Painting and Yardwork in 92 degree heat
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 […]
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Tags: ants, house, painting, planter, Planting Beds
Some New Flowers Popped Up – They are Platycodon Grandiflorus
Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals. The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals. The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip. I managed […]
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Another Day, Another Thunder Storm
After weeks of nightly, hours long, rainy downpours they have subsided a bit, but now we’re getting these daily thunderstorms ripping across the Catskills and through town. I posted a video of one the other day which was pretty fantastic and very active for our area. The thunderstorm video below is in the daytime and […]
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Tags: bluestone, grass, gutters, Lawn, patchmaster, planter, seed, storms, thunderstorm, Video
Budding Plant with Ants Identified
I did a bit more searching to find out what the plant in the below picture is as I have a couple of them in the front planter. According to the info I could find they are called Peonies and the ants just like the sugar and stuff that comes off the buds. I’m not […]
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Another Lazy Sunday
Well, we’ve all heard the saying that ‘Idle hands are the Devil’s work’ but this doesn’t qualify as the Devil’s work, but maybe not very productive. I went out with my friend Ollie today and got some flying in at a local small field. It’s been a long time since I’ve actually flown at a […]
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