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Noisy Neighbor Revenge
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 8:08AM What on earth happened to this poor tree?
Angry beavers, that's what.
How do I know the beavers are angry?
Because they went for the very biggest tree and are chewing it so that it will fall right on the fence.
Why are the beavers angry?
Noisy neighbors, that's why. This little punk is always having wild parties. If he were my neighbor, I might chew down a few trees myself, and if my landlord weren't helpful, I might be tempted to cause a little bit of property damage.
Damage.
Get it?
Dam-age?
Hahahahaha!
Wasting Time
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 8:52AM I should probably be cleaning something or weeding something or teaching something, but I've been much too busy playing with my new best friend Poladroid.
It's the cutest application ever. After you download it, you open it up and drag pictures onto the camera. It clicks and whirs and spits out a thumbnail onto your desktop to develop. It's so much fun!
It's great because you can salvage pictures that aren't quite good enough to frame. Imperfections are part of the old Polaroid camera's charm. I like charm. I think it's because I don't have much of it myself.
The program is a little buggy (meaning I've had to download it more than twice) but hey, it's Free and Fabulous, and a few weevils never killed anybody.
You can play with the pictures in your photo editor afterwards, too. I decided I didn't really want the frame around my milkweed, so I cropped it out:
And then I decided that since I was already wasting time, I might as well see what it looks like in black and white. Me like.
Crap, I gotta go. My mother (who has never wasted a single minute in her entire life, God love her) is calling me. She'll want an explanation for my not cooking something or weeding something or teaching something.
"Um, I'm doing research."
"Um, I'm developing my creative talents."
"All right, all right! I'm coming!"
nature in The Squares 
Gettysburg, PA: Marsh Creek
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 9:01AM The Goobs were in the creek within five minutes of parking at the campground.
They were soon out again, but only because they wanted their swimsuits.
If we're not out on the battlefield, they're in the creek. They've been having a fantastic time, though JellyMan seems to fall down an awful lot. (I think he must do it on purpose, but I just smile benignly and go back to my book and my peach iced tea with vodka.)
Other mothers have been giving me dirty looks because now THEIR children want to play in the creek. I know how they feel. Anything could be in that creek - parasites, fishing hooks, human waste, pesticide, leeches, water moccasins. Yes, they're right to be concerned.
They should get themselves some peach iced tea and put some vodka in it. That'd calm 'em down.
The Goobers, nature in The Squares Vacation
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 2:31PM 
Because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (and it doesn't do Jill any favors, either.)
The Goobers, nature in The Squares