Thursday, May 26, 2011

getting uprooted

Easy glider. Paired on the tree, these seeds will split when they fall, spinning and generating lift to slow their descent.
Credit: David Lentink

We have large Maple trees in the front and back of our house; yes they are lovely, and yes, they can be a pain in the @*%! Let me explain, their seeds are referred to as "helicopters" (because of the way they spiral in air-see above pic,) AND they fill your gutters and lawn with baby Maple trees-everywhere. Today Mike spent time on the roof, blowing all the helicopters out of our gutters (dear lord this smelled foul-beware.)


Oh, and we finally have a leaf blower! Good friends of ours were cleaning out their garage before they moved to NC, and thus we became the proud owners of our new (to us) leaf blower. Woot.

Mike sporting his new leaf blower (and new haircut hehe)


A persistent peony decided to sprout from underneath our dumpster. Thats no place for such a fancy flower-it's moving day.


Currently living in a bucket. Seeking a permanent home...

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