http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Barbie Pink is the New Black en-us ayse@blue-room.com 2009-06-23T20:18:16-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001784.html It's been a bit dull on the house front around here. We had a death in the family and work got a bit out of control, so not much has been going on. Soon, though. In the meantime, guess what... 1784@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Update 2009-06-23T20:18:16-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001777.html This week we have been eating blueberries: And cherries (some Black Tartarian, some Lambert): It's funny. We get an organic veggie/fruit box every week from a local farm, and there have been cherries in the box that tasted really great... 1777@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-06-03T16:40:51-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001774.html Without the missiles. We spent this morning and early afternoon making more panels of anti-dog fence for the garden. Noel cut the wood to size, then cut slots in it on the table saw. Then he strapped the pieces together... 1774@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-05-30T18:14:56-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001772.html Not quite repellent, but Noel made me this prototype anti-dog fence yesterday: For those not in the know, the requirements are: 1. resistant to dogs on all four sides, as dogs have been known to try squeezing under, sliding over,... 1772@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-05-27T21:39:05-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001770.html This week, we've been eating fresh cherries! Yes, somehow the cherry tree has produced lots and lots of fruit this year with little or no urging on our part, and only minor predation from birds. We're also enjoying strawberries (I... 1770@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-05-24T11:19:52-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001768.html Noel has spent even more quality time at the electronics bench, and made some modifications to the door setup, and now we have a chicken door that will automatically go up and down via a web interface on our home... 1768@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Chicken Shed 2009-05-20T14:16:51-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001767.html Our big weekend project was getting the last bits of plumbing done for a hose bibb at the chicken shed. We also decided to move the pump indoors (so we didn't have to built it a little pump house to... 1767@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Yard 2009-05-17T21:20:30-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001766.html On Friday morning, Noel coated the niche in Peel-Away. It's absolutely the best way of handling curved and finicky surfaces covered in paint, and we have buckets of it purchased for use on our woodwork. Doesn't make a dent in... 1766@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Update 2009-05-16T21:42:48-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001765.html We are just back from spending several days in beautiful New York Mills, Minnesota (home, for those not in the know, of the New York Mills Philharmonic). Not a vacation, per se, but what might have been a deathbed visit... 1765@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Yard 2009-05-13T21:50:37-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001764.html Sometimes when I make a garden report post, I get e-mail saying I'm a bit uptight about Latin names. And that is true; I like to give the real name of a plant so anybody who wants one knows what... 1764@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-05-08T00:22:42-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001763.html One of this year's projects was to run two more irrigation lines out to the chicken shed (one to offer a spigot of water for filling the watering can or rinsing hands, and another to help water the compost, and... 1763@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Chicken Shed 2009-05-07T00:42:35-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001762.html Noel has been a busy busy boy the last week or so. For an hour or more every day he dons HEPA mask and grabs the heat gun or Silent Paint Remover (on loan from the neighbors), and attacks various... 1762@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Accordion Room 2009-05-05T20:09:51-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001760.html We are still alive, really. I've just been really really busy with the AIA convention, which was in San Francisco this year. I did a bunch of volunteering for the convention, and also scheduled a bunch of educational sessions, and... 1760@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Garden 2009-05-04T15:05:26-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001759.html Yesterday was quite the Home Automation day. We've been dithering on the subject of replacing the water tank pump for the irrigation system for, oh, months. Instead I was dragging the hose from the sump around the garden, which is... 1759@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Back Yard 2009-04-27T10:18:01-08:00 http://www.casadecrepit.com/archives/001757.html It's been an outrageously busy couple of weeks, so we've made no progress inside. But we also had a couple days of blisteringly hot weather, and that brought out the blooms in the garden. I think the plants all think... 1757@http://www.casadecrepit.com/ Landscaping 2009-04-24T10:19:31-08:00