Well, the weather finally stopped being screwy and i finally got the energy to repot the bowl of cacti, including the injured fishhook cactus and its larger companion. Unfortunately I seem to have left it too long - I figured the injured one was already dead, but the larger one started to lean way over atop the redheaded cactus, and at first I ( Read more... )

Some shithead took my cacti ( Read more... )

Goddamn we need to move. Between the leaky roof, flooding cellar, my room being open to animals crawling underneath it, the dead possums that result, cheeky fucking mice, occasional ant infestations and wasps sometimes nesting in our crumbling exterior windowframes ( Read more... )

I found the newest spot where the cats are getting under the house. Long story short, the siding around the back addition, my room, has nothing behind it sealing off the crawlspace from the outdoors, and the cats and raccoons have found or made numerous weaknesses in that siding through which they keep getting in no matter how I block it off. And ( Read more... )

So I get up pretty late Saturday afternoon, because I was up way too late the night before, and the first thing I notice after looking out the front window is...a hole in the road guarded by two little construction barriers. It's smack in the center of the street, almost directly lined up with the property line between our house and the neighbor's ( Read more... )

Whee blizzard ( Read more... )

Sooo...I found out today that none of the supposedly grounded outlets in my room are actually grounded. This means I can't use the surge protector my brother got me, as a belated birthday present. Boo ( Read more... )

Hey, we're getting our first hard freeze. No more bugs! Yay!

I wonder what this says about me. (g) I took an alignment test as three different chars, and these were my results. Angel will understand the character refs.

Nikolai:Chaotic Good - A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He ( Read more... )

This weekend marks the second time I'll have to bring the cacti inside for the night since spring, with the temperature forecast to dip below 45 - all the way down to 38, in fact.* I have to make four trips now thanks to having so many of the little fuckers. (g ( Read more... )