Our house sits on .48 acres with several mature trees. In the building of the house, a large portion of the yard was dug up, naturally. These things I knew of. What I wasn’t expecting was the massive network of roots throughout the yard for a shrub that will not die. It’s everywhere, in some…

That is all. 🙁

Ha! I have a place to put quotes I find funny. And there’s nothing you can do about it! “I have an MCSE cert, that doesn’t mean I get together with steve balmer on the weekends and shoot penguins.” — robbiethefett, in this Slashdot article concerning the RIAA and the University of Washington. Also, this…

…because I’m way too tired to think of one. Mentally, at least. Been getting a decent amount of sleep, despite sometimes intense abdominal pain. Thankfully I’m finally seeing a specialist end of next week to get some definitive progress made on alleviating that, and until then the doc gave me some better pain meds that…

Raked leaf build up from north side of driveway, in preparation of leveling out the area (most likely with some gravel). Used leaf build up as mulch around front tulip tree and dogwood. The locks were changed. Turned over dirt in front flower bed so that it is now ready for planting. Received mail, but…

Mailbox is up, and on our side of the street. It’s still a bit wobbly at the base, but we’ve got about 9 inches to build up the dirt around it to stabilize it more later. For now, it should work to a.) get us mail this week, or b.) get the post office to…

There was a thunderstorm during the night, so we get one of our first views of the yard in its wet state. Mostly it just highlights the fact that we need to do some serious work on the front ditch near the driveway. And we thought a new house would be low maintenance. 😛 Both…

Further humiliation via the mailbox. Seriously considering just getting a PO Box now and accepting the $50 lesson for the materials. 🙁

I was finally able to play with the new weedwacker. I’m very glad pogle had me buy some protective glasses, as almost immediately a giant green glob of plant matter splattered on the glasses. 😛 While at Lowes we picked up some gardening supplies and two little shrubs: a white Endless Summer Hydrangea and Miss…

So, we’re driving over to Lowe’s to get some gardening stuff for Michele. In my truck I tried to turn on the MP3-CD player I have hooked up, but it wouldn’t activate. Michele fiddled with it for a few, then sadly declared that it had bitten the ghost. Much laughter later, I explained the origins…