital age?

Things I have to do?
Put in the new light fixture in the dining room. Done
New van tires put on. Done
Plant 3 Camellias. Not today!
Plant a zillion spring bulbs. Not today
Install these two 12 foot bow shaped 4 x 6s that I got for half price for a new curved garden bed. Not today
Start digging footers for a gazebo next to a pond over the feeder creek. NOT TODAY.
Start a big deck and porch job in Chapel Hill. Not today.
Take out 6 yogurt tubs of compost. Someone get my jacket and waders.
Make Bran scones with golden raisins. OK there we go I have something to do.
Meg wants me to clean the house! We have 2 dogs and 2 cats, I clean it they make it a mess everytime they go outside and come back in. It is so bad out there I have to walk the dogs to get them to venture out enough to go the the bathroom.

Our Christmas cactus have started to bloom

Forgot to mention on Sunday I found two huge Chinese Praying Mantises on out house and deck, both females and not 6 foot apart. I have much better photo of mantises, note the long shadows, never seen them this late in the year.


I have been productive on another front. My other blog The Liberal Handyman which have been invisible for sometime is now brand new on Worldpress. Been tinkering with the features and learning Worldpress. See http://liberalhandyman.wordpress.com/