I shall not tell a lie...

We stayed out way too late last night.  We were at a local pub where two of My Dearest's co-workers were performing in their band Judo Chop.  They covered songs from the 80s and were rocking out.  They did a great job and by the end of the night they had a good sized crowd of people who were clearly entertained.

I should add that the chainsaw bandits returned yesterday.  When I got home late in the afternoon I found a great pile of wood out front of the neighbor's house.  We're thinking about grabbing some of it for our fireplace!  Although that tree was crawling with lots of buggies, so I don't know. 

(Updated, now with live footage of tinkering)

So Mr. Man is outside on the back porch tinkering. 

He has the parts, the smarts and is dangerous with power tools.  (Ask him how his thumb is after it got personal with the table saw.)

So what is it going to be?  An automatic water shut off for our soaker hose in the garden because someone, and I'm not naming names here, keeps forgetting that she turned on the thing and only remembers hours later to turn it off. 

Yes, I know they sell them online, but he's very adamant about making his own.  I'm sure everybody has an extra water valve (the green thing in the photo) because their brand new washing machines are poo, right?  How about an extra metal case?  Tubing?  Computer cable?  Hose pieces?  Come on. 

So while he's out on the back porch tinkering around I decided to see how things were in Grapeville.  I love embedding video -- see if you can spot the Blue Jay.

While playing in amongst the grapes, I spotted these:

I had left the tags on the vines after planting them.  Luckily the string holding them on didn't get bound into the vines and hurt them in anyway.

The best thing is that now I know what kind I have and it seems that the Concord grapes are actually on the left and the Niagra Green grapes are on the right.

Sorry this is so picture heavy -- I should actually be cleaning the house, but this is lots more fun.

Comments

[jackie]

Yup. I find a lot of ways to avoid house cleaning. Procrastination is so much fun!
And concords make great jelly! It is really easy once you get past the fear of screwing up jelly. Save a few pounds for your self and follow the instructions on the Certo pack. You will be rolling in wonderful grape jelly all winter. A great thing if you LIKE grape jelly. We do and so I have been hoarding our last few jars seeing as the friend with the grape vine sold her house in December and my great grape bounty has now dried up. Unless.....I can make friends with the new owner.

[Chris]

So is the blue jay a blur across the top of the screen when you pan over the veggie garden? And is that a faint snicker I hear from you on the video? I think I gotta figure out how to embed video. I'd love to get some of CC on my blog.