the saga continues. After laying out the borders of the new bed last weekend, we started putting in the brick edging today. We have most of it in, but we will need to get a few more bricks.
Strangely, as I was starting to turn some of the soil, I found a cinderblock burried in the hill. I have no idea what it is from. Weird.
I have posted some pictures of the early work on the Our Garden page of my website. More to come
This is an image a friend of mine sent me. Look carefully.
So it is time again for our fall plantings (actually again is too strong a statement. This is our first fall planting. We had a spring planting this year.)
Read on for the beginning of the fall planting saga. The front lawn is my enemy. Grass will not grow on the low hill in the front lawn. I have tried since we bought the house to no avail. Not that I really like lawn, but I hate plain dirt. But the dirt won; this time.
I’m bringing in the big guns now. FLOWERS! ha ha ha!
Elizabeth laid out a flower bed that is pleasantly curved and encomposes a large portion of the “dead zone.” We have been planning this area for quite a while and settled on a wonderful package that White Flower Farm offers called Daffodils & Daylilies, a Collaboration of Color. It is made up of 100 Daffodil bulbs and 50 Daylilies. Given the size of the bed, we needed two of them. Wow, that will be lots of planting.
We also have a lattice wall that I built in the back yard that surrounds the two air conditioning units outside. We wanted to get a flowering vine to grow up it that would attract butterflies. After researching the subject, we settled on Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis paniculata).
So I placed the order today and the flowers should be shipping within the next month (they start shipping items in Spetember starting with the coldest climates and working south).
I will make status reports as things progress.
It has been mentioned to me that when working as root, you do not actually make more mistakes, it is just that when you do make a mistake, it has larger consequences.
As a note to other sysadmins, changing the permissions on the /etc directory to 644 is a bad thing.
Just performing my social duty by warning others.
::sigh::
the Belief-o-matic
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This really does say it so well.
(An entry so people don’t think I’m dead.) Last week I watched the Apple keynote from Seybold. It wasn’t a Steve-note, but Phil is pretty good at giving a show. He didn’t show anything new, but he spent a time covering a significant number of the publishing features present in OS X. One of the biggest issues I think Apple has in “selling” OS X is that it is hard to talk about all of the interesting new features.
Phil spent considerable time talking about fonts. Given my graphic artist lustings, I like fonts. And Apple has shipped lots of really nice ones as part of OS X. So I spent part of this weekend playing with them and modifying my website to prefer those fonts. Unfortunately those of you without OS X will not be able to see them, but I know the OS X people will have fun.
I made some minor tweaks to the layout of my main journal page. I’m not sure I am completely happy with the changes, but I will keep tweaking them.
There is also a new section that I am just starting on my main site to provide support for users of my server. It is small now, but will grow as I write more. Shoot me an email if you have any suggestions.
P.S. Do you think I put enough links in this entry? I’m not sure.
Warning: do not attempt to eat or drink anything while reading this article.
An excerpt:
After Cordelia came out, I went over to where they were cleaning off the gook to get a good look and touch her gently. The nurse said, “Say something to her.”
Being about 8 seconds into my first experience with newborns, I said the first thing which came into my mind: “Hello, Cordelia. Welcome to the world. It’s not going to get much better.”
Somebody in the media not afraid to say “enough already!”
She’ll probably loose her job.