Pic Spam 3 of 3 Ehouse yard, etc.

[feng_shui_house]

EDIT 3: Both my emails (including my emergency back-up at excite.com) now refuse to recognize my passwords. The activity monitor of my email says that I am connecting to both servers ok, so at least it's not that Comcast is blacklisting me from sending mail. I think someone's attacking the Internet today.

EDIT 2: I added a bit to the cat-burglar. It's short, because I didn't want to miss a day posting to mininanowrimo & don't trust LJ or whatever is going on with the net today. Just as well, I'd written up to where I knew what was happening...
The whole thing.

Cut just to today's addition.

EDIT: ARGH. My email went out again.


I call this weed a 'potato vine'. The 'potatoes' made the plant it was growning on so heavy that it was bent in half. The largest ones were the size and weight of baking potatoes. I chopped the whole thing down & tried to pull up the roots. I do not like potato vine, even though it does give the place a Tarzan jungle look.


A VERY blustery day. My portable fence is fubared. I just left the bits lying on the ground. I don't feel up to work today.


Artifact dug up in my yard the other day.The greenish white dried up rubber bits were a hollow ball with the yellow plastic flag inserted. My parents moved from NY (I think the MU prefix stood for... Murray Hill, all the prefixes were abbreviations of areas, I think) to So. Fla with my oldest brother as a baby back not long after WWII. They didn't move directly to Ehouse, though, so I'm not sure how this whatever it is, wound up in the ground here.

I googled and I think the man who started that business now is with his family doing auctioneering. I'm considering emailing him this photo out of nostalgia.


Female racerunner- for once I got the whole tail in without shrinking the 'zard.



Plastic scraps from fixing the fence (*sigh* I have to figure out new fixing techniques now that it's broken in other ways.)

A pruning bits giraffe

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

The potato vine is beautiful, it would cover all these ugly nooks in the garden here.
Always pleased to see a racerunner, and she is even with the whole tail! How long is she? Our lizards are small, about 10 cm.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure the potato vine is subtropical & would do poorly elsewhere. Otherwise it would have taken over the world by now! ;^)

The smallest adult females are probably twice the size of yours... (looks at double-sided tape measure in/cm... *nods*) Yes, that one was at least 20.5 cm. The males can get to be 31cm easily. There's another type of lizard I haven't very often recently, the Cuban Knight Anole, which can get up to 46 cm.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh, that big! Wonderful!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm glad there aren't any iguanas in my neighborhood, they get 6 foot long! I guess that's about 2 meters?

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Pretty racerunner. Love the blustery palm trees. I had no idea potato vines looked like that.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I only *call* it a potato vine. Potatoes grow underground. Whatever the heck this thing is, it's probably not edible. I wasn't about to experiment. :^)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Is the fruit of the potato vine edible?
Love the giraffes!
The racreunner is gorgeous too and my what a long tail she has!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The 'potato vine' is a volunteer weed, I have no idea what it is. It might be deadly poison, or the staple food of a Caribbean tribe. I'll never know. :^)

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

That racerunner is beautiful - I love the close up you got of her face. And yay! giraffes - I've missed them for the two weeks I was away. :o)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I haven't had time to giraffe lately! So many fic commitments, etc.