by StephCat | Jul 4, 2009 | House, Triathlon, Yard & Garden
Summer  Knitting and Related Goals finish Curtis’ socks (the first sock needs some surgery, have yet to cast on for the second) finish Helene (currently on the foot of the 2nd) Done! finish Anniversary Socks finish all the other socks I start! (Lizzy,...
by StephCat | Jun 30, 2009 | House, Yard & Garden
One of the things I’ve felt guilty about is that, with how our house & lot is set up, our backyard is just basically a concrete dog run. Actually, I don’t feel guilty about that, that’s just how it is. But it is where Rigel goes out to go to...
by StephCat | Jun 13, 2009 | Yard & Garden
Too late for us because we’ve already done this, but if you’ve been thinking about getting rid of your lawn and replacing with natives, you can get reimbursed $1/square foot. Check out LADWP’s site for details. Of course, this is NOT the time...
by StephCat | Apr 25, 2009 | Food & Wine, Knitting, Tattoos, Travel, Yard & Garden
The 128 is a gorgeous drive although slow — good at the start of a day, it would’ve been bad at the end, and we were very glad we’d decided to spend the weekend in Sebastopol as opposed to driving straight up from LA to Mendocino. We stopped at the...
by StephCat | Apr 3, 2009 | Yard & Garden
Here’s a pic of the yard I took earlier this week from across the street. (I was going to entitle the post Full Frontal but who knows how hard my Akismet spam blocker would have to work after that). We do have some manzanitas that should grow taller over time...
by StephCat | Mar 17, 2009 | Yard & Garden
April 2008: March 2009: April 2008: March 2009: April 2008: March 2009: April 2008 March 2009 I’ll try to get some pics this week from the same angles as in 2008 for better comparison.