3rd In A Series Stuff You'll Find In Our Backyard

First - Here's the backyard - From the backyard click any Picture for a larger view There are two oak trees, and as well as 1/2 dozen pine trees back here. That's one of the oaks on the left in the picture. Can you imagine trying to reason with hurricane season with all this stuff? Well we did. And it was a severe pain in the you know whatsis! Last year when Rita was a threat, we cleared all of this that we possibly could. Including the patio cover. We tried not to leave anything that would have potentially become a missile in high winds. We have a lot of interesting things (Well, I like to think so, anyway) back here, most of them of the organic type stuff. Come from living with two people that take care of plants for a living. Me, I'm just an old computer jock they keep around for the heavy crap and to mow the grass. This summer, because of all the rain, we have had to mow lots! Haven't been able to do it every week either because it's been muddy or under water (blub!) at times. Not too deep. Just enough to keep us from getting out there and splashing around in the muddy water while pushing a lawn mower. Bl-e-e-a-h! But our boxer likes it! Lets Have a Look Around - Shall We? First and foremost - Absolutely NO Hunting! We're serious. Unless you are hunting weeds, of course! The Queen and The Roomate planted these in these hangers using a coconut liner filled with potting soil. That green looks like it would glow in the dark doesn't it? It's actually just the bright sunlight behind me. Mind they do look pretty neon=like don't they? The trees in the background are in the neighbors yard. Here we have our Passion Vine. It sits in a 25 gallon tub near the fence. These flowers bloom for one day and then they die. Fortunately, the plant produces a lot of blooms! They smell fine too! If you ever smelled one, you would know why they are called the Passion vine. Va-Voom! *Breaks into song*, "I'm lookin' over a four leaf clover!" We got these at a water garden store we frequent sometimes. These seem to be GIANT, purple clover. Probably a radioactive, mutant strain. *Grins* But they are beautiful. and purple. Really PURPLE. We also have six sets (or so) of windchimes. And other assorted hangie-downie thingies! Well, That's it for now. Gotta get some work done! Oh here are the other two in case you are interested. In My Backyard This Morning Post From My Garden

Cable Company _ NO Customer Service!!!

Yesterday I spent my entire morning dealing with the friggin' Cable Company. Believe me, I HAVE GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO!!! I am so fed up with dealing with ineffectual Customer Service people. 5 phone calls (starting Friday evening) and a visit to the local service center (to pick up a "new to me" cable modem), a cancelled service call, and the best they can do is "intermitent" HS internet service... I finally asked to speak with a supervisor....After 5 MORE minutes on hold, the supervisor come on the line...No wait...It's... EFFING VOICE MAIL!!! I'd had it. I blew a friggin' gasket all over this woman's voice mail! Hung up and called them back because the new time set up (monday between 10.00 and noon was NOT Acceptable. I mean, I don't know how it is in your house, but everybody in mine WORKS for a living! Page thru their freakin' phone system to get back to the service dept. Spend 10 MORE minutes on hold. Get yet another technician on the phone. Get red in the face while he explains their policy on service calls... As I was about to explode all over him. The friggin' supervisor beeps in on my other line. Also at about that time the internet connection suddenly blooms. Holy crap! It's a connection! Quick!! Super tries yet again, to explain service policy... "Save it Maria - Just explain to me WHY I've had 19 service calls to my house in the last quarter!! And why you can't seem to figure out what the Heck is wrong here!" No good giving them an utlimatum - they are the only game in town! And while I was typing this message, My connection went down AGAIN! ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Changes

Made some changes here.Went looking for some three column templates last week...Found some nice ones at Thur's Templates. Thur Broeders runs several blogs and sites, one of which he has a pile of nice templates on. He lives in Rotterdam, NL - GO ORANGE! Thanx, Thur!To summarize the changes: Installed new template Added My Links Tweaked some pictures so they would work with the new template Added flickr.com and trainboard.com (not sure about this one, yet) graphic links Changed left side content titlebars from something and something else to messages and my other spaces Added flickr badges one on the upper right - one in the footer Added NScale webring badge to the footer Added email link Added the picture to my header and changed the font color and sizing. Added some coding to make it look the way I want it to look. Been practicing my html skills can you tell?Feel free to leave me comments on the new look!

Now That's Weird Department

just saw the strangest thing down on the Houston streets.A homeless guy pushing a shopping cart.Now in and of itself that's not really weird...But get this...The guy was wearing a full two piece business suit. Looked pretty natty too!Now that's Weird!