It's not *exactly* procrastination.
Feb. 11th, 2017 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI didn't want to get all hot and sticky before I'd seen the latest RWBY (new episodes scheduled to air 11am EST on Saturdays) so I faffed about collecting antique wallpaper pics from Cooper-Hewitt until it was time.
RWBY is a US based anime. The animation is cool, the music is exciting, the characters are love (the female characters in particular are wonderful, strong, beautiful, angsty, stubborn, flawed and very human.) It's a continuous arc- starting out very light-hearted, and getting you to fall in love with the characters, but gradually things get darker as the villains' plans begin to succeed, and the heroes face increasingly tougher challenges. I love the way they gradually reveal aspects of the world, the countries, the peoples, the history, the individual backstories. Lots of surprises! It's hard to talk about RWBY without spoilering- heck even the title means something you discover.
You can watch it on Youtube and see if you like it. Today was the last episode of Season 4, so you can binge watch a lot, if you get hooked on it. I don't know when Season 5 begins, but I'll be biting my nails waiting for it. SO MUCH is happening to all my loves.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RoosterTeeth/videos
Maybe later I'll fix up and post some park pics. Gotta go fight Asps now.
The plant was so long that I had to back up until I was nearly out of my yard before I could get all of it in one photo.
I apologize for the unfortunately phallic appearance!
I was trying to outline to show the leaves at left, the length of stem in between, and the mass of root at the end. It’s a root ball. Um, yes.
This is not even the biggest Asparagus fern I’ve removed, but it was particularly difficult. It was growing between my chain link fence, and the neighbor’s wood fence. There was a space on my side between bushes large enough for a shovel, but not much more. The roots are too hard to break with a shovel, so I’ve been digging underneath until they are loose, but this one had grown a mass of root into the chain link, so after digging a foot deep hole and failing repeatedly to pull it up or pull it out or pull it down (much laying on my knees on the dirt) I got a small secatur and gradually snipped the root ball out of the fence. I wound up with dirt so far up my arms it filled up my gauntlets (they reach above my elbows.)
So, that took 2 hours. For one plant. I am wiped out. Will resume the battle tomorrow.
I just spent several hours sorting out over 40 pics from the park. Will start posting them tomorrow, my hands are sore. It's mostly the usual cast of characters, 2 species of iguanas, ibis, turkey vultures, various water birds, but there are a few ponies, a cat, some pretty pigeons, etc.
Ow, hands are so sore. *flumph*
RWBY is a US based anime. The animation is cool, the music is exciting, the characters are love (the female characters in particular are wonderful, strong, beautiful, angsty, stubborn, flawed and very human.) It's a continuous arc- starting out very light-hearted, and getting you to fall in love with the characters, but gradually things get darker as the villains' plans begin to succeed, and the heroes face increasingly tougher challenges. I love the way they gradually reveal aspects of the world, the countries, the peoples, the history, the individual backstories. Lots of surprises! It's hard to talk about RWBY without spoilering- heck even the title means something you discover.
You can watch it on Youtube and see if you like it. Today was the last episode of Season 4, so you can binge watch a lot, if you get hooked on it. I don't know when Season 5 begins, but I'll be biting my nails waiting for it. SO MUCH is happening to all my loves.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RoosterTeeth/videos
Maybe later I'll fix up and post some park pics. Gotta go fight Asps now.
The plant was so long that I had to back up until I was nearly out of my yard before I could get all of it in one photo.
I apologize for the unfortunately phallic appearance!
I was trying to outline to show the leaves at left, the length of stem in between, and the mass of root at the end. It’s a root ball. Um, yes.
This is not even the biggest Asparagus fern I’ve removed, but it was particularly difficult. It was growing between my chain link fence, and the neighbor’s wood fence. There was a space on my side between bushes large enough for a shovel, but not much more. The roots are too hard to break with a shovel, so I’ve been digging underneath until they are loose, but this one had grown a mass of root into the chain link, so after digging a foot deep hole and failing repeatedly to pull it up or pull it out or pull it down (much laying on my knees on the dirt) I got a small secatur and gradually snipped the root ball out of the fence. I wound up with dirt so far up my arms it filled up my gauntlets (they reach above my elbows.)
So, that took 2 hours. For one plant. I am wiped out. Will resume the battle tomorrow.
I just spent several hours sorting out over 40 pics from the park. Will start posting them tomorrow, my hands are sore. It's mostly the usual cast of characters, 2 species of iguanas, ibis, turkey vultures, various water birds, but there are a few ponies, a cat, some pretty pigeons, etc.
Ow, hands are so sore. *flumph*
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Date: 2017-02-14 12:21 pm (UTC)Die, Fern, die!
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Date: 2017-02-14 03:28 pm (UTC)Neighbor doesn't live there - he rents it out to a bunch of people. He pays to have the yard mowed once in a while, but never asks them to trim the hedges, or do anything else, so there are bushes the size of trees, with Asp covering them up 20 feet or higher.
I asked once, a long time ago, if he minded if I cut back the stuff that met my fence line & he didn't care, so I'm assuming that holds good.