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Continue Reading Hard Drive Crash, whoops.

I was looking at the search stats this evening (what folks search to get to my site) and I’m amazed at the number of results of people who come here to see the ‘ants on flower buds‘ and the ‘house centipede‘ posts.  I never would have thought they would be such heavily searched items.  Anyways, [...]

Continue Reading Interesting Search Results

Tags: ants, centipede

I’m patiently awaiting for the arrival of some new parts for my Mini-Titan. I wasn’t very happy with the plastic control arms on the rotor head that came with the kit, they tend to flex under load. I’m already running an ACE metal CNC head block on the helicopter, so I’m doing a partial upgrade [...]

Continue Reading Some New Parts for the Mini-Titan e325

Tags: e325, Helicopter

A couple of days ago we posted pictures of the lawn where we had done the Scott’s PatchMaster patch over new topsoil we put down to try and level a big low spot in the lawn. There was no grass to be seen, but I said it would pop up any day now.
Well, we went [...]

Continue Reading Lawn Watch 2009 – Update

Tags: Fill, grass, grass seed, Lawn, patchmaster, Topsoil, Weeds

I did a bit more searching to find out what the plant in the below picture is as I have a couple of them in the front planter.  According to the info I could find they are called Peonies and the ants just like the sugar and stuff that comes off the buds.  I’m not [...]

Continue Reading Budding Plant with Ants Identified

Tags: ants, flowers, planter, Planting Beds