Ants have been the bane of my existence lately. From a minor nuisance in summer, they have evolved into a year-round annoyance, and the single track of the tribe across my kitchen counter top has expanded to accommodate spur lines…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Signs of spring
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Just one week ago, amid chilly showers and dipping temperatures, spring seemed to be receding even as the calendar advanced. The early bloomers–the winter jasmine and forsythia–were still blazing along for all the world as if it were February, while…
Here be monsters
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As a kid, I loved–I mean absolutely adored–Japanese daikaiju eiga: monster movies and television shows. I, of course, arrived too late to the party of the original Godzilla, released in 1954, but I sat riveted at the spectacle of Destroy…
Spring Fever
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While Baby worked on the site plan, I’ve been working diligently on a companion planting scheme for our garden on 10-1/2 Street. See, I have this whole thing about weeding–as in hating it, especially while sweating and swatting bugs in…