And thus the Lord did mightly smite…our pecan tree apparently. We had some unexplained stuff at the Clarksville house last weekend… A tripped circuit breaker on the old wiring…the old knob and tube wiring that remains is on one 15 amp circuit in the new breaker box. It just provides some lights in parts of [...]
Food
Apparently we ordered too many peaches…
We must have ordered too many peaches this year. Early on, I knocked a bunch off the tree as even when they were grape-sized I could see there were too many. I didn’t take near enough. The extremely heavy crop, combined with some wind from a storm last week, smashed two of the big limbs [...]
Mood
Summer’s here…
Yeah, I know summer officially starts on June 21…but we’re here in Texas and we know summer when we see it…hot, sunny, chance of thunder-storms…sweat pouring out of my salt-stained shirt…AC running overtime…temperatures at NIGHT not falling below 85 degrees… Yeah, it’s summer. Maintenance stuff more than rennovating stuff this weekend…I got all the tree [...]
Paint
To sleep, perchance to dream…
We (kind of, sort of) took this weekend off. Several things conspired. Lots of work at…well…work, not enough sleep (due to same), and also we got the wife’s car back from the body shop. All the extra running around simply added up to the fact that we weren’t ready to go Friday night or Saturday [...]
Yard
Roses!
Y’all may recall the exploding rose bush from about this time last year… They are back again this year. Roses are blooming with wild abandon all over town! Here’s a couple of ours! It’s been a really nice spring! Hmmmm…the month of May now, is it? Texas? About time for the temps to be set [...]
Holiday Greetings
Halloween was a blast!
This was our first Halloween in the Old Vic…we had no idea what to expect, but figured it was a worthy house to have a fun Halloween in and we’d decorate a bit. In our surburban “blah” house in Garland, Halloween had faded away. The number of kids sliding each year and the effort they [...]
Mood
The Plant Did it…
One of the fun things about the first year or so of ownership of something like the The Old Vic is all the surprise plants that show up. At least one of them is an alien. See this thing? There was no sign of it when we bought the house…well, maybe a little sign…a small [...]
Food
Oh Peaches (pictures)
I promised pictures… The most productive tree…it’s about a 25 footer. It had TONS of large peaches. This tree is weighed down with them, but they are all very small (very tasty though!) The bigger tree again…this limb is strained to the breaking point. There are already hundreds on the ground. YUM! About 12 pounds [...]
Food
Oh…peaches!
Peaches. Lots of ‘em. There are three peach trees in our backyard at the Old Vic. It’s a bumper crop. They are are bowed to the ground with peaches. They were not quite ripe last weekend, but many were falling anyway…making it quite interesting when I was weed-eating under the trees… Bzzzzzzzzzz splat splut splatter [...]
