Mid-July Update
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furtechAh, summer. Shady creek, happy dogs
Here's the full Flickr set
While R0ndo wallows in the creek, I've been busy with a number of projects-- some fun (costume experiment, small video projects), some necessary (cleaning; organizing; cleaning-- sigh).
My partner in crime is out with her family for their summer fun-trip. She'll also be staying on to help me out on a few projects, so I've been scrambling to get stuff ready (that way we can maximize her limited time out here). She is an amazing organizer as well-- more importantly, she can tell the difference between Scott foam and regular foam; L-200 and L-300; NFT fur and fun fur. She's agreed to help organize both the storage and workshop (I'll owe her bigtime!). Plus (as incentive-- she demanded *some* play along with the work) she and I will be trying a build-experiment I have been curious about. Big rubbery monster-thing!
In the meantime, it's been hot here (more like normal, actually). When I take the dogs for hikes, I try to find places that still have water. Aliso Canyon is wonderful: three minutes away, shadey and there are a couple of places that still have water (that isn't too disgusting). R0ndo-- who hates baths-- loves to lounge in the creek. Happy dog.
A couple of the oak seedlings (the ones not destroyed by Apache) didn't look so hot: yellow leaves, probably because of over-watering. This morning I took some time from my project preps to transplant a few of them into larger pots. These will hold more water and give their roots some more room. We'll see if I got to them in time. I keep forgetting how much I love to work with dirt and sun and water.
Lastly-- a beetle. A BIG beetle. Found this on a friend's porch. I didn't remember to put a quarter down as size-reference, but the bricks help: these are standard-size bricks and you can see in the second picture how he's almost have a brick width long (about two inches)!
Roz, can you check "Insects of Los Angeles" and ID this thing? He was -huge-!
Oh, and Eric's friend highly recommended Roadside Plants of Southern California. I've just ordered it from Amazon, so I'll let you take a look at it when it arrives.
Here's the full Flickr set
While R0ndo wallows in the creek, I've been busy with a number of projects-- some fun (costume experiment, small video projects), some necessary (cleaning; organizing; cleaning-- sigh).
My partner in crime is out with her family for their summer fun-trip. She'll also be staying on to help me out on a few projects, so I've been scrambling to get stuff ready (that way we can maximize her limited time out here). She is an amazing organizer as well-- more importantly, she can tell the difference between Scott foam and regular foam; L-200 and L-300; NFT fur and fun fur. She's agreed to help organize both the storage and workshop (I'll owe her bigtime!). Plus (as incentive-- she demanded *some* play along with the work) she and I will be trying a build-experiment I have been curious about. Big rubbery monster-thing!
In the meantime, it's been hot here (more like normal, actually). When I take the dogs for hikes, I try to find places that still have water. Aliso Canyon is wonderful: three minutes away, shadey and there are a couple of places that still have water (that isn't too disgusting). R0ndo-- who hates baths-- loves to lounge in the creek. Happy dog.
A couple of the oak seedlings (the ones not destroyed by Apache) didn't look so hot: yellow leaves, probably because of over-watering. This morning I took some time from my project preps to transplant a few of them into larger pots. These will hold more water and give their roots some more room. We'll see if I got to them in time. I keep forgetting how much I love to work with dirt and sun and water.
Lastly-- a beetle. A BIG beetle. Found this on a friend's porch. I didn't remember to put a quarter down as size-reference, but the bricks help: these are standard-size bricks and you can see in the second picture how he's almost have a brick width long (about two inches)!
Roz, can you check "Insects of Los Angeles" and ID this thing? He was -huge-!
Oh, and Eric's friend highly recommended Roadside Plants of Southern California. I've just ordered it from Amazon, so I'll let you take a look at it when it arrives.
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Date: 2009-07-11 11:34 pm (UTC)I love this pics of Rondo. He looks so happy!
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Date: 2009-07-11 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-12 12:29 am (UTC)Next time I see one I'll be sure to have someone pick him up...(Roz is going to berate me for not getting him for the kittens...)
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Date: 2009-07-12 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-12 06:47 am (UTC)Plus-- you have palo verde bugs there-- impressively ugly/scary/huge bug!