We have a lot of black ants around the property, mostly close to the house it seems. They’re about 1″ long at most. I’d like to get rid of them and I sprayed (yes yes I know not good for Mother Nature) some Ortho Perimeter Defense Max around the house, again, tonight. I feel terrible, [...]

Continue Reading Is There a ‘Nice’ Way to Get Rid of Ants?

Tags: ants, black ants, earth, eliminate, get rid of, max, nature, ortho, poison, remove

I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and was getting tired of winding the 100 foot hose back into a pile.  We went to Lowe’s a while back and I was looking for a hose reel while Bryn was looking for herb seeds and such.   I saw this thing and decided to spend the 75 bucks on it.  [...]

Continue Reading Yardwork Helpers – Auto Winding Hose Reel

Tags: arhtritis, RA, rheumatoid arthritis

I came across this really cool link of a video on Gizmodo which you can find here under ‘Light as Performance Art’ .  I’m not sure if I like the music or the art better (sorry, weird musical tastes, I like space-out stuff)      Anyways I decided to try some extended exposures with my Sony [...]

Continue Reading Time Delayed Exposures / Slow Shutter, Light Art (I lied this is post 2 of 3 for today, not 2 of 2)

Tags: Light Art, Long Exposure

Okay, I bought some more Scott’s QuickPatch for part of the left side lawn I leveled off with topsoil and applied it tonight.  I put the soil down a week or so ago and we had a major rainstorm which I helped level it out and make it part of the yard.  I put weed [...]

Continue Reading Lawn Watch 2009 *tense music* (1 of 2 posts today)

Tags: grass, grass seed, Lawn, Weeds

Well, we’ve all heard the saying that ‘Idle hands are the Devil’s work’ but this doesn’t qualify as the Devil’s work, but maybe not very productive.   I went out with my friend Ollie today and got some flying in at a local small field.   It’s been a long time since I’ve actually flown at a [...]

Continue Reading Another Lazy Sunday

Tags: Helicopter, planter, Radio Control, rc, rocket