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Welcome to my Web site. My name is Chris, and I’ll be your host. I live in Austin, Texas, with my partner, Ray, and our child dog, Mocha. You can read more about me, learn 100 random things about me, and if you’re wondering what the heck a khowaga is, click here. Feel free to browse, read, and leave comments!

Moment of Pride

I haven’t posted in a couple of days because I took some time off from work to finish a project in the yard that we inadvertently started last weekend.

We have a raised flowerbed that runs the width of the back yard that has, over the years of complete neglect on my part, turned into a scrubland (and the dog’s sunning bed).

Between last Sunday, and both yesterday and today, I have managed to turn this:

Garden before

into this:

After

Close up of the larger section:


Corner section

Indulge me for a second as I introduce a couple of the new residents (my gay basil plant remains inside — we’ve already established that he doesn’t like the out-of-doors). Here’s a columbine flower:

Columbine flower

And here’s one that is, for obvious reasons, called a shrimp plant:

Shrimp Plant

I’ll get back to gloom and doom later. Right now my back hurts and I have scrapes on every finger, and I just can’t help going out to stare at the new garden. It’s so pretty …

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