This is a Yellow Garden Spider who has taken up residence on the side of the garage. She/he disappeared when it got cold, but then was back as soon as it warmed up, so must have found someplace close that’s sheltered. The Missouri Conservationist featured an article by Joel Vance on spiders that I found [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 28, 2008
In this corner …
we have a corner, and string, and not much else so far. The guys showed up bright and early in the cold this morning and started in with boards, stakes, string and long steel tapes, and after while they vanished, but we seem to have corners and a layout now. This is the view from [...]
October 25, 2008
A fun visit …
except it was much too short. A while back I had an email from Edie Eckman that she was going to be in Kansas City and St. Louis, doing a book tour for her new book, could we get together? Well sure we could work something out!
So we [Himself & I - you can see [...]
October 19, 2008
Cookies!
At the store the other day, I saw chocolate chips made with semisweet and white chocolate, and just had to try them – your classic impulse purchase. The recipe on the bag is almost the old standard for Toll House Cookies, except it calls for mixing 1 cup of the chips into the cookies and [...]
October 16, 2008
Now we know …
why they didn’t dig a full basement under this house when it was built in about 1961. Look at the layer of rock underneath the red clay – they broke rock off and on for 2 days. It was a good thing the white pipe (connected to a downspout) was there when it rained yesterday [...]
October 13, 2008
2 Scoops …
with the big Cat excavator = 1 truckload, and a whole lot of truckloads came out of this hole! We weren’t sure if we’d have a basement under the addition until they started digging, but after much pounding/rock breaking today, there will be a basement. Now we’ve got our fingers crossed that we won’t get [...]
October 10, 2008
Changes & a Fall Drive
We’ve been talking about adding on to the house for a number of years – a new kitchen, master bedroom, more than just 1 bathroom … then when we finally got ready to do it, it’s just kept on raining, and raining. So one machine showed up yesterday and dug around, largely locating the water [...]
