We had a street sale today. If we could have sold the answer to what this plant is, we might have actually made some money. 🙂
This plant is called a Red Hot Poker, Poker Plant, or Torch Lily. It’s pretty impressive and definitely stands out in the garden. Best yet, it’s a perennial, so it just keeps coming back every year.
Actually, we did profit slightly from the street sale. We sold $9 worth of junk and spent $3 at other people’s houses, so we’re up $6! Woo Hoo!
I’ve never had a music video before, and this is probably as close as I’ll ever get. Big thanks to Chris Byrd for posting his video from the Apriori art show held at the Terminal in early 2006, using a piece I wrote as background music. That piece was the Bergomask Dance, from a suite…
Our Christmas season is always very busy and this year was no exception. We spent time with family or friends almost every day since December 23rd. Interestingly though, I feel much more relaxed and rejuvinated than after most vacations, and I can’t really pinpoint what made this one different. Maybe it’s the fact that I…
Apparently, there is no shortage of Skyway reuse ideas out there today. BuffaloGeek sets us up for an interview on this next week: While it’s a much better concept than Tielman Park, again, what problems does it solve? It’s an incredibly inefficient way to get to the outer harbor by foot, and it doesn’t solve…
One of the advantages of being a homeowner is that certain home improvement projects are sales tax free, if they fit the New York State’s guidelines of being a “Capital Improvement”. The tricky part can be determining what exactly qualifies as a capital improvement. The NYS Department of Taxation lays it out like this: A…
Had a minor glitch with the blog that prevented some IE users from seeing some of the newly created pages, like Ariella’s Gift List. Turns out the .htaccess file needed a manual update. Let me know if you see anything else out of whack.
For my birthday this year we decided to take a drive down to Watkins Glen. The trip ended up being three parks – we stopped at Stony Brook for lunch on the way down, then to Watkins Glen, then at Letchworth on the way back. We dodged a lot of rain, but stayed dry and…