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A Requiem for Mr. Diggy | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. The Second Life Contest. The Man Behind the Tree →. A Requiem for Mr. Diggy. January 21, 2013. Mr Diggy as he appeared in his youth. Way back when I bought my Practice Home, twenty years ago, I went to my local highfalutin’ nurseries and asked the experts: what are some plants that can tolerate full sun, full shade, lots of water, but also drought conditions? If there is anything good about owning 50,000 square feet of glacially-scoure...
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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part three, a change of plan) | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part two). Lessons Were Learned, and…HEY! Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part three, a change of plan). February 26, 2013. 8216;Pacific Fire’ Vine maple in a more cultivated setting. The orange-red bark would contrast nicely with the mosses. In late December and into January, while I waited for the soil to. Thaw and my special-order mutant Native plants to arrive. I made plans and drawings for more an...
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A place to land | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Be very, very quiet…. Above it all →. A place to land. August 6, 2012. The photography is furniture is difficult. I should have an all-white background, the piece should be raised up, and the lighting should control glare; I am very sorry to not have these things, because the piece deserves it. You can’t always garden. Sometimes you need to go inside and take your muddy Bogs. My father is 80, and his ‘hand’ is not what it o...Of Black ...
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Hoo…hoo…hoo gonna eat your rodent? | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. In the garden, a memorial. OK…It’s NOT alive. →. Hoo…hoo…hoo gonna eat your rodent? September 12, 2011. People love eagles. Rightfully so: they are our national bird, a symbol of grace and majesty. Plus, look at those bald eagles sitting there. They know they’re cool. Not everyone loves eagles, though. Benjamin Franklin was an eagle skeptic. In a letter to his daughter, Franklin wrote that the eagle is “. Up early Stays up late. Sleepi...
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Who’s the boss? | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Four-legged napalm →. Who’s the boss? April 8, 2011. I am on the phone with Clipboard Lady the next day. “I hope you realize that many of those plants are poorly sited. You have shade lovers in the sun and full sun plants in the shade. If very many of those plants reach their mature size, they’ll crowd each other to death. And the plants near the fence, what were you thinking? Five and a half feet from the house! I questioned her knowl...
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Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part two) | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part one). Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part three, a change of plan) →. Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part two). February 20, 2013. I think I’ll go around those trees and behind that stump, and build some sort of play structure. For two years I had thought that the $5,000 which I set aside was a Survival Bond on the original 289 native plants. Vine maple ‘Pacific fire’ among the yell...Enough an...
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This has been a story, and I have been the hero of it | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. The Moss Garden at Mid-Mitigation. This has been a story, and I have been the hero of it. April 4, 2013. A decade or so ago, my wife said to me:. You should have a blog. Or Frank Lloyd Wright in the way folks seemed to think making dinner turned them into iconic TV chefs. I had opinions on many things, but no story to tell. But when I began working. Been the man in the tree (frequently, quite literally). Less commonly known princip...
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Berry delicious | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. I just keep…wagon training. Be very, very quiet… →. July 24, 2012. Picking teeny tiny berries is a great way to make sure little hands don’t get crampy from making matches and weaving and such. And take cruel advantage of her I-won’t-always-be-seven enthusiasm for Things Mommy and Daddy Say Are Fun. Red Huckleberry is a graceful, ethereal shrub. With small green leaves on branches held. Floating around the San Juan Islands. Red Huckleb...
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Obnoxious invasives | A Thistle in My Sensitive Area
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Let’s be reasonable. Who’s the boss? April 7, 2011. This entry was posted in Property Restrictions. And tagged Invasive Weeds. Let’s be reasonable. Who’s the boss? Pingback: Meditations and musings upon my moss A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Pingback: What am I doing? A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Pingback: Small reveals A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Pingback: You can’t fool Mother Nature A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Lessons We...
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area | Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy | Page 2
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A Thistle in My Sensitive Area. Man vs. Nature vs. Local Bureaucracy. Newer posts →. Change of Mind, Change of Heart (part one). February 15, 2013. When our home was for sale last fall. One evening we found a note taped to our door: “I have questions about your house,” with a name and phone number. Thinking it a potential sale, I called her the next morning. It turned out she only had one question: How did we get the house built? The DPD inspectors, the same who directed the Mitigation Plan. Is being hel...