SpiderFarmer

I promised pics of the duckling flotilla, the mockingbird nest, and to round out the 4×4 square, I threw some pics of KARED. (Killer Attack Rose of Evil Death)

1. mockingbird_nest 013, 2. mockingbird_nest 011, 3. mockingbird_nest 008, 4. duckling_flotilla 005, 5. duckling_flotilla 006, 6. duckling_flotilla 009, 7. duckling_flotilla 013, 8. duckling_flotilla 013, 9. duckling_flotilla 007, [...]

So, we had mockingbirds build a nest in the trumpet vines on our arbor.  Today, the eggs hatched, and we could hear the little “peep, peep!” of baby birds as the momma kept flying over there with various bits of bugs to feed them.
I got some pictures of momma, but the nest is about a [...]

This is just heartbreaking. From kcet.org
Foreclosure Alley
For the past few years, the Inland Empire in Riverside County has been one of the fastest growing counties in the state – home to a major housing boom. But now the Inland Empire is pretty much the poster child for the foreclosure crisis. SoCal Connected tracked down [...]

Igor’s Squirmy Wormy Pie
It’s not easy being an Igor.  There’s all the lurching, and being woken
at every thunderstorm to throw the Big Switch, and being  fitted for a hump
can take days.  But there are advantages.  A damp basement to call
your own, (with fresh straw twice a year if you’re good), and all the worms you
can [...]

I do this all the time. I look at some impossible home project, and suddenly in my mind, I’m Bob the Freaking Builder. I am apparently quite insane.
None of the walls are straight. Not one. There is not a single 45 degree angle in that entire room. The potty [...]