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When sugarcane attacks

1. September 2010

Seriously! While out with the dogs this morning I passed the time pulling the dead stuff off the various plants… as one does. Including the sugarcane, part of my ‘survival garden’. Afterward it felt like pins were sticking out of my fingers and arms… and they were! The full monty: I had to take macros [...]

Cuban anole

28. August 2010

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Turns out I did have some help, in the form of a cuban anole. Tail-free, courtesy a predator. He was especially coy with me as I stalked him from one side of the tree to the other, usually allowing only one eye to show. Click to embiggen.

Lesser of two evils?

25. August 2010

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Rick “let’s get to work” Scott won the Republican primary for governor of Florida last night. I did not vote for him. I’d vowed ‘no career politicians’ this year but even flip-flopping career pol Bill McCollum looked better than Scott. But it’s like Russian roulette; you know you’re going to get screwed any way you [...]

Stemming The Tide…

12. August 2010

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This was my job right out of high school: That led to jobs bussing and waiting tables while I went to college, until construction is what I settled on and started the process of climbing up the ladder, at 20-something all over again by doing this initially: I dug my ass off until I could [...]

Dear wRitErsbLock:

27. July 2010

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I’ll see your puny little banana spider lookalike and raise you this hairy mofo… it’s almost as big as my hand. Doncha just love Florida?? Went out to check the gate after the yard guys left and met this charming native on the path. Oh, it must die.

Cornered?

25. July 2010

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Not if they’re free to move about the rest of the country, like, say, PENNSYLVANIA: PHOENIX (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block. A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen [...]

Charlie’s Folly

21. July 2010

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Florida Governor Charlie Crist called a special session to consider placing an amendment on the November ballot banning off shore oil drilling. It went badly for the man now seeking a U.S. Senate seat. Or did it? Why play out such a political game of chess unless he sought to gain votes by being seen [...]

Rain

30. June 2010

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Four freaking plugins and several tufts of hair later, my cool little video of rain is not posted here. Walked out to the front porch this morning because it was ‘monsooning’ -that’s what we call it, anyway. What made it all really lovely, aside from the noise of the downpour and the fact that I [...]

Plus one

11. May 2010

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One of my babies from two years ago turned up this morning with a lone duckling.

Spiny Orb Weaver

1. May 2010

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Hubby and I were just remarking on the absence of spiders in the yard since hiring the exterminators, but while working outside yesterday I stumbled across this little lady. They’re insect predators, so very welcome here.