Flowers from my garden
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Before and After
I've done a bit of trimming around the yard this past week. We had been planning to remove these pines from the front of the house because they were blocking the view of the house and street, and they were still growing. But this chore was too far down on His to-do list to suit me and it had been there for two years. I'd waited long enough. So, one day, when he was out of town, I took a saw and some pruning shears and cut them down. It took me all of one afternoon. All that was left for him to do was pull out the roots and haul the trash away. That took him a week, but he didn't gripe about me messing with his to-do list.
Before & After
Before & After
You'll have to check back for the progress of my new flower garden.
Friday, April 18, 2008
What's Shakin'?
St Louis was at 4:35 this morning.
By the time you read this you will have heard all the details about a 5.2 earthquake felt here in St. Louis. There was no damage here but it was quite a rolling jolt…bed shaking, windows rattling, etc. Enough to get the adrenalin racing. After living my whole life near the Bay Area in California (until 1993), I’ve experienced quite a few earthquakes, so I knew exactly what was happening when I was awakened from a sound sleep by this one. The only thing I found confusing was that while still in my sleepy state, I thought I was back in California. We went downstairs and make coffee and watched the news and reminded ourselves of what to do in case of a major quake.
So our day started early today. I'm used to earthquakes and think that if you ain't screamin', it ain't nothin'. I'm more fearful of tornados.
Earthquake Facts: From the How Stuff Works site
http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake1.htm
We only hear about earthquakes in the news every once in a while, but they are actually an everyday occurrence on our planet. According to the United States Geological Survey, more than three million earthquakes occur every year. That's about 8,000 a day, or one every 11 seconds!
The vast majority of these 3 million quakes are extremely weak. The law of probability also causes a good number of stronger quakes to happen in uninhabited places where no one feels them. It is the big quakes that occur in highly populated areas that get our attention.
Earthquakes have caused a great deal of property damage over the years, and they have claimed many lives. In the last hundred years alone, there have been more than 1.5 million earthquake-related fatalities. Usually, it's not the shaking ground itself that claims lives -- it's the associated destruction of man-made structures and the instigation of other natural disasters, such as tsunamis, avalanches and landslides.
By the time you read this you will have heard all the details about a 5.2 earthquake felt here in St. Louis. There was no damage here but it was quite a rolling jolt…bed shaking, windows rattling, etc. Enough to get the adrenalin racing. After living my whole life near the Bay Area in California (until 1993), I’ve experienced quite a few earthquakes, so I knew exactly what was happening when I was awakened from a sound sleep by this one. The only thing I found confusing was that while still in my sleepy state, I thought I was back in California. We went downstairs and make coffee and watched the news and reminded ourselves of what to do in case of a major quake.
So our day started early today. I'm used to earthquakes and think that if you ain't screamin', it ain't nothin'. I'm more fearful of tornados.
Earthquake Facts: From the How Stuff Works site
http://science.howstuffworks.com/earthquake1.htm
We only hear about earthquakes in the news every once in a while, but they are actually an everyday occurrence on our planet. According to the United States Geological Survey, more than three million earthquakes occur every year. That's about 8,000 a day, or one every 11 seconds!
The vast majority of these 3 million quakes are extremely weak. The law of probability also causes a good number of stronger quakes to happen in uninhabited places where no one feels them. It is the big quakes that occur in highly populated areas that get our attention.
Earthquakes have caused a great deal of property damage over the years, and they have claimed many lives. In the last hundred years alone, there have been more than 1.5 million earthquake-related fatalities. Usually, it's not the shaking ground itself that claims lives -- it's the associated destruction of man-made structures and the instigation of other natural disasters, such as tsunamis, avalanches and landslides.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Things that happen in the Spring
A sign of spring...
A mourning dove nests in the window of the new bathroom construction giving (another) reason to halt work for now. The mother leaves the nest exposing the egg when I get too close. Snapping the picture, I backed off quickly and she promptly returned.
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