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Sedum

June 10, 2012 by Lloyd 4 Comments

Lauren has to “open” tomorrow, and has already turned in for the night. I promised to write something, but I didn’t promise that it would be worth reading…

When I was a little boy, I could spend hours out in the woods looking at patches of moss and lichen at the base of trees or on rocks that I think might have been boulders if they had been uncovered rather than buried in the earth. I would imagine that they were a whole landscape instead of a little patch of one. A single stone would become a whole hill or a forest. Brad planted some sedum in pots near the front steps of our house a few years ago, and I’ve never looked at it very closely. A few days ago, I noticed that it was blooming and I bent closer to see what the flowers looked like.

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I was lucky that I didn’t spend hours looking at them. Or maybe I wasn’t.

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Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: garden, memories

Roses are red…

April 18, 2012 by Lloyd 6 Comments

[twocol_one]Pros

Pretty.

Don’t need to be mowed???

I think they ward off vampires.

better than cat’s paw

[/twocol_one]

[twocol_one_last]Cons

Yard Nazi neighbor

Technically weeds

Lauren might be a vampire.

may be harbinger of alien conquest

[/twocol_one_last]

Feel free to add items to either list.

Filed Under: Journal, Lloyd Tagged With: flowers, garden, weeds, yard

Sorry I’m late….

October 25, 2011 by Lauren 7 Comments

What’d I miss, guys?

…guys?

Where is everyone?

Gonna be a short season for this one.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: garden

The Holly and the Lloydy

April 12, 2011 by Lloyd 16 Comments

Brad planted a holly plant in our back yard years and years ago. It was nice, but pointy and  hurty when you touched it. Some years after that they dug up the pipe from our house to the city sewer line, and the holly was right in the path. We plopped it back down, but it was pretty damaged.

It was completely bare for the first two feet, then leaves started. Brad thought it looked cool, so we left it. Lately it’s just been an ever expanding bush, and needed to be trimmed back or dug up or something. But during this winter the old chiminea fell on it.

I thought that was a good look, so I decided to go with a new “ancient ruins” theme.

If you’ve had anything to do with Holly, you know how painful this was for both me and the plant.

But eventually I got the whole thing wired up just about right. In a few years this will look really cool or really dead. I think I’m okay with either outcome.

Have you noticed that as you get older, your event horizon gets longer? “This ought to look nice in half a decade” is not a thought that Lloyd of the past would have had.

Filed Under: Bad ideas, Home 'Improvement' Tagged With: chiminea, garden, holly, plants

This Could be Trouble

July 29, 2009 by Lloyd 12 Comments

If you’re in Seward you should watch out, because there is one more of whatever came out of this around somewhere.

Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.

If you happen to know what came out of this, AND IT IS LESS TERRIFYING THAN THIS, please let us know. Otherwise just keep it to yourself.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: garden, scary

Dream garden

April 27, 2009 by Lauren 12 Comments

Something you should know about me is that I obsessively think daydream about stuff all day long. I like to think of it as honing my ‘thinking outside the box’ skills, which will look really good on my resume after I get fired for daydreaming so much.

Lately I’ve been thinking about this garden/tomato/lettuce thing. I’ve read a bit on how to make a raised garden bed, and while I have a heap of unused lumber in the basement, I’ve also got a heap of concrete blocks. Couldn’t I just arrange them in a pattern, fill the holes with dirt, plant a tomato plant in the middle and lettuce in the holes on the outside? Who cares if it wouldn’t work – doesn’t it look awesome in your imagination? Don’t rain on my parade with ‘facts’ or ‘reliable, tested information’ or ‘stuff any idiot gardener would know’.
I’m tryin’ it.

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Filed Under: Drawings, Eco-Freaky, Prototype Tagged With: blocks, garden

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