A milestone

June 8. One year of blogging. Another few white hairs in my (half nekkid) beard (no really, they're blond! Yeah, that's it...).

Did anybody really believe that something special would happen on June 6, 2006? Maybe the same people who thought something special would happen Jan 1, 2000, or 2001, or any other numerical coincidence. Some people have too much time on their hands. Like me. Although I'm getting more projects than I like today. Last night the ceiling fan in the living room vibrated itself out of the ceiling. Two feet of cable pulled down and stopped the fan about 6' up. Wife was wondering what the noise was, what the cats had gotten into now, when I told her to look up from the chair she was sitting in. It seems the electrical box in the ceiling was only held in by a screwdown pressure fitting between two lath strips (gotta love old houses). So today I get to brave the attic and put a 2x4 toggle in between the joists (I'm assuming there are joists...) to attach the box to. I also need to replace the night light over the garage, the old one had finally rotted thru inside. Of course there IS no electrical box there, only wires going thru a hole in the wall (gotta love old houses).

The garden work for this week, in addition to the monster rose, is cutting down a tree behind the garage, that is getting out of hand. And our neighbor says the squirrels use it to get onto her roof. Tues. I cut down one of the two forks, next (maybe not today) will be the other fork and then the trunk(~8" diam.). It's probably about 10 yrs old, a mulberry that has been growing unchecked since we moved in.

The last pic is the back of the monster rose. I've already cut out half of it. And a closeup of just how massive and dangerous this beast is.