Another day of working in the yard; but my guestimate now is that my 8 tons of river rock and decomposed granite is down to about 3 tons, maybe a bit less. So, here’s some of what I did today (compare this to the previous post)… And this is the path as it looks through [...]
Archive for March, 2010
More Gravel…
Posted in Sonoran Desert Gardening, tagged Agave Bloom, cactus pruner, Sonoran Desert Gardening on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No Time For Fiddle Tunes or Art Quilts :(
Posted in Sonoran Desert Gardening, tagged raised beds, swales, Tucson garden on March 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
While it’s a bit frustrating to have no time for fabric art or fiddle tunes, I am happy at least to be making improvements to my yard….so when it’s hot this summer and I’m inside under the AC sewing or playing my fiddle, I can look out to a lovely yard with fewer weeds. My [...]
Port Kirwan Come Home Year Is Getting Closer…
Posted in Newfoundland, Port Kirwan Come Home Year, tagged Port Kirwan Come Home Year on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I got a lovely email the other day from Adrian Fennelly; he saw my post on the Port Kirwan Come Home Year member’s page, and he had this to say: “I was born and raised in Port Kirwan and now live in Oshawa, Ontario. You mentioned in your intro. that you play the Irish fiddle. [...]
Irish Music at O’Mally’s in Tucson: an Aris Debut
Posted in Irish Music, tagged Aris, O'Mallys Tucson, St. Patrick's Day Tucson 2010, Tucson Irish Music on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! I should be out celebrating, but I have to be at work in the morning; so it’s been an early evening, limited to just a couple pints of (too cold) Guinness. Here’s a photo of our 2 hour gig at O’Malley’s; it seems like anyone who plays–or claims to play–Irish music [...]
Sabino Canyon Hike With the Parents
Posted in Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona Hiking, tagged Sabino Canyon, Sonoran Desert, Tucson Area Hiking on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s sadly been a few years since I tied on my trusty Danner boots and went for a long hike with some elevation gain. A few bouts of hip bursitis in the past few years had me very demoralized when it came to hiking. But, belly dance seems to have really helped my hip and [...]
Paddy Carty and Paddy Fahey Recording Now a Free Download
Posted in Irish Fiddle Tunes, Irish Music, tagged Irish Fiddle on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My email fiddle-pal Jake sent me the following link to a recently uploaded out-of-print record from 1969 of Paddy Fahey and Paddy Carty, Traditional Irish Music from Galway. It’s already on my Ipod and I love it. The link is to Ceol Alainn, a great blog with all this great old Irish traditional music; I [...]
My Gravel Doom
Posted in Sonoran Desert Gardening, tagged Tucson garden on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, here it is: all 8 tons. And that’s just half of what I’m going to need. I started shoveling the gray river-rock (from the Salt River) into the swale on the east side of my house; I put weed cloth underneath (that’s the black stuff), it’s porous but helps keep weeds out: Anything green [...]
Art Quilt Withdrawl
Posted in Art Quilts, Sonoran Desert Gardening, tagged art quilt design, Sonoran Desert, Tucson garden on March 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Remember this? Yeah, I do too. I haven’t worked on it for 5 weeks! Getting my new windows installed was part of the delay. Now I’m preoccupied about my yard, which is large and mostly not landscaped; it’s a lot of dirt for weeds and dust. Since it’s rained so much, it’s easier than ever [...]
Another Trip to Catalina State Park
Posted in Uncategorized on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We got another half inch of rain yesterday, and it’s quite soggy in Tucson; but the day before that, I had a brief hike up at Catalina State Park with Bearbear and my pal India. Check out the saguaros and the water! It looks shallow, but in parts it was knee deep–this, 6 days since [...]
Dog Park Reunion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tucson dogs, Wildcat Dog Park on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday Bearbear and I invited some of our pals from the Wildcat Dog Park over to play; we also invited their humans along, too. Jazz is the only one who didn’t make it into the photos; sorry, Jazz, you were being to crafty. Next play-date! Here’s Bearbear and Kiwi: Here’s Bearbear making sure Maya knows [...]
