Sir – no worries, your vehicle will be available Tuesday, and you are all set. Now it is Thursday, and I am not set. The finance guy goes missing (granted, some folks did get considerable amounts of snow). They can’t find the documentation (really? What happened to all those photocopies that were made last week?). […]
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Oh come on…
Posted in Rants & Raves on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More white stuff?
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Weatherwise, it hasn’t been all that quiet since the last December snow storm that dumped a foot of the white powder. We’ve had a couple of inches here and there, and just three days ago on Saturday we received a persistent blanket of six inches or so. Persistent because it is still covering the grass […]
Oh deer
Posted in Fauna, Interesting, Rants & Raves on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Deer have come up a few times recently. Everyone is complaining about how there are too many deer on Cape Cod. I’ve only seen them sporadically around 6A. Saw a buck once in Nickerson state park a few years back. I never felt like we’re being overrun by them – I tend to think there […]
Ugh…
Posted in Rants & Raves on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I wish they would cut those trees back, the way they are hanging over the street, they scare me”. I am not sure how the lady got onto that subject, but when I heard those words come out of her mouth, it registered immediately. She was talking about one of my favorite streets on Cape […]
A nice day on the pond
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I went fishing today, or, more precisely, I dangled bait in the water for a few hours. I tried a different pond in Nickerson State Park. I normally fish Cliff pond, and once in a while Little Cliff. The first did not produce any fish when I tried last week, the second was covered by […]
Goodbye 2010
Posted in Rants & Raves on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another year has passed. This one wasn’t particularly bad, nor was it particularly interesting or exhilarating. Kind of a blah year actually, chiefly because I was way too busy doing things I had to do, not want to do. However – Whatever my feelings and thoughts about 2010, those will fade and change. Our time […]
First storm of the season
Posted in Rants & Raves on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Winter weather is finally here. It came announced but underestimated. They said we’d get some flurries, maximum accumulation of an inch or so, maybe. It would have been nice to know the real character of this storm before I left for work this morning.  In hindsight, I would not have left at all. Four hours of mostly […]
Bioswales
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on December 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With all the problems involving run-off and high nitrates in the coastal zone, I wonder if retro-fitting some of our yards and town properties to include bioswales and raingardens would be helpful. Some of the blame may go to septic systems, to be sure. But Cape Cod is not immune to our unfortunate desire to […]
Treatise on off-topic
Posted in Rants & Raves on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OK, a treatise this is not, but it should be considered a treat, “it” being the fact that my musings are not easily contained to the original topic. Yes, I will discuss and elaborate on the many native plants that are to be found in my garden. But it is winter, and I live on […]
Concrete evidence
Posted in Rants & Raves on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Took the concrete highway into concrete hell again today and will do the reverse jaunt tonight. Why do this to yourself, you say? Because I get to go home, that’s why! Home at last after all these years of merely “residing”. Without a sense of place there’s merely that sense of loss that you can’t […]