Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Here's another project that got a bit bigger than I was expecting. I have a lovely "Josephine" clematis that I want to plant between the backyard gate and the house as a replacement for grapevine that has been growing there.
This is an unusual spot where a small deck is ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
...and I gave him two beers for his thoughtfulness.
Here's the bird at issue-- a life-sized plastic owl meant to scare away the pigeons on my roof. Yes, despite installing metal spikes on most of their favorite roosting and nesting spots, the pigeons have enough roosting places available to ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
My fellow Minneapolis houseblogger, StuccoHouse, has me inspired! She just replaced a pair of aluminum combination storm windows with solid wood storms and they look fabulous.
Shamelessly following her lead, I just completed the online price quote request for three wooden combination storm/screen windows from Adams Architectural Wood Products. ...
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
The end is near! It's raining pigeon eggs! What a cruel harbinger of apocolyptic events soon to unfold!
Or maybe the pigeons are trying unsuccessfully to build nests on my roof in the places I installed bird spikes last year. I suppose that's a credible ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
On the same day my push-button light switches arrived in the mail, another package was waiting for me also: pigeon spikes and adhesive shipped all the way from jolly ol' England.
I've been battling these belligerent birds for months now. I sweep away their nests; they build new ones. ...
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