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Work Hard

June 25, 2012

For the first time, I accepted a summer teaching position. It was bound to happen eventually, since they ask me every year!

So instead of lazing around playing video games for the next month with a cat in my lap, I’ll be teaching every weekday for 2 hours and 20 minutes. I expect the workload to be fairly high.

Emi is particularly unhappy, since she’s the one that will miss out on her favourite lap to sleep in 🙂

Right now, on the very eve (first lecture is in an hour), I wonder what came over me when I accepted this position 🙂

Go South!

May 31, 2012

Tomorrow we’re off to Florida!

We’ll be staying at Animal Kingdom, in Disney World. Obviously we’ll spend a lot of time at the Disney parks (we have a 7 day ticket) and we are also planning on taking a day trip or two…

You can follow our exploits on this very blog, and also on the Twitter. If you’re one of those people who doesn’t follow Twitter, you can reach my tweets here.

Also, if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ll get a postcard. So watch your mailbox!

A Garden Post

May 27, 2012

It’s been a very long time since I did a post on the garden, and since they were always very popular I’m probably overdue for another!

Last weekend we bought a new whiskey barrel for our back patio, and planted a calla lily and some ‘red things’ in it. Our original barrel has this year been devoted to morning glories and some other type of flower at the base. Here’s a shot:

Some detail of the plants:

That light is solar powered. I expect we’ll have to move it when they grow in!

For the front yard, the first significant change I made this year was to remove one of the hedge bushes near our mailbox and letting the black-eyed Susan’s take over:

We also bought a ‘white bush’ (possibly a dwarf willow) and planted it near our steps:

It’s small now, but it’ll be bigger in a few years!

Lastly, in the ongoing struggle to control our ‘front garden’, we added more hosta and ferns. It’s slow going, but I think we improve it every year:

Incidentally this post was 100% done from my phone, which is what I plan on doing from Florida next week. How does it look?