Deep Water
Here is the Shorts cuteness for today. The images are a little grainy due to (I guess) bad lighting.
Shorts on a dirty towel by my dirty clothes hamper:
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Shorts on a pair of old school, nylon, rip-stop, hand-me-down, camo pants:
Click for full size version. That pink thing in the background is a candle. What did you think it was?!
In spite of pain from having my wisdom teeth removed and a secondary sinus infection, I decided to tough out a two hour, fast ramble this evening. I went to the oral surgeon for a checkup today and everything looked “pritty gud.” Sitting around the house was getting old, so I decided to go for it. I wasn’t sure I would make it, but since I’m such a badass*, you know I did. I pushed myself maybe just a tad harder than I “should” have, so I might be sitting out Thursday’s ramble (gotta “date” anyway, so… yeah, skippin’ it).
It was a stair ramble, my first. We climbed about two thousand stairs. We also climbed some pretty major hills. Blah blah blah. Here are some photos (as usual, taken with iPhone & edited with GIMP).
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*Yeah, I’m such a badass. You love it.
Getting out into the yard today was good. I need to get out there more often. I keep thinking about gardening but get overwhelmed with the thought of it, partly because I’m also doing like 50 million other things (at least), but gardening and composting is really important to me. The compost pile is in full effect (yo), but the most I’ve done with gardening is daydream about luscious, home grown kale.
What I need to do is just start small and build up. There is a small bed next to the garage and also a small frame that our landlord dropped off for a raised bed. I’m going to start with one of these and just one or two “crops” then work my way up to other stuff. Also, on a related note, inspired by a recent blog post elsewhere, I plan to start sprouting.
What are they looking at? Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
After I mowed the lawn, Shorts and Totes came outside to investigate. They sniffed around and chased each other a bit. They’re not quite to the point of snuggling together, but I think that’s coming soon. I’ll post here as soon as they do.
Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
Lawns are weird. I’m not sure why most people have one. They don’t seem to be fully utilized all that often. We water them just to mow them down. On top of that, we could be growing food, not some pesky weed. In fact, we could just grow dandelions and other edible “weeds”–they’re highly nutritious. But we hate dandelions in this culture.
Having said that, I actually enjoy mowing the lawn. Not with one of those noisy, polluting gas mowers but with a push mower. Now, that, my friends, is some good, clean fun. It’s somehow meditative and a damn good workout. Not that it’s all that hard, mind you. The push mower I used looks ancient, but it cut that grass down like nobody’s business.
Photo taken with iPhone and edited with GIMP.
Take that, grass!
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