Pics of the backyard with the stars from My Truck Leroy!  We love them!  more pics tonight with the candles lit…..

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Not a lot happening the last week except lots of work and lots of driving to & from work.
I don’t really talk about my job on this blog — it’s not that interesting things don’t happen at work, it’s just I don’t want to risk any breach of client/patient confidentiality issues. And I want [...]

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Switchbacks plus Crest 08/09/2009 with Melanie, D/SFind more Bike Rides in Redondo Beach, California
*Note that Steve entered this map. Our mileage was probably a bit different because we went home a different way.
**Check out the elevation.

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Made from stacked recycled concrete, recycled flagstone, and a basin/plant saucer.  I’ve ordered a water wiggler from Amazon  — it was the quickest/easiest option to get some water movement to attract birds, though I would like to do some sort of drip/mist thing.

More views here.

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So far the new plants seem very happy in the backyard.  The Mimulus cardinalis seems to have new blooms.
Dave’s been working hard at recycling the concrete from the backyard as edging for the front.  He’s also been edging with river rock.  I redid the herb-garden-to-be bed, made a new flagstone path along the upper part [...]

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Knitalongs / KALs generally do not work for me.  (“Work for me” means I end up with an FO in a timely manner.)  Oh, I’ll get all excited, and cast on, but sooner or later something else seems to catch my interest or gains priority.  Am Kamin is one example.  I still love that sweater [...]

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