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thanateRain has stopped (at least for now), and they're digging the hole in the back yard (and the back steps are gone already! eep!) We haven't replaced the sump yet, but since it hasn't yet re-filled enough that the pump would turn on if it were working, I'm not too worried. Also, it turns out that the dehumidifier has an air filter on the intake (um, who'd have thought?) and when you fail to clean said filter for, um, a year and a half of use, the accumulated gunk collects on the condenser plate and blocks up the drip into the bucket. So that's fixed now...
Of course, one of the morons next door who's in the process of removing all the bushes from the lot just tried to explain to me that trees don't grow under other trees (apparently he hasn't bothered to look up and notice my oaks) which is why he's clear cutting the bushes. Oh, and he's only responsible to the bank, so what anyone might think increases property value doesn't matter to him. I hate people. Fortunately, that's mostly north of us, so any increase in light should help *my* bushes take off rather than burning out my understory/shrubs.
Here, have some pokeweed. (The robins have been eating it as it ripens, much to the amusement of their viewers as they bob about)
One of the robins in question. (of course one can never photograph them actually bobbing...)
I also have some lovely NY ironweed flowering, which fell over in the rain before I got a picture of it. It's starting to perk back up now.
And insect life: a profusion of milkweed bugs, sucking the sap out of the butterfly weed pods,
and a late July mantis (though I've seen at least one new hatchling recently, too!)
And for something a little different, the pretty basement window: (dust and all...)
Lump glass from the woman who sold the place, a nuanced collection of brick (some archaeological backfill in various states of destruction/preservation, one looted from a shipwreck), modern surface collection bottles, & our Maryland state flower on the other side of the glass. Also the sun, which appears to exist after all.
Of course, one of the morons next door who's in the process of removing all the bushes from the lot just tried to explain to me that trees don't grow under other trees (apparently he hasn't bothered to look up and notice my oaks) which is why he's clear cutting the bushes. Oh, and he's only responsible to the bank, so what anyone might think increases property value doesn't matter to him. I hate people. Fortunately, that's mostly north of us, so any increase in light should help *my* bushes take off rather than burning out my understory/shrubs.
Here, have some pokeweed. (The robins have been eating it as it ripens, much to the amusement of their viewers as they bob about)
One of the robins in question. (of course one can never photograph them actually bobbing...)
I also have some lovely NY ironweed flowering, which fell over in the rain before I got a picture of it. It's starting to perk back up now.
And insect life: a profusion of milkweed bugs, sucking the sap out of the butterfly weed pods,
and a late July mantis (though I've seen at least one new hatchling recently, too!)
And for something a little different, the pretty basement window: (dust and all...)
Lump glass from the woman who sold the place, a nuanced collection of brick (some archaeological backfill in various states of destruction/preservation, one looted from a shipwreck), modern surface collection bottles, & our Maryland state flower on the other side of the glass. Also the sun, which appears to exist after all.