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Gardening Report — March 14

16 March 2010

Last week­end the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs.
Con­tin­u­ing the theme of happy flow­er­ing shrubs and brood­ing conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) bud­dleias we’ve added more happy and more brooding.

the weep­ing cedar bed got shrubs

Start­ing with the happy, a flow­er­ing cur­rant. I’ve seen this […]

Tagged as: Chaenomeles, Chamaecyparis, cornus, currant, dogwood, juniper, juniperus, quince, ribes, taxus, thuja, whipcord, yew

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Best in Class Shoes

16 September 2009

These ruby slip­pers from Ahmet Bay­tar are all Dorothy from Wiz­ard of Oz grows up.
The orig­i­nal are in the flash gallery on his site.

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Jim Moves Up From Rock Band

25 January 2009

Last week Jim got a new gui­tar — some­thing a lit­tle more challenging…

Tagged as: guitar, jim

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Flood Update — and Gallery Test

9 January 2009

We drove to town this after­noon to get the mail (Yeah, I know no way for us to get out = no way for the mail to get in.)
I got these shots of Cherry Val­ley and the Sno­qualmie River (from a mov­ing vehi­cle…)
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Note that the lit­tle white peaks in the last pic­ture are […]

Tagged as: duvall, floods, roads

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Wooza

9 January 2009

This photo of Woodinville-Duvall Road through the Sno­qualmie val­ley was sent to Jim by Jerry one of the fel­lows in SVARC. The “un-official” ver­sion is that it will take 4 days to fix. We sur­mise that it’s dam­age to the road sur­face and not to the under­ly­ing bridge struc­ture because the traf­fic cam­era showed […]

Tagged as: duvall, flood, roads

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Is Google the Next Microsoft?

24 November 2008

I was upgrad­ing Word­Press installs this morn­ing and found this in the drafts folder of my old blog Magpie’s Shiny Things.
Is Google the Next Microsoft
Yeah, prob­a­bly, so what?
The mar­ket demands that there be an easy, no brainer, can’t pos­si­bly get in trou­ble for choos­ing solu­tion for the vast major­ity.
Tools need to be one stop shop­ping, easy […]

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Housekeeping

25 June 2008

A few months ago I moved some things — includ­ing the files for this blog — around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine — until…
I upgraded the word­press installs. All the older image links broke. Luck­ily I fig­ured out just how they broke. It’s taken a cou­ple of hours but all the […]

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DS Box">Jim’s DS Box

30 April 2008

So here’s what Jim wanted me to make him.
A box for his Nintendo.

It’s sim­i­lar to the fold­ing box. In fact it started out like the fold­ing box but then I closed up the sides so that it would be eas­ier to use the DS while it was still in the box. (Hence the drop front.) In […]

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Chicken Farming

16 April 2008

We have new chicks. 12 arrived this morn­ing.
Here’s my favorite. (A rooster with my luck!)

More info and updates on the chicken page.

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Opinion — Good Cop Have a Doughnut

14 April 2008

This week­end was garage and barn tidy time. Which inevitably results in a trip to the local trans­fer sta­tion.
Load up the flatbed trailer and hitch it up to the adven­ture truck (don’t for­get to take a dog along!) and off we go.
40 min­utes later we pull onto the scale at the trans­fer sta­tion and the cheerful […]

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