July 2008

Who Dug This Hole?

July 31, 2008
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We’re getting ready to plant native grass seed in the side yard next to our patio. Pete dug up the last of the crabgrass and weeds last weekend and three cubic yards of leaf compost are being delivered on Saturday. Over the past couple of days, we’ve noticed several holes in this area which have [...]

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Swallowtail

July 28, 2008
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I saw this beauty enjoying the Joe-Pye Weed over the weekend. According to Wikipedia, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail adult males are yellow, with four black “tiger stripes” on each fore wing. The trailing edges of the fore and hind wings are black which is broken with yellow spots. On the medial margin of the hind [...]

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Clinkers

July 25, 2008
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Earlier this week I showed off our outdoor water feature, the Giant Bubbling Urn. You may have noticed the decorative “stones” in the bowl at the top of the urn and, since the colors match the urn so well, thought that the stones came with the urn. This was actually Pete’s brilliant idea. These are [...]

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Water Feature

July 22, 2008
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A couple weeks ago we went to the local garden center to spend our “Lurvey Loot”. For every $10 spent at Lurvey’s Garden Center between April and June, you receive $1 in “Lurvey Loot”, which can be used for up to 50% off your purchase between July and September. We had $116 in Lurvey Loot [...]

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Look What We Did: Patio and Yard

July 21, 2008
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As part of the Houseblogs.net “Look What I Did” Sweepstakes, it’s a perfect time to show the Before-and-After of our flagstone patio and the progress we’ve made on our yard to date. (I’m also happy for the chance to win some cold hard cash/plastic from our sponsor, True Value!) When we moved into our bungalow, [...]

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Now That’s Some Garbage You Can Live With!

July 15, 2008
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Remember Phil Hartman from Saturday Night Live as The Anal Retentive Chef? He would show some perfectly chopped red bell peppers and proceed to throw out one that was chopped just a little too big, one that was a little wrinkly, etc. until he finds fault with all of it and has to start over. [...]

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Life Lessons from Harold and Maude

July 12, 2008

We rented Harold and Maude the other night. It ranks up there as one of my all-time favorite movies. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it — it’s a lot — but it has been a number of years since I last saw it. Not only is Ruth Gordon just fabulous (Bud Cort [...]

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Building the WC

July 11, 2008
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Earlier this week I mentioned that we finally started building our WC — not a Water Closet, as a flush toilet was originally called (and what bathrooms are still called today in German), but a Waste Corral to house our garbage, recycling and compost bins. Still housing waste, but a much less icky kind. We [...]

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Box of Rain*

July 10, 2008
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Earlier this spring we decided to try CSA: Community Supported Agriculture. We’re now in our fourth week of Veggie Nirvana. Every Wednesday we receive 3/4 bushel of organic produce from the farm we support. As a shareholder we received a cookbook, The Real Dirt on Vegetables by the farmer/owner of Angelic Organics, John Peterson. Besides [...]

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Bloomin’ Good

July 9, 2008
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Currently in bloom at Bungalow Chronicles — each one native to all or most of the lower 48 states and Canada: Kalm’s St. John’s Wort (Hypericum kalmianum) Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) Prairie (or Tall) Cinquefoil (Potentilla arguta); also native to Alaska

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