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As it turned out, I couldn’t.
The tooth fairy will be fluttering into the Patch tonight , let me back up a little.
She came home, sticking her tongue behind her front tooth, forcing it forward to a particularly unnatural angle (which looked completely ridiculous) . She quietly asked me how I used to pull out my loose teeth when I was a kid. I barely finished telling her when she came back from the kitchen, sat beside me, reached into her mouth with a paper towel and tugged…
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It is that time again…
…the time of cattails,
Typha latifolia
a little later than usual,
but the furry corn dogs are finally ready, and so were my halflings.
Cattail spells were cast on long wands, sending fluff floating high into the sky,
only to rain down into eyes,
and onto the end of long Anubis noses .
Next years crop of cattail wands is going to be a lot larger as I have now introduced another bog tank dedicated to this versatile marginal plant... Read Full Story
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Some rather exuberant New Years firework antics succeeded in igniting the same sago palm as last year, (somewhat of a tradition at this point).
This year, the pyrotechnics also successfully singed a few of my ornamental grasses:
Our “Grand Finale” firework that was placed ceremoniously and somewhat precariously on top of a bucket on top of a trashcan provided quite the spectacle. I was intending to take some pictures of it but the firework simultaneously ignited four of my Mexican... Read Full Story
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Finally Christmas!
This pyramid candle really helped to bridge the long wait for Christmas having tiny gifts embedded into it. The prospect of retrieving some “Pharaoh’s treasure” fueled her imagination for hours…okay 4.5 minutes.
“Daddy? How long do candles take to burn?”
“Hmmph?…Zzzz”
The first eardrum shattering 7am squeal s started when they both ripped open some junior golf clubs from their grandparents in Scotland.
She could not wait to try them out on the range a couple... Read Full Story
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Oh come on…it could have been another episode of the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.”
Unfortunately this gulf coast Tiddalik that Kumo kindly decided to deposit in our saltillo hallway was not quite so lucky on the moisture front…
Bad Kumo!
I have been wondering why our postman has not been delivering our christmas cards of late!
Bad Kumo!
It has been a couple of crazy busy weeks in the Patch. Between the highly polarized activities of moving large quantities of granite,Tejas... Read Full Story
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Oh yes, I think I can officially say that I am ready for our bulk pick up to happen, as I am sure my neighbors are who have had to unfortunately look down on this rather hillbilly scene for the last few weeks.
“Dang, squirrel! And darn.”
I am convinced that these pallets are procreating, they have to be. There are definitely more stacked up with every passing day.
There are also more of these bog cypress leaves in my pond every day along with those strange unidentified “brains” I... Read Full Story
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Scary things agaves. “OVATIFOLIA!”
Talking of being scared…
This was the scene shortly after Kumo had managed to rip the beak off his second mallard to get access to the stuffing. This is his: “schave me from my-shelf” face. He is especially partial to the plastic quacking part.
After our recent rain, (yes we finally got a little) , the moss and lichen on these moss boulders quickly reanimated.
This is my favorite type of rock to use in a landscape for a number of reasons;
the... Read Full Story
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Here is my entry to this months Gardening Gone Wild’s Picture This Photo Contest : http://www.gardeninggonewild.com/?p=19018 .
This month’s theme is portraits.
I caught this strange explorer lurking under this pokeweed plant with its ripening berries. Indians used the juice from these very attractive berries for staining feathers, arrow shafts, and garments, but do not eat them (or any part of this plant) , as the result would be violent and most uncomfortable.
Stay Tuned for:
“Beans... Read Full Story
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“I Think I Jinxed Myself” should perhaps be a more fitting title for this particular post! Little did I know when I titled this post last week that I would a) wake up to a flat tire on my trusty steed b) end up having to buy a “new” tire c) find out a few hours later that the “new” tire also had a hole in it, and d) have to replace the “new” tire with another new “new” tire.
“The Wheels of Change” indeed.
Things are changing finally in Central Texas, nighttime temperatures are now... Read Full Story
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Halloween was met once again in the Patch with a lot enthusiasm, though it did require some last minute costume design decisions:
Was it to be Harry Potter this year? Or perhaps a dandy pirate?
I even had an interview with a vampire on the actual night:
But the scariest thing that happened to me on Halloween happened during daylight hours while I was removing a big circular carpet of this dense groundcover at a client’s house. Now everyone who is a regular reader to the Patch knows of... Read Full Story
