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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!

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The Word is the Bird

Yesterday afternoon, while standing on the back deck, Ray observed that the curse of the petunias is continuing to plague us.  A while back, we bought two hanging baskets of petunias to hang at either end of the deck.  One gets morning sun, one gets afternoon.  The curse is that we can not seem to [...]

The Pitfalls of Southern Gardening

Another story involving the creepy-crawlies.

If you live in The South, you’ll probably see where this story is going before I even start telling it. If you don’t, this is why you’re glad you don’t live in The South.

My parents stopped by on Saturday morning to pick up the remainder of the stuff that they [...]

Same old, same old

I’ve been feeling uninspired lately, like my life is stuck in a bit of a rut. To some degree, it is — it’s late spring and for the first year since 2002, I’m not gearing up for some massive summer project that is taking up my time and energy. I’m trying not to [...]

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 [...]

I think my basil plant is gay

I think that my basil plant is gay. It’s not that he’s been lurking about on gayplants.com or anything like that (not that I know of, anyway).

I bought the plant at the grocery store about six weeks ago. It was one of those hydroponic plants that they sell in plastic, with the roots [...]