I got more pictures back, so will share a few with you:
Missy and Prince are keeping WS company while he is working on the computer. Also visible is the plant stand with grow lights. The visible plants are in 6" pots in the picture.
Just because they look so pathetic, another pic of Missy and Prince. I stood on part of the workout bench to take the picture (the plant stand was 1' to the right of me). As you can tell, there is absolutely no room for working out!
This is from my flowering maple (Abutilon). It is a houseplant that blooms February-April (actually looks like it may go till May this year). It is a very messy plant, dropping leaves all over the place - all the time. It also isn't very graceful, with branches growing willy-nilly - very long and very few too (and yes, I have tried cutting it back, doesn't help at all). I swear every year after it gets done blooming that I will rip it out of the pot and be done with it, but it doesn't happen. Maybe this year.
WS took some pictures of damage to our road from this spring's flood. This is the side of the road a bit uphill from us. None of the pictures convey the damage very well, this rift is a couple of feet deep and the road is undermined to the crack in the center of the picture (in the bottom).
The neighbor across the street had a 3' deep gully in his driveway and at his mailbox.
This shows the uphill view from the gully in the neighbor's driveway. In the center of the picture you can see where the road has caved in - once again that is a 2' drop or so from the top portion of the pavement to the caved in portion. There is a big air pocket that goes even further under the road. The road is strong enough to carry vehicles, as long as something heavy doesn't stop or slow down there (like an oil or propane truck). What initially caused the cave-in was the town grader stopped there for a couple of minutes; once he started moving again, it just buckled.
And just to leave you on a happier note:
I know you can't tell, but the bird on the tube feeder is a purple finch. We had several of them around for a couple of weeks (and 3 snowstorms). The birds on the railing and the platform feeder (behind the tarp-covered woodrack) are juncos and there is a chickadee on the suet feeder.
See the chickadee coming in for a landing on the railing? There is a titmouse on the tube feeder and juncos everywhere else (squirrel-proof feeder, suet feeder, feeder handle and woodrack). We had some really inventive juncos this year considering they are mostly ground feeders!
That is is for the pictures. I should have more next weekend as I dropped a roll of film off on Thursday.
How in the world did you ever get WS to park at a computer? Put bike pics up on it?
Just curious.
Nasty looking roadways. I know that isn't ICT so you think they may have them repaired soon? If it were ICT, we'd still be guessing about the repair date a year from now.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | April 29, 2007 at 09:12 PM
Road repair? It's not in the town budget - we are on a 20 year plan (actually, after this year's town meeting, it has turned into a 21 year plan). They will get some gravel down at some point. Since this road was re-done something like 5 years ago, we still have another 15 years to go before a true repair is done.
WS on the computer - he is making some welding certs for work. That is the only thing he does on the computer (started about 6 months ago).
Posted by: bogie | April 30, 2007 at 06:35 AM