busy busy busy
June 10th, 2010 nickIt’s been a busy few weeks here at the 611. We’re learning to eat with our hands and from a spoon, look like a zombie when we’re done eating strawberries, spend lots of time on our bellies and play with friends.
shameless
March 28th, 2010 nickA crop of new(ish) photos to add to the mix.
snow day
February 6th, 2010 nickNow that’s what I call a real winter storm…
a highlight
January 3rd, 2010 nickThis may just be my favorite picture from xmas up in Leverett…
Taken immediately after Christmas dinner with the best Yorkshire Pudding ever. We say that every year but this year we meant it.
More photos to come soon. Go Sox.
Mr. Snuffles
November 13th, 2009 nickIt’s been a whirlwind few days. We’ve barely had time to sleep and eat let alone take photos and blog. But here are a few from days 0-2 in the life of Oscar, who was known as Mr. Snuffles until we decided on a name.
dad’s you tube education
November 13th, 2009 nickI was up at 5am, not 11 hours after Oscar’s arrival, all anxious that I didn’t know how to swaddle or put on a pre-fold cloth diaper. You Tube to the rescue!
presto change-o
October 22nd, 2009 nickTonight, we put the top on the dresser and — voila! — a changing table.
The product of a few months’ turtle-paced planning and labor. Notice the mitre joint and routed edges, thanks to Laughton’s chop saw and our new router attachments for the dremel.
garden photos
July 24th, 2009 nickTrying out Shashin, a highly recommended Picasa plugin for WordPress — a good excuse to put some of today’s garden photos up online.
Sill-ripened.
This morning’s harvest.
Hampden grapes.
Peppers in place of Paul.
Curly cuke.
We got all kinds of seedlings growing in the baltimore sun.
gardening ups and downs
June 29th, 2009 nickThe prize of our garden, a large and leafy and dark green Paul Robeson tomato plant, succumbed to some kind of wilt this past week. We came back last Sunday and it was looking droopy. Thinking it might be a lack of water, we gave it a good soaking. The wilt continued and spread throughout the plant. By Wednesday, we knew it was a goner. We salvaged the five or six good-size fruits that were already set (fried green tomatoes, anyone?) and chopped it down on Saturday, cutting out losses and making way for a few new pepper plants (Portugal hots, chocolate, and Klari cheese) in the big container.
The sadness of losing “Paul” as we’d taken to calling him, was offset slightly by the resurgence of the oxalis plant in the home office. I had given up hope for this little guy, seeing as he’d been in dormancy for over 6 months. But Kip advised me to keep my hopes alive and I kept up the occasional waterings, just in case. Sure enough, on one of those hot summery days last week, out came three shoots (at the same time, but from different rooted lobes?).
We suspect a bacterial wilt although we didn’t observe any of the milky whitish seepage from the cut stems. A few photos (below) show the pith having turned brown — looks like the water just couldn’t make it out to the leaves. Two of our other tomato plants look like they might have Fusarium wilt, but, as recommended by Cheryl at Mill Valley, I sprayed lightly with a rubbing alcohol/water (1:3 ratio) mix. Hopefully that will slow down any more evil-doers out to sabotage our tomato crop.
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| By the end of the week, the entire plant looked like the branch on the left. | A cross-section of the main stem. |
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| The stem was brown all the way through. |
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| The new oxalis shoots. |
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