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The Bees & The Tree

ericmoon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:23:46 +0000

The Bees and the Tree sounds like it could be the title of a children’s book. However, it’s just another entry in the growing list of mini-dramas since moving to the new house last year. It all started way back in aught-nine… When we bought the house, there was a large, dead tree in the [...]

Insalata Caprese Overload – Tomatoes and Basil (and Honey!) overload

ericmoon — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:18:18 +0000

The spring harvest season has come and gone at the Moon family gardens, Southern division. Due to a little diligence and a little luck (multiple inches of rain in June and July in Austin??), we managed to have a decent bounty from the garden. Our four tomato plants grew quickly – I always got a [...]

Ironman Cozumel – just the numbers, please

ericmoon — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:33:48 +0000

Exciting line charts! Tracking exciting numbers! Click through to read more! Or I will keep using exclamation points!

April 22nd Garden Update

ericmoon — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:46:37 +0000

The latest garden update! Chock full of photos (ok, four of them, I think that's considered a chock in some countries).

April 4th Garden Update

ericmoon — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:29:55 +0000

Garden update from April 4th – a bit late in coming, the next one will be quicker. We had a cold night or two (almost freezing, but not quite) that browned quite a few of the lemon basil leaves, but the tomato plants seem to be doing quite well. The poor pepper plant seems stuck [...]

First Planting at Moon Family Farms, Southern Div.

ericmoon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:05:12 +0000

After talking about it every spring for the past ten years, it’s finally happened! Yes, despite our horrible climate and soil to grow anything other than weeds and cactus, we now have a teeny tiny vegetable garden. I wish I could say we have been planning this for some time by working the soil, building [...]

Remote Control Lighting

ericmoon — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:15:09 +0000

We moved earlier this year. In many, many ways, it was a big step up from the old house. However, one decidedly step down was going from a house with a 2 car garage to a house with a very narrow carport. Besides the obvious differences, there was a major annoyance. The carport didn’t have [...]

Taking it too far? DIY Light Box

ericmoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:38:45 +0000

I’ll blame it on the weather. With a December cold front blowing in a couple of days ago, and me being ultra-productive nowadays (it’s all relative, don’t forget), I decided to get all artsy-craftsy while staying inside and warm. I’ve had a couple if posts I want to do for this site, but they all [...]

Random Photo from the Archives – Lightning!

ericmoon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:08:12 +0000

Just going through the photos in the hard drive (download Picasa3 if you want an easy time of it). Found this cool shot I took in Cuernavaca, Mexico in July of 2009. Took me about 20 minutes to get it (and I played around with it for a few minutes in Picasa after putting it [...]

Wild Kingdom Still Going Strong

ericmoon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:28:25 +0000

I wasn’t sure if the dead tree in the backyard still was home to our furry, yet extremely ugly, family of ‘possums, but I caught this guy (or gal – you can inspect the photo, as for me, I’ll pass) heading out for a night on the town a couple of nights ago. Hopefully they [...]