Author: doug

Lis brought home a praying mantis from work today! They found it in the museum, and Lis figured our garden would be a better spot.  Here it is guarding our basil plants — maybe it will catch whatever’s been eating them.

We’re getting our floors redone; they got the sanding and first coat done today.  When a woodworker says a water-based finish “raises the grain” of a piece of wood, this is what he means: it swells the different components of the wood structure differently, leaving a rough texture.

We are having our floors redone, so Parker is staying with Lis’s mom.  He looks like he’s settling in just fine.

Hydrangea is a plant that is adapted to grow in sandy soil — that is, tolerates dry conditions fairly well.  When hydrangea plants look like this, you know we need rain!
 

And yes, I watered them.

Lis and I went to Arnold Arboretum today.  We saw lots of trees and shrubs, and that was cool and all, but we also got to watch a spider catch and kill a caterpillar many times her own size.  Now that’s cool!

Pet him and see… he’s a kitty who’s a hundred and three…

Lis is usually the one to play with a straw wrapper in a restaurant as we wait for dinner.  This evening, it was my turn.

My favorite kind of leftovers: pie!

It’s the rare 3-clawed lobstah!
 

(not really. I just stuck another claw underneath.)

Our yard in Newton is not as large as the one we had in Southboro, but it still holds a clambake.