We have an oak in front of the house that is surrounded by hard packed dirt. To top it off, it receives the brunt of dirt and rocks that wash down from the street and the house at the top of the hill. We’ve had a project to fix the issue for some time now. Here’s the before picture:
Stan from Southern Homes and Landscaping drew out a plan for nothing and did the work for a very reasonable price. Here’s some “after” pictures:
Due to the curse of Rhonda’s green thumb, the front flower beds were just about hiding the house. She trimmed most everything back so that it looks okay for now. We’ll cut it back pretty good next spring.
Brian and Peggy adopted two Yorkies last week, so we went to see them Friday night. The little girl (Bella) posed on my stomach…
…and the little boy (Buzz) fell asleep on my shoe while we were eating.
I doubt there are any college students whatsoever reading this, but in case some parents of college students are, here’s a good deal for Windows users.
This is a closed circuit post to Mac users only…
I noticed on Saturday morning that my Macbook Pro was unusually slow. I ran Activity Monitor to see what was running. A process called “find” was running and the parent was listed as “SH”. That’s pretty close to SSH, the program you use to open a terminal session on a different computer. No one should be SSHed into my computer, so I got a little bit worried.
I googled it and found the answer here. It was only Spotlight updating its index of files. As proof, I opened Console and saw the following under /var/log:
The timestamp was around the time I noticed the slowdown. Mystery solved.
(okay, all my posts can’t be gems.)
I don’t think anyone else in my family will be switching to AT&T. Cellular South’s unlimited plan is the only one that makes sense given these minutes used last month:
| rhonda | 1,880 |
| beth | 1,062 + 129 roaming |
| brad | 2,550! |