Clever Cycles

Dean and I got back from Europe before the solstice — London and Amsterdam mainly. Blogging has been a low priority, or rather the prospect of writing up the trip properly has kept me procrastinating. Another difficulty is that while candor and dish are part of why people read blogs, our trip was driven by [...]

Late this summer we dug and filled a small pond in our backyard. It’s really no bigger than a large bathtub. Our neighbors donated some hyacinths. A multitude of mosquito larvae appeared within days, somewhat to my surprise. I did a little research about how to control them. A county agency gives away free larvae-eating [...]