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links for 2007-04-26

• Backyard Wetland | Backyard Conservation | Features | NRCS
  Great article on bog gardens, or backyard wetlands -- like the one we're building in the low corner of our yard.
  (tags: ponds wetlands raingardens gardening)
• Backyard Pond | Backyard Conservation | Features | NRCS
  Great overview of pond ecology/construction.
  (tags: ponds gardening watergarden)

Birthday Snippet (to the tune of "Honeycomb")

links for 2007-04-25

• Hort on the Internet: Water Gardens
  NC State resources related to Water Gardens
  (tags: watergarden garden ponds)

links for 2007-04-24

• Pondsense.com
  Pond materials store with links to the "Internet Pond Society"
  (tags: ponds)
• Wishingline DS | 416.888.3084
  (tags: design expressionengine webdesign)
• Complete Pond Assortments
  Company packages assortments of pond plants for instant water gardens...
  (tags: ponds watergarden)

links for 2007-04-20

• Veerle's blog 2.0 - About myself
  (tags: design blog)
• Website Design and Web Development with Measurable Results - Expression Engine Development and Design - Design by Reese
  (tags: design expressionengine)

"I'm two!!!"

The doc thinks she'll be six feet tall. Her birthday present is the sandbox I am trying to finish by Saturday. It's a bigun'. I'm having 2,700 lbs. of sand delivered to the house on Friday (in 50lb. bags). That should be quick to move, right?

Happy Bur-day

My daughter will be two years old tomorrow. She's a strong, active and curious child with curls that become more pronounced on rainy days. Last night she and her older sister spent close to an hour playing with a toad we found in a puddle, shrieking and chasing it and pulling it around the yard in a yellow wagon. She is excited by birthdays in general and often sings "Happy Birthday"-- perhaps her second favorite tune these days, after the a-b-c song.

Last week while dining at our usual Mexican restaurant, one of the waiters stopped as he always does to say hello to Lula in Spanish. She responds to this like most children her age, with a certain amount of shyness--uncertain what to reply despite my urging her to say hello in kind. As he walked away however, a thought came to her and she leaned out over the table: "I yuv you man!" she said.

"When he comes back," I suggested, "you can say, 'Hello, Señor!'" Just then he emerged from the kitchen again at our table, smiling and waiving at Lula.

"E-yo, Seymour!" she said brightly, then pronounced her version of the word 'fish' and pointed at the wall behind him, which indeed featured a wooden fish.  He looked puzzled.

links for 2007-04-14

• Keeping Up With the Web's New Lingo
  With words being created, put to use, and accepted in the blink of an eye, they're becoming a challenge to the reference world's gatekeepers
  (tags: peter words lingo slang)

Taking after her mother

Last night as I played with my daughter Lula, who is almost two years old, on the floor of our den, she pointed to one torn arm of the sofa, turned to me and said, "Papa, what's that?"

This is, I should add, probably her most oft-uttered phrase, followed closely by "What's that, Papa?"

"That's a spot where the kitties scratched the sofa and tore it," I explained.

Lula turned back to the sofa arm to scrutinize it more closely and, to clarify the point, said, "That where kitties tore sofa dammit."

She walked over to the other arm of the sofa, similarly frayed, pointed and added, "Kittie there tore sofa dammit too."

links for 2007-04-10

• Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association
  (tags: local durham)