Tag Archives: Gretchen Quarterman

Plants escaped 2020-12-13

Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.

All the plants

They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading →

Two paths, two dogs 2020-12-04

There are two paths you can go on. Also two dogs.

Two paths, two dogs

Actually, four dogs, but the other two already ran ahead.

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Why my laptop kept overheating 2020-12-03

Mystery solved.

Fan covered in dust

Fortunately, Gretchen had some compressed air.

The dogs wondered what I was doing creating a dust storm on the porch.

Also I swapped the laptop’s memory for twice as much, and now it doesn’t hang several times a day like before, even with google-earth-pro, facebook, google drive, wordpress, and about forty other things in tabs.

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What was I thinking? –Gretchen at the cane bed 2020-11-29

That’s less than half of the sugar cane on the bed when Gretchen wondered, “What was I thinking?”

Bed, covers, bedded.

Nervous Nellie thought it was great fun, running up and down the cane bed as I was digging it. The other dogs got bored and went home.

Gretchen cut almost all of the cane with her machete. (She didn’t approve of my axe.) Continue reading →

Fire in wood stove 2020-11-17

It’s that time of year.

Heat and light

Plenty of dead oaks to cut up for firewood.

That’s good, but also troubling: too many dead trees due to spells of drought and heat.

Here’s a brief video: Continue reading →

First class dog 2020-11-13

My chair is occupied.

Honeybun in chair

I don’t remember leaving a napkin on my porch chair. I think Honeybun has a flight attendant.

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Porch dogs at night, and Yellow Dog, too 2020-10-24

Despite how it sometimes seems, the porch dogs do from time to time stop barking and just lie quietly on their beds. In this case both on the same bed, because Yellow Dog was in residence.

Yellow Dog, Honeybun, Nervous Nellie, far to near

Don’t worry, there are actually four beds, one for each dog, if they want them.

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Dogs in their beautyberry bath 2020-10-22

Cleanly, those porch dogs are. After a walk, Honeybun stuck her head under the bathwater and paddled furiously. Nervous Nellie seemed more inclined to get a drink.

Yes, that’s beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, around the dog beauty bath.

Honeybun and Nervous Nellie in the beautyberry bathtub