Posts from May 2009

A neighbor of mine has encouraged me to take my rabbit waste to their yard for composting. I have my own pile now just for his litter, hay and droppings. Supposed to be great fertilizer. I'm really excited about this as his waste was the majority of the trash. I would almost fill a 30 gallon trash bag up every week. Hopefully it will decompose quickly. His litter is reclaimed celulose which is biodegradable.

I would like to do my kitchen scraps but I think I'm just going to stick with his litter for now. I don't want to attract bugs or rodents as people live close together.

It has been 2.5 months since I last posted about my fitness. I think I see some results.

This is my lamb of god statue that was left behind by the bishop who owned my old house on Lexington. I rescued him as he would have been thrown away.



Red-winged blackbird at the foot of Ferry. @mike and I went the other day for a walk on the pier.



Heron



This is the tree in front of my house. It sucks the flowers don't stay on for long because they really make the tree.



Forrest Lawn Cemetery.



@terry driving us around.



It was fun to capture @matthew taking some of his beautiful photographs as seen on his journal here.






Nasty old goose.

















This is where he is taking my favorite picture from his photo shoot.

Increasingly, Florida is having major problems with sink holes. These are mainly caused because so much water is being taken out of the water tables. They say it is kind of like winning the lottery, particularly in current markets, because the insurance companies pay out so much money for them.

This just recently happened a few miles north of my mother in Spring Hill Florida.

On Monday I took a half day at work and went straight from Roswell to South Buffalo and Lackawana. I felt so free and wonderful to get out of work on such a beautiful day and just go wherever I wanted. I think I'll skip most of the commentary but I stopped at Erie County Botanical Gardens, the Basilica, Tift Nature Preserve, Times Beach Nature Preserve and unfortunately the US Coast Guard. That is when I realized I no longer could get to downtown and had to back track to Ohio street at which time I was able to get a friend to pick me up at the General Mills factory. I'm not sure how many miles I went that day but I definitely covered a lot of ground and saw quite a lot of Buffalo. You see so much more when you are on a bike compared to being in a car. There were times actually that the wildlife was just a bit too close. A couple of times I went running from the deer and the geese. If wild animals start to approach me I always get freaked out. Maybe they just wanted some food or maybe they wanted to hoove or peck me to death...you never know.






















































Does anyone know what this building is? It is near the Water Authority.

I am really sad about Bea Arthur passing. It is so strange because as viewers we look at the Golden Girls as always being in their golden years. Rue McClanahan was in a series recently but I didn't know anything about Bea so I didn't even know she was sick.


When I was younger I wasn't allowed to watch the Golden Girls. I did anyways. I remember watching them once in the reflection of something so that my parents wouldn't see me watching the TV.







photo by Alan Light

For weeks I have been hearing the faint sound of a radio playing and it was starting to drive me crazy. Now I realize that the sound is coming from my computer speakers. I hear ads and sometimes music and turning the volume off doesn't make it stop.

What is wrong with them are they possessed?

Almost forgot to mention to listen to my user sound. Micachu Lips, We Have Band) remix.

So I tried to write this before I downloaded Lazarus like @tinypliny suggested. I naviagated away from the page and I lost everything I wrote. Now that should never happen with the special little add on for Firefox.

Back to the point. Buffalo was recently listed by Forbes as being number five of top cities within the US where it is hardest to get by. My first feeling was of pride that I am able to make it in the fifth hardest place to get by. My next thought was about number 4, Tampa, who not too long ago experienced tremendous growth and prosperity and has now completely bottomed out. Finally, I thought, WOW! we have tremendous stability and resilience here.

Buffalo is number 6 on top downsized US cities according to Forbes. This is clearly no surprise- as we all know how much of Buffalo is boarded up. They say positively about Buffalo:

Buffalo, for example, saw a 0.8% increase in housing value over the last year. Sure, the median home price is just $106,200, but home values have decreased by 30% in some parts of the country over that same period...

"When I moved to Buffalo, I carried the same misconceptions that most do. What I found was jaw dropping" she says of the city's architecture and cultural offerings. "Efforts to market the region are so important."....

We certainly do have a lot to market. Buffalo is a great city and I think it will remain to be long into the future.

I had some words to say but I lost them all when I navigated away from estrip forgetting to save first. Oh well.



I love a clean tub. Soap scum build up feel so gross on the feet.


Almost forgot this pic of @mike who is away in Toronto. He is so cute.