Not us. We have to welcome spring with something more … elaborate.
Not visible: the three guys with shovels and wrenches deep in the hole.
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Not us. We have to welcome spring with something more … elaborate.
Not visible: the three guys with shovels and wrenches deep in the hole.
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I’m right there with you, PZ. I’m trying to prepare to replace all the 50 year old galvanized pipe in my castle, and nervous as heck. Fortunately, I have a plumber who had done excellent work for me previously. BTW, his last name is Nguyen, so he is undoubtedly from a family of Vietnamese refugees that would have been sneeringly called “boat people” back in the ’70s. Here in San Jose, the Vietnamese really revitalized our practically abandoned downtown, and have brought a lot of energy to the whole city. Had Trump been President back then, I hate to think of how they would have been treated (not that the actual treatment they received was a shining example of American hospitality) and what our city would have missed out on.
A sign that it’s time to move on from spiders? Vivat formicae!
It is Great to see Minnesota is still there. House spider bit me last summer—Love to see all is well in the Science Department, despite the fact, for some reason, the MAGA majority hates science! We just keep on rockin’ and keepin’ on!!
Those piles of dirt should make it easy to hide the goods for your Easter egg hunt.
@moarscienceplz
Fully agree. I’m an immigrant from the UK working in high-tech in San Jose. Many years ago I made the connection between the folks I’m working with and the reports of the “boat people” reaching Hong Kong that we we heard about in the British news. They were children around the same age as me when their families fled – now they’re friends and colleagues.
(Regarding galvanized pipes: we think we got our the last such pipes just in time when we did the kitchen in our 1896-built, redwood-framed house. A joint in the pipework to the upper floor that was removed had what looked like a tiny lava-tube where a very small amount of water was leaking and creating a shell of iron-oxide. In our case our regular plumber has been Russian.)
Touching up your dream home, Dr. Myers? Gee, with that fat tenured salary of yours, you’ve put this off way too long. Just kidding, hope things will be okay.
While there just happens to be a deep hole available in the area, are there any truly unbearable Republican neighbours you’d like disappeared? Think of them as tree compost.
I can’t tell from the picture, but I’m going to say that there is sand mixed in with the black loam. Sand is an iffy thing in a hole.
It looks moist. That’s good.
I have looked at this post a few times today and this was the first time I read it as “garden genomes”.
“Coulda bin the wine, mighta bin rum”
Ahh, a dirty job. I know the host is a magat [sic], but I still enjoy the show. If I were there, I would be watching exactly how they do it, so I could learn how that kind of work gets done.
Does that make me weird?
Well it should help keep your mind off politics, for a least a small part of the day.
Most people — ok, just any people with taste — would take that scene as an opportunity to bury the garden gnomes. Quick! Before they refill the hole!