SOLD!

The Clearydome Clutter and Redundancy Reduction Plan continues apace, with the latest (quick) sale being this cafe set. Put it up for sale on craigslist at lunch, and before dinner it was sold and on the way to a new home.

This was a gift from mom, so hopefully she misses this post, although she'll at least appreciate that it is part of a bigger effort around here....

What, is that a problem or something?

The rain barrel project got a great upgrade this year as we added hoses to them so I could just water wherever I wanted to, having--pictures to follow--set them up on stacks of pavers to give the added edge of gravity.

So this year, instead of unloading the water into buckets and then carrying the buckets to the destination of watering, like a complete idiot, this year I've got the hose thing going on. The rain barrel program made it so I barely used my outside faucet last year, which was kind of cool.

So this year (and there is another story about this faucet**), when I turned the water to the outside faucet on, I could hear it splashing about outside. SO I turned it back off, and went to investigate...and found...that the entire thing came right out of the side of the house.

What, is that a problem or something? So in another chapter of Clearydome Irony, the very same year that I sealed up the area where the faucet came out of...is the same year that it (for the second year in a row...) froze up, but this time enough so that it broke the connection and the entire thing came free.

So, the decision was made to re-locate the faucet so that it was in a fully frost-free environment. Hopefully, this will mean that in the future,

***I won't get a phone call some 10 minutes into the start of the Daytona 24 from my neighbor saying, "there is ice coming out of the side of your house..."

Hopefully.

Rudy Red

As part of our horticulture getting to know you tour, 2009...just a quick intro to Rudy the Red, an oriental Maple in the back yard. Planted in October, 2008 and still with us today.

Rudy was recently deemed enough of a ClearyDome fixture to actually have its tag removed (what are the genders for trees, BTW?), something that has not yet been accomplished for some of the other trees that management has planted(although, leaving the tag on them DOES at least make it that much easier to remember what kind they are...).

Two last ones

Two last shots-one of the reflection as he left, and the other just a bumper shot of the collected affectations.

Gone, Rusty Gone...

Here, in case the concept was not clear enough, is where Rusty WAS. Before being sold. Abstract?

Jibby Says HI

Got an email today while I'm in Connecticut, and the rest of the world is in Indy for the 500...Jibby stopped by to click this pick of his bike in front of the dome. There are slated to be at least four people staying at the Dome this weekend...please enjoy your stay!

Sincerely, Management...

Local Action

Just a link to a site that has listings of the many things that I don't get to do or see while away...

But still cool that they are happening...

To borrow a phrase from another Indianapolis'er, So it goes...

Read about them here...

Update on Project: RustySell

Update is as follows:
Rusty has been sold.
Photos to follow.
Ends.