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Well, the news of the Cicada apocalypse has come true in Saugerties, NY, or at least some parts of it. My home is an old property, the house itself was built in 1882 and I’m sure a few of the trees around here are at least as old as the house. I, like most people, […]

Continue Reading Cicadas Brood II in Saugerties, NY 2013

Tags: ants, bugs, Cicada, General, summer

Wow, today was a scorcher once again, it’s been pretty warm out lately but that didn’t stop work from proceeding on painting the house and doing some yard work. Fridays are half day for me and it feels like we worked all day on some of these projects. We’ve been slowly scraping and priming the […]

Continue Reading Painting and Yardwork in 92 degree heat

Tags: ants, house, painting, planter, Planting Beds

Well I woke to quite a surprise this morning!   Mushrooms everywhere in the new lawn.  Bryn had mentioned he mowed a bunch down when he mowed on Saturday but I didn’t think a lot about it.  He didn’t mention that it was like this. Wow! I guess some things get lost in the verbiage 😀 […]

Continue Reading There are Mushrooms Everywhere on My New Lawn

Tags: ants, grass, Lawn, spiders, Topsoil

Me bad hunter, me look hard for big man eating spider,  I no find big spider 🙁 I’m alive so you can take that as a clue that I didn’t find the giant spider spider I had seen previously by the barn.  While this is a bit of a relief to me in some ways,  […]

Continue Reading Hunter fail at job *ugh*

Tags: ants, spiders

I just wanted to thank everyone for reading my blog pages. It’s been a lot of fun writing and sharing everything from paver sidewalks, ant murdercide and strange articles from time to time. Yesterday I was home on defective body leave, again, I went out to my truck to grab some papework, and at that […]

Continue Reading I died for you... (maybe) In case I don't return, these are my last notes.

Tags: ants, barn, spiders