The wall guys, who also scooped out a dry creek on the drainage challenged side of the house, are finished with their work. Now it’s my turn. First, I have to redo the retarded buried downspout drains that are perpetually clogged with crap. I want to unbury them, cut them off and dump the runoff […]

I got this item courtesy of a student from my anime course, Kim Justice. To celebrate Hello Kitty’s 30th anniversary, Sanrio had a crop circle made of her near Stonehenge (Kitty was born in England, you know). Read the details here.

Safa and I had great plans for today: first, Earth Day activities at Centennial Park and then School Night at the Sounds ballgame. Well, Mother Nature did not cooperate. We did get to see hula dances and Hawaiian music before it started to rain and we took cover under the eaves of the Parthenon, where […]

Yesterday a good-sized frog hopped into my pond and posed for me. I took close-ups from several angles, but this one was the best. He (all frogs look like male to me, just like all dogs are male and all cats are female) looked pissed off no matter what angle. I tried to make him […]

Remember those happy fishies I wrote about three weeks ago? Well, I can report that there are indeed male and female fish in the pond and that at least one of each are fully functioning because there are now dozens of small fry swimming around. At first I thought they might be mosquito larvae, but […]

Today I had Cross Cut Tree Service take out three pain-in-the-butt trees. One was obstructing finishing touches on the wall; the other two are too close to the log portion of the house, with the big one half dead and infested with bugs. Here is before, during, and after on the latter two:

These guys rocked. […]

Spur of the moment, Safa and I went to the Nashville Sounds game Thursday night. The weather was great and I wanted a BBQ sandwich. IMHO, the best pulled pork BBQ in Nashville is sold there. Safa opted for a hot dog. Greer Stadium, built in the mid-1970s, is one of the oldest left in […]

The sky was blue, sun peeking through the clouds, and so I started digging a hole in the front garden for the 1960-pound boulder I bought today. And then it suddenly turned dark and poured. Drops were hitting the pond so hard it looked as if Godzilla was churning up the surface from beneath. And […]