And so it's already Sunday

( A full day of dancing )

Danny and I are going to head for the Gay Bowling group's open house tonight at Holiday Bowl. I was an avid bowler between age 10 and 23 or so, but I've only gone bowling maybe 10 times since then. The GB league apparently starts next week. We may give it a go!

( Dick Siebenforcher )

And so it's already Sunday

( A full day of dancing )

Danny and I are going to head for the Gay Bowling group's open house tonight at Holiday Bowl. I was an avid bowler between age 10 and 23 or so, but I've only gone bowling maybe 10 times since then. The GB league apparently starts next week. We may give it a go!

( Dick Siebenforcher )

The Spring Tease is here

Spent about 2 1/2 hours doing yard work (in the debris pile mostly). Raking up some of last year's locust leaves, I found thousands of one-day-old weeds starting to spring up.

THAT'S why it's called Spring!

It's 56 right now, the warmest it's been since early last December. I'm lovin' it!

Except for the shadiest spots, the last of last week's 2 inches of snow seems to be melting away.

The Spring Tease is here

Spent about 2 1/2 hours doing yard work (in the debris pile mostly). Raking up some of last year's locust leaves, I found thousands of one-day-old weeds starting to spring up.

THAT'S why it's called Spring!

It's 56 right now, the warmest it's been since early last December. I'm lovin' it!

Except for the shadiest spots, the last of last week's 2 inches of snow seems to be melting away.

Remnants of winter

Looking southeast from our deck into our neighbor Pat's (zero-scaped) backyard. Notable features on 2/10: Feral cat stalking, snow in shade from 2/4 storm. I've never understood Pat's backyard. There's that fence separating even more of the yard to the rear, terraced. Maybe her parents had a vegetable garden there 30 or 40 years ago.



Looking at the rear of our garage at what's still left of the never-ending debris pile. Noteable features: lots of branches to dispose of, mostly covering the remains of the renovation tearouts and about 80 feet of conduit from the aborted attempt to wire the lower terrace for a hot tub. One stripped-out mattress with only the wire remaining, and under that a pile of stucco debris from the garage wall complete with chicken wire. Hugely heavy. And yes, that's the REAR of the garage...we installed 16' doors on both the front and back. A unique feature, since the rear yard is so large...some future owner can park their spare cars and boats in the back yard.

Oh, and the debris pile is about 50% as large as it was a day ago. And there's more to the left, out of the camera shot. Yeek.




A similar view from 2000 (pre-Danny!) when I had just removed another debris pile from the north fence, planted the Hall's Honeysuckle, and added bark mulch. Notable differences: The garage was a carport in 2000, with a chain link fence behind it. The truck belonged to James Torres, a roommate at the time. I've since corrected the patterned plastic striping on the fence, but it's all covered with honeysuckle now, anyway.

Remnants of winter

Looking southeast from our deck into our neighbor Pat's (zero-scaped) backyard. Notable features on 2/10: Feral cat stalking, snow in shade from 2/4 storm. I've never understood Pat's backyard. There's that fence separating even more of the yard to the rear, terraced. Maybe her parents had a vegetable garden there 30 or 40 years ago.



Looking at the rear of our garage at what's still left of the never-ending debris pile. Noteable features: lots of branches to dispose of, mostly covering the remains of the renovation tearouts and about 80 feet of conduit from the aborted attempt to wire the lower terrace for a hot tub. One stripped-out mattress with only the wire remaining, and under that a pile of stucco debris from the garage wall complete with chicken wire. Hugely heavy. And yes, that's the REAR of the garage...we installed 16' doors on both the front and back. A unique feature, since the rear yard is so large...some future owner can park their spare cars and boats in the back yard.

Oh, and the debris pile is about 50% as large as it was a day ago. And there's more to the left, out of the camera shot. Yeek.




A similar view from 2000 (pre-Danny!) when I had just removed another debris pile from the north fence, planted the Hall's Honeysuckle, and added bark mulch. Notable differences: The garage was a carport in 2000, with a chain link fence behind it. The truck belonged to James Torres, a roommate at the time. I've since corrected the patterned plastic striping on the fence, but it's all covered with honeysuckle now, anyway.