Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
After five years in the house, we finally got the outside repainted! And prior to that I fixed a planter wall! I felt like Hercules, seriously.
There is a bland trend in my neighborhood toward Tuscan inspired color schemes where the trim is a shade lighter or darker than the base color. I think that’s what ours was intended to be too, though I never quite figured out what the color was supposed to be (even before it faded). A kind of peachy tan? An apricot sand?
Now we have a beautiful, fresh house. The roof still needs cleaning, but it’s gorgeous!
I made a thing. It is my second stop motion-ish video and I learn something new each time. By no means is it perfect; this is totally learning by doing. But I’m still proud I made a thing.
I have been digging deep into the history of my 1949 house, which invariably means learning all about everything around it, that is, Tampa. Thankfully, I work at a library with digitized pictures and historical documentation to keep me busy for a long time. I can’t tell you exactly why I love this picture. It could be the cans of Heinz Macaroni above the Heinz Spaghetti…also canned.
It could be the largest cans, also of the healthiest seeming products, that is, turnip greens and the like, are perched precariously at the tippy top. Whatever it is, I think it is important to share this wonderful photo of a lady shopper.
In addition to my developing obsession with finding author voices relating to developments in copyright law, I have been searching every resource I can find to figure out interesting ways of communicating to students and faculty on campus about copyright. The most hilarious resource might be the most obvious: the Copyright Office’s FAQ. My favorite questions:
The questions are perfect examples of how the vast reach of copyright is often misinterpreted to be an unlimited reach.
From what I can tell, our house originally had a breezeway that connected the main bit to the carport and workrooms. Sometime in the early 60s this breezeway was turned into an extra room and the workrooms were reconfigured to serve as additional bathroom and bedroom space.
Maybe the unfinished half-wall in the carport was put up during this time. We are learning, as we brainstorm how to deal with the open cinder block cubbies, how previous owners used the wall.
Our latest find: Beer can! It’s from the pre-pop days when you had to punch holes in the can yourself.
Can you see him? This redbellied woodpecker is one of two that I’ve seen around that largish hole in the branch. He was playing hide and seek with me, so this is as good a picture as I could manage. I think they may be nesting in that branch. Fingers crossed that the branch holds up for as long as they need it…it looks pretty dead.
And I’m not talking early in the season, because they are right on time. With a little more rain than usual during the winter, their flowering did not get delayed like last year. No, my early pineapples are first year bloomers!
I swear I am not going crazy. The pineapple plants that came with the house have quadrupled in number over the years and I feel I have gained quite a bit of experience with them. In the past years, whether planting tops or pups, each plant would take about two years before it bloomed
That is not what is happening this year. I have a pretty decent number of two year old plants that are pushing their cone shaped flowers into the air. In addition to this I have at least three one year old plants (one pictured) that are doing the same.
We have 12 blooming pineapples at the moment! Thankfully at slightly different stages of development. I have been attempting population control, but I might have to set up a produce stand by the road!
it is springing all over the place in my yards and I have a renewed obsession with documenting all I find. you are forewarned…more yard to come.
I am a little calendar obsessed. And I live in Florida. Yet, I had never heard of Pascua Florida Day before this year. A spring time holiday, Pascua Florida means, roughly, feast of the flowers. It is a State of Florida celebration by statute, and as a state day it ” commemorates the sighting of Florida by Spanish explorer Ponce de León (LINK).”
Even so, it doesn’t seem like we do much with the day, which I think is a shame. I’m a little late in brainstorming this year. Thinking cap is on for 2020. What do you think would be the best way to celebrate Pascua Florida?
“I was out to get a sinker for nooning and some Big Six shambles in front of me without so much as a mind the grease. I was all glimflashy! But, I didn’t want to go waking snakes so I cheesed it before starting a bobbery.”
What was that now?
Sinker – a doughnut ( Flapperspeak: Dictionary of Words From the 1920’s and 1930’s )
Nooning – an interval for rest and refreshment at midday, as in the harvest field (1891 American Slang Dictionary by James Maitland)