Today is the bicycle tour of the lost coast, so that means our annual helicopter training, and of course the best part, the helicopter ride above Ferndale. This year I sat on the other side to the chopper, so I …
The rain finally stopped, and so the work on our front fence finally began. Since it doesn’t look like the county is going to be fixing the flooding problem any time soon, we are building a retaining wall in the …
After viewing the backyard, I was prepared for the worst in the front yard, and found it. It’s been very cold in addition to the heavy rain, so we’ve been keeping our fingers crossed for snow. So far the only …
Sometimes I think life would be much easier without indoor plumbing. The last few weekends I’ve been having to repair something or other. First it was the toilet that was leaking. Then it was the valve that stuck in our …
The gopher population in our yard seems to be out of hand. I think they are trying to create a reproduction of the Hawaiin Islands on our front lawn. Every morning we awake to find one more volcano has been …
Opportunities to mow the lawn have been scarce lately due to the rain, so yesterday after we got back home I figured I better mow it before I couldn’t get the mower through the tall grass. After I made one …
Back to our front yard. While I had Rich and his tractor here, I had him pull out the two holly bushes that were in the front. We still need to do a bunch of clean up and regrading in …
This new feature of our yard is either: A copy of San Jose’s Quezacoatl statue. The result of having visions of aliens landing near some strange mountain. Half the recipe of a female mud wresting tournament. A brand new volcano. …
Here’s what the culvert in front of our house looked like upon our return from Mexico. It appears there was one more storm that dumped even more silt in our front yard. The culvert was about two and a half …
We went more than 7 months without any real rain, and then to remind us that winter is coming we got hit with a huge storm right off the bat. High winds, several inches of rain, lighting and thunder, the …
While making the coffee this morning, Lori exclaimed that the spiders were building the Golden Gate bridge in our backyard. Not sure what she meant by that, I took a look, and sure enough, there was a silk replica of …
As I moved on with the rototiller to the next patch, I disturbed another guest in our garden. As far as I know this is some type of garter snake. When I picked it up, it left a real musky …
I’m in the process of moving some iris around and pulled up some of the black plastic I had in the back for weed control. Underneath was a large ant colony, with several large clusters of eggs. Most of the …
I came home from a firecall today to find a two point buck back by the garage. I ran inside and grabbed the 500mm lense and camera expecting to get a great picture of it. Unfortunately the batteries died just …
Enough cars for the week, I’m probably boring the women. So here’s some pretty flowers. But not any pretty flowers, this is a foxglove that came directly from Grandma’s garden, so it is special. Our garden is still on hold …
Here we have totally appropriate deer behavior, munching on the abundant supply of willow trees that line the creek. This morning both Galen and Ricky were pretty interested in keeping the deer out of our yard, and surprisingly, the deer …
Today after the monthly pancake breakfast at the Veteran’s Memorial, Lori and I changed our plans because it was t-shirt weather in Ferndale. We spent the morning and early afternoon working in the garden, and then since Williams Creek has …
This morning while on my way out to the mailbox, I noticed that the rosebed in front needed some weeding again. While doing that I noticed a number of snails and slugs hiding in the iris that are planted in …
Well it’s been awhile since I’ve updated the page, but as most of you know, I was on vacation, back in the wonderful Bay Area. So good to see all those cars again. Lori and I stayed with Carol and …
Here I am mowing the lawn again. If the garden grows anything like this lawn, we’ll have some amazing vegetables. Since it’s been raining quite a bit every few days it’s been hard to mow the lawn when it’s dry, …
Since we live on Rose Ave, it seemed only appropriate to plant roses in the front yard. We planted a combination of Cecile Bruner and Gertrude Jekyl bushes. We also planted 3 apple trees and 3 blueberry bushes.
