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June 25, 2007
Mow Mow Mow your yard..
Yea! I got about half the backyard mowed before I hit a shepherd's hook and broke the mower...its making odd sounds now...so we bought a new one...i liked our old mower, but its taken a beating with the backyard in Austin and now this new one...neither one had 'normal' grass like yards (the front in Austin, yes, the back - no)...so when a normal mower might last for 10 years, these things have been running over bricks, rocks, weeds, concrete hidden under ground poking up just enough to cause problems...anyway, new mower, yard is mowed and life is good...our goal is to mulch the backyard and not need a mower like our front yard...i can't see putting plants in the entire backyard, but i like the idea of mulching everything in...
I didn't make any beads over the weekend, but its MOnday and time to get back to work...I made two beads w/ the 'new to me' lauscha and yet, they cracked...i obviously am doing something wrong...i've heard that you have to put the beads into the kiln while still glowing red hot and I forgot to do that...the good news is I can find colors in Moretti that are nearly identical to these lauscha colors, so I can get the same effect w/out a broken bead...its a neat glass, I just end up w/ cracked beads...and i'm too lazy to figure out what is going wrong, so I just substitute other glass and keep going...
I saw all sorts of cool spiders, grubs, grasshoppers, toads and snakes while mowing yesterday...the mockingbirds came thru and snagged the grubs and hoppers..its fun to watch them slap those bugs around...nature is cool...
So, that was my exciting weekend...i deadheaded roses, watched swallowtails deposit more eggs on my dill/fennel, there are 8 monarch caterpillars eating the milkweed, and I saw my first hummingbird fight last night...so far we've only had 1 hummer at a time visit the firecracker plant...yesterday, two were fighting over the plant...ironically, Jack Bauer (our neighbor's cat) has started sleeping under the same plant...but he never made a move for the birds...I heard them chirping, they are very quiet and sound a little like guinea pigs...go figure...
Posted by Donner at June 25, 2007 08:23 AM