Overheard at Casa Free-Ride:
Dr. Free-Ride’s better half: Hey, some of the silkmoths are mating already!
Elder offspring: With each other?
Savor that moment of stunned silence!
Category Archives: Personal
Garden update: the harvest.
Owing to the fact that the snail eradication project (or at least, my direct involvement in it) is on a brief hiatus while I’m on the East Coast (and while my yard is still in Northern California), I’m going to be bringing you up to date on the garden in whose service I have been trying to control the gastropod population.
Long time readers may recall that the raised garden beds are almost a year old. We actually didn’t get the first seeds planted in them until near the end of July, 2008.
Some of the seeds we planted then are just now giving us plants that are ready to harvest.
Boston dispatch #2.
The torrential rain stopped (at least temporarily), so I got a chance to walk around a little. Having met my high school friend in Kenmore Square, I walked on Comm Ave (toward the Boston Commons) and hung a left on Mass Ave.
I decided I needed to check the functioning of the Harvard Bridge.
Initial dispatch from Boston.
Some hold that Hell is other people.
Today, I’m inclined to disagree.
Wifi in the Boston area?
I have a quick question for the hive-mind:
Where are good places with free wifi in Boston, Cambridge, and Wellesley?
Snail eradication (day 34).
Dry and overcast again this morning. I’ve never been a big fan of humidity, but I was really hoping for some today.
Snail eradication (day 33).
Well, it was another dry morning in the back yard. And I was sufficiently busy with other stuff yesterday afternoon that I did not have a chance to set up any beery gastropod watering holes.
Snail eradication (day 32).
The pattern of dry, overcast mornings continues.
Not very satisfying weather for a gastropod hunter.
Snail eradication (day 31).
Yet another dry, overcast morning. Not the kind of weather when one feels like sliding on one’s foot across scratchy leaves or stems.
At least if one is a snail or slug.
Snail eradication (day 30).
Despite the threatening skies yesterday morning, it did not rain. And, it was pretty dry this morning.
Accordingly, the gastropods seemed to have better things to do than sliding along the dry surfaces of my plants, meal or no meal.