Sunday, October 30, 2005

Let us go a nutting


I haven't really counted the number of pecan trees on my property but the former owner planted over 100 I am told. Poor irrigation techniques and substandard pipe took their toll. Many trees are missing out of about 6 rows on probably 6 acres. These are some nice hybrids I'm sure. Some of the trees are actually regrown branches from root stock and have our small native nuts. I'm holding some of those in my palm. The larger, hybrid nuts are in their rind in the second picture. I will try and keep as many of the remaining trees alive if I can.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Things are looking up


It may be dreadfully hot here in Rockport, but the sunflowers are starting to bloom and we've got quite a few on the property that are much taller than Marsha. This scrawny one is at the front of our drive. About two steps behind Marsha, just beside the sunflower is a fire ant nest. Can you guess how we know that?

See our pecan trees off in the distance?

Monday, July 11, 2005

Our first Christmas


This has to be a picture of Marsha and my first Christmas together. I can't remember where this was taken. Our apartment? That's my Fender in the background. Mom is laughing at me and Ralph, my brother is trying to keep up. So that is what I looked like when I was young, Edouard.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Miss the stuff you like looking at

7 and a half acres is a bunch of grass to mow. That poor John Deere yard tractor is really over matched.

My philosophy is miss the stuff you like looking at. It's a good philosophy ... as far as it goes. Things work out just dandy when I miss the indian blankets. The problems occure when I don't really know what I'm missing. Take for example the field thistles I let grow. These are 2 foot monsters that spread their thorny lower leaves in two foot circles while sending up their attractive purple flowers. Unfortunately they can take over a field and render it useless save for thistle growing. I relented and mowed them over.

Of coures we must remember that Rockport is mesquite country and just a week or 10 days of "missing" a mesquite sapling will inflict serious pain to your tires or fingers.

I'm still missing, but now I'm being selective in what I miss. Mexican hats, brown-eyed susans, and silver-leaved sunflowers - in. Field thistles, mesquite volunteers, and poison ivy - out!

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Outside the Workshop



Often we become so fixated on the goals we set for ourselves in our various workshops that we forget that much is happening just outside the window. I know that behind me, for example, in another room waits a door wanting its case molding and a bathroom in need of a water hook up.

But through the screen, just there on the left is the bamboo in my back yard that grows 30 feet tall, under which the chickens love to scratch. Beneath its litter of long lancate leaves peek the handful of emerging shoots that will slowly build themselves skyward this summer. They too are taking care of business.

Behing the workshop a colony of golden paper wasps set up house inside the fill tank of an old toilet. I was meaning to take it to the well house but I never seemed to have time to get out there and move it. I finally did, hoping that the wasps would stay calm enough while I moved it that a quick trip to the medicine cabinet would not be necessary. I survived and am hoping that this years crop of caterpillars will be greatly diminished because of my neighborly attitude to our local population of Polistes.

So many things are happening out there beyond the workshop window. I'm going to have to get out there with the camera and take a few snap shots for posterity.

Remember to get out there yourself and take a look around sometime, but be sure to stand clear of the stinging things.

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Old Pot


pot
Originally uploaded by wirerabbit.
So when am I going to have time to make some new pots? Who knows.

You can never go home again

While this may very well be true (I wouldn't know), thanks to the blogiverse you can simply make a new home for yourself when you want to go to it!

Case in point, I'm moving stuff from the old blog site http://wirerabbithutch.blogspot.com/ to this one.

God, it's good to be home.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Home Sweet Home

I have put links to all my old posts onto this blog. This is where I will reside in the matrix from now on.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

First things first

Well, I have no idea why I never started my blogging at this address rather than at www.wirerabbithutch.blogspot.com but I did.

I will have to move everthing over to here if I can.