Obama’s intervention in Libya is typical of the lawless administration’s tactics.
The Beach at Playa Del Rey
I had a dental appointment in Santa Monica today. After we were finished there, we drove back to the house along the coast. The weather looks pretty in this picture, but it’s merely a brief reprise from more stormy weather to come again. The beach is mostly deserted in spite of the sunlight because the temperature was only a balmy 58°s;. Click on the image to enlarge.
California Poppy
When the clouds finally parted after a storm passed through here last night and this morning, there were dozens of poppies in the garden. I took this photo of one that was starting to open. It almost looks like a paper flower. Click on the image to enlarge.
Goodbye Arizona (For a Short While)
Tonight, we’re back in Stormy Southern California to attend to some business and appointments here this week. As we were leaving the Arizona Outback headed for Interstate 10, I took this photo of three saguaros on a hillside with some early spring wildflowers in the foreground. Click on the image to enlarge.
Perigee Moon
CURRENT MOON
Maybe if the cloud cover burns off here this evening, we will be able to see the perigee full moon. I looked at the weather maps for here and the old house in California and it appears that we may not get to see much of it, if any. We did see it big and bright last night when it was at 92% of full, though. It sure was pretty.
We are planning to depart tomorrow morning for the old house. We have some business there this coming week. The weather report says that we’re going to encounter rain, perhaps along the entire route. We’re not looking forward to driving in the rain, but c’est la vie.
Moon widget lifted from moonconnection.com
Courtyard Gate Milestone
A crew from the “Sawmill” installed my beautiful custom courtyard gate yesterday. It looks better than I had imagined now that it is hanging in the archway. “The Sawmill” is the name of the business owned by the artist that carved and painted the petroglyph images on the gate. Click on the image to enlarge. Click here to view the before and after images of the courtyard archway.
A Bag of Worms
We have a compost bin at the California house and we want to try to compost in Arizona as well. In California, when you set up a compost heap, the worms find it since they’re already in the soil there. Not so much in Arizona, though, so you need to supply the worms to the new bin.
Last week we set up a compost bin that we purchased at Lowe’s. We assembled the bin and put it on the west side of the house next to where we keep our trash bin. On further review, however, putting the bin where it can get direct sunlight is a bad idea since the worms can’t take extreme heat.
Image: 250 worms just after they were introduced to the compost bin (inset). Click to enlarge.
This morning, we moved the bin to the north side of the garage where sunlight is seldom seen. We put three bags of topsoil and added some kitchen scraps in the bin and wet it down. That’s where the worms come in – today we received our shipment of 250 red worms from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm. I ordered them last week on-line, and today the post office delivered them. Literally, a bag of worms.
The worms were in a cotton bag packed in dry peat which keeps them protected from heat and cold. The instructions said to introduce the worms to the bin as soon as possible and cover with some wet newspaper. They will dig their way into the earth within 24-48 hours and start doing their thing consuming decomposed scraps and such.
By next spring, we will hopefully have a nice compost heap from which we can extract nitrogen rich soil for Damsel’s desert garden.