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Happy First of May!

Make an effort to listen to Jonathan Coulton‘s “First of May” from “Smoking Monkey” album, it is guaranteed to make you smile. Oh, if you are at work, use headphones; it may be NSFW in some offices.

Sakura ga suki desu

While I was laid up with the nasty coughing flu, the seasons delivered great beauty to our back yard. Only the last five photos are from this past weekend, others are from earlier this season.

The joys of being a home owner

Erci and I have some pretty amazing good fortune/karma lately. We came home from work to find all the lights on (a feature of our lights is that events can trip an ALL-ON signal to all the X-10 controllers in the house and turn on all the lights). Typically this is from the alarm being […]

New Lawn Mower on Order

Last Friday morning, after several days of research into my choices, I ordered a new Ariens Mini Zoom 1540 riding lawn mower from Lawn & Leisure of Sterling, VA. Joel at Lawn & Leisure was very helpful and applied no high pressure sales tactics. Buying any riding, rotary mower was hard for me to do. […]