Everyone believes that our motto, "It's always sunny for us," should stand. (Mine was the only dissenting vote.)
That's good.
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
The first birdhouse was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bird within hours. Happily, I immediately built another birdhouse.
The back is all scrap wood, pieced together:
The main piece of wood for the front and back of both of them was a piece of particle board that my coworker was throwing away. It was fun to put it all together and make it work. No one is yet living in the second bird house, but the first one is like it's been there for years. Whenever I try and get a good picture of Mr. and Mrs. Bird of the Hexagon House, they hide. They're all like, "No pictures, please!" I would like to have your opinion on what sort of birds they are, but they aren't having it.
The back is all scrap wood, pieced together:
The main piece of wood for the front and back of both of them was a piece of particle board that my coworker was throwing away. It was fun to put it all together and make it work. No one is yet living in the second bird house, but the first one is like it's been there for years. Whenever I try and get a good picture of Mr. and Mrs. Bird of the Hexagon House, they hide. They're all like, "No pictures, please!" I would like to have your opinion on what sort of birds they are, but they aren't having it.
Not to put too fine a point on it...
BAH was experimenting with beehive designs and, like and architect, he made a smaller scale model of a hexagon hive to see how that worked. He determined the hive was too complicated to mass produce, and abandoned the project. So then we had this little hexagon sitting around. It was such a nice little hexagon. I felt sorry for it, doing nothing like that. Then I saw this.
Voila the new hexagon bird chateau:
Made entirely of crap I found laying around... I mean... what do they call it? Recycled materials.
Voila the new hexagon bird chateau:
Made entirely of crap I found laying around... I mean... what do they call it? Recycled materials.
I wonder how the Beatles liked Aunt Lou's house?
She said they spent the night, and John snuck off and slept in the bath. Also, Paul was clearly dead, because the $ sign on his hat is backwards. And he's barefoot. 
Seems legit.
Seems legit.
Family Motto
I've been reading the whole Game of Thrones (also called Song of Ice and Fire) series by George R.R. Martin with BAH and SMILE (Sweet Mother In Law Extraordinaire). You might know that the main families in the series have their own family motto: The Lannisters always pay their debts. 
(It sounds silly, until one of them says, "A Lannister always pays his debts" right before he kills you!) The Starks always say, "Winter is coming."
A little pessimistic, if you think about it. (By the way, if you do read these books, keep in mind that you shouldn't get too attached to any of the characters, because Martin really likes killing characters off in the most gruesome way possible.)
BAH was at work one day. Someone told him to email a coworker. The coworker in question was on vacation in San Francisco, so he wrote,
"Have you ever seen fog covering the Golden Gate Bridge? It's always sunny for me."
Then he decided that should be our family motto, "It's always sunny for us."
That was about three weeks ago. The grass is dying. The trees are withering. It's always sunny for us, and it hasn't rained in three weeks.
It's probably just a coincidence.
Be sure and vote in the poll at the top of the sidebar! Very important, you know.
(It sounds silly, until one of them says, "A Lannister always pays his debts" right before he kills you!) The Starks always say, "Winter is coming."
A little pessimistic, if you think about it. (By the way, if you do read these books, keep in mind that you shouldn't get too attached to any of the characters, because Martin really likes killing characters off in the most gruesome way possible.)
BAH was at work one day. Someone told him to email a coworker. The coworker in question was on vacation in San Francisco, so he wrote,
"Have you ever seen fog covering the Golden Gate Bridge? It's always sunny for me."
Then he decided that should be our family motto, "It's always sunny for us."
That was about three weeks ago. The grass is dying. The trees are withering. It's always sunny for us, and it hasn't rained in three weeks.
It's probably just a coincidence.
Be sure and vote in the poll at the top of the sidebar! Very important, you know.
Our Lifetime Supply of Natural Diet Pills
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was killing time at Walgreens and I read the back of a box of diet pills. Okay, let's be honest: I was considering purchasing a box of diet pills. The main ingredient of the diet pills turned out to be Jerusalem artichokes.
"What a con!" I said, "We've got those in our garden!"
That was my first year of growing them, and I didn't quite yet realize how much Jerusalem artichoke we had in our garden. Jerusalem artichoke, when it's in the ground, looks like a sunflower, but with different leaves. It's about nine feet tall. I knew it was a perennial, but I assumed that, if I dug up the bulbs (because that's the part you eat) they wouldn't come back the next year. After all, my potatoes don't come back the next year when I dig them up.
Not so with Jerusalem artichoke. Every year, I dig them up, and every year, they come back more plentifully. Here they are this year:
I don't know if this picture quite shows how it is spreading away from the garden, right out into the lawn.
We always joke that we won a lifetime supply of Jerusalem artichoke!
It's a joke, because Jerusalem artichoke is bland and lumpy. It's not something anyone would give as a prize, I don't think. I just dutifully eat it once a week, year round, because it's free food that grows in our yard.
But then, a few weeks ago, I started reading nutrition studies, well into the night. [I'm sorry- I couldn't find the exact article for this post.] I'm not sure why, just got interested. As it was heading towards midnight, I came across something that listed Jerusalem artichoke as one of the few foods that really helps you regulate your food intake. Without getting into too much detail, I think I can safely say that it helps you to feel full. So.
The diet pills weren't such a joke, after all!
And I, apparently, have a lifetime supply of natural weight regulation medicine growing right here in my lawn!
Knowing that Jerusalem artichoke helps me stay fit makes me so much happier to eat my free, lumpy mush once a week.
"What a con!" I said, "We've got those in our garden!"
That was my first year of growing them, and I didn't quite yet realize how much Jerusalem artichoke we had in our garden. Jerusalem artichoke, when it's in the ground, looks like a sunflower, but with different leaves. It's about nine feet tall. I knew it was a perennial, but I assumed that, if I dug up the bulbs (because that's the part you eat) they wouldn't come back the next year. After all, my potatoes don't come back the next year when I dig them up.
Not so with Jerusalem artichoke. Every year, I dig them up, and every year, they come back more plentifully. Here they are this year:
I don't know if this picture quite shows how it is spreading away from the garden, right out into the lawn.
We always joke that we won a lifetime supply of Jerusalem artichoke!
It's a joke, because Jerusalem artichoke is bland and lumpy. It's not something anyone would give as a prize, I don't think. I just dutifully eat it once a week, year round, because it's free food that grows in our yard.
But then, a few weeks ago, I started reading nutrition studies, well into the night. [I'm sorry- I couldn't find the exact article for this post.] I'm not sure why, just got interested. As it was heading towards midnight, I came across something that listed Jerusalem artichoke as one of the few foods that really helps you regulate your food intake. Without getting into too much detail, I think I can safely say that it helps you to feel full. So.
The diet pills weren't such a joke, after all!
And I, apparently, have a lifetime supply of natural weight regulation medicine growing right here in my lawn!
Knowing that Jerusalem artichoke helps me stay fit makes me so much happier to eat my free, lumpy mush once a week.
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