... the desk-bound half of Meadhouse is standing up and the lawncare half is sitting down.
That's the way it is right now.
August 21, 2011
At the Indoor/Outdoor Café...
... the desk-bound half of Meadhouse is standing up and the lawncare half is sitting down.
That's the way it is right now.
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Shouldn't this be the indoor/outdoor luxury barbecue with finger buffet?
Garden porn.
He's all tired out from that bike ride. I'd be sitting down too.
Here in Santa Monica, the Water Police would fine anyone watering that much concrete.
From the relevant document (pdf at link):
(b) Cleaning. No person shall: (1) Use water to wash, clean or clear any sidewalks, streets, walkways, patios, driveways, alleys or parking areas, whether paved or unpaved, with a hose connected to a domestic water source. Exception: Pressure washing may be permitted in writing by the Director of Public Works with approved equipment and if all wastewater is recovered for recycling, disposed of in the sanitary sewer, or directed to landscaping. In no event shall any water so used be permitted to run off into streets, alleys or storm drains; (2) Wash or clean with water any vehicle, including, but not limited to any automobile, truck, van, bus, motorcycle, boat or trailer, whether motorized or unmotorized, except by use of a hand-held bucket or similar container or a hose equipped with a positive action quick release shutoff valve or nozzle. This subsection shall not apply to any commercial car washing facility which utilizes a recycling system to capture or reuse water. In no event shall any water so used be permitted to run off into streets, alleys or storm drains;
Don't you just love liberal cities?
Ya know, they make these things called sprinklers?
That background noise Meade hears is the sound of heads exploding in Madison due to this.
Does that photo cause resentment in parched, waterless Texas. Yes, it does.
Ya know, they make these things called sprinklers?
Yeah, and hers is named Meade.
It is hot and humid at Citi/Shea today...although the Brewers are a wee bit hotter right now. Let's go Mets!
What's the deal with the spotchy lawn? What's Meade doing about it?
The hostas and -- impatiens? -- are looking quite nice.
The world has gone crazy; EVERYTHING'S BACKWARD!
Wow. The poor guy has to hang out in the yard and play with his hose.
The honeymoon is so over.
chillin'
Looks like the deskbound half of Meadhouse is nice and dry (and nursing some sore muscles, mayhap?) and the lawn care half is getting spritzed on.
PS America's Politico will need to factor in the fact that Little Zero is currently at 35% approval in PA.
Let's see, NY, NJ, PA, he can't lose those three and win.
Now can he?
It looks like Obama's record of protecting the USA from a landfalling hurricane will be coming to an end with Irene.
We've had a couple of pretty unusual weather years in SE Texas. 2 hard freezes each of the last 2 years, then a major drought this year.
As a result we lost a large number of very nice plants here, mostly tropicals that I couldn't protect well enough. A lime tree, a really nice rubber tree, couple pigmy date palms, split leaf philodendron, like that. All mature nice plants I had grown for years. I'm very disappointed.
I gave up trying to keep it alive with the hose around the second half of June. I simply couldn't put enough water on it to keep it all alive.
Should we assume there isn't enough water pressure to reach that window?
Just thinking....what I'd be thinking...
That looks lovely, Ann.
Enjoy your day.
Beware: Robots! Plus, neer shall they meet or some such prattle!
Bugger off, it's Sunday, ya know!
Automatic sprinkles in Ohio.
Meade, that lawn looks like mine did by the time I figured out that the problem was chinch bugs.
I regained control and repaired it all but after 3 years now it takes constant vigilance and they haven't been eradicated yet. This season I've had to spray for them on 4 separate occasions.
A devastating bug for sure.
The next step after about 30 miles that feels any different is 100 miles, on a bike.
Chronic fatigue syndrome?
I wouldn't water any other way.
While standing up is best for your health and posture. Something you get at the touch of a button.
You're back from your road trip, huh?
And, the plants were hungry.
Soon it will be the students who are.
Needs a beer and a wife-beater to be a truly epic experience....just sayin'...
I thought the post title referred to the (apparent) table leg going outside the window.
We just had a short, heavy downpour, which have been few and far between this summer.
Can't see the waistline. I wonder how his waistline is doing!
Mine got bigger again due to a sprained ankle in the spring which meant no hard exercise.
Excuses, excuses, I know.
I thought he was the last man in America without a middle.
It's a wonder to see it!!
He should write a diet and exercise book.
Do you keep him on a diet?
It's incredible.
Kirby - do you have a man crush on Meade?
MMmm, he is looking very handsome and content, these days.
Marriage, of course!
Nice little optical illusion with the desk
I assume that the lawn was designed in a semicircle so that it could all be watered from that one spot.
Nice pic of typical American Sunday.
Speaking of in or out, is Palin going to get in the race or not?
This video certainly looks like a campaign ad, but, as a Wall Street Journal reporter pointed out, at the 1:55 mark, Palin is greeting a couple of young women in Perry t-shirts.
If she endorses Perry, Bachmann gets to go home and it's a 2 man race.
XWL @ 2:11
Just read that ordinance on how to wash your sidewalk and car. Now some people like that, and think the government should tell you how to do such things (under penalty of fines and imprisonment). They will welcome a growing encyclopedia of such controls including what you can eat, wear, buy, read, say, etc.
I hate them. They're evil. And, they are half the electorate. We need a better (more open) education system.
I believe that higher education provides little to no balanced perspective on such things today. I'd like to see a study evaluating how many speakers at university give presentations promoting less government compared to the number promoting a government solution to whatever.
I'm amazed that we have a right wing at all, but I suppose the endless failures of leftist ideology over the last century have been noticed by a few of us, and some of us may just be nostalgic for the quaint ideas that this nation was founded on. We're kind of like flat-earthers, if the earth was actually flat.
Don't tell me you are preparing lesson plans before classes start ! What would Paul Campos say ?
I was in Santa Monica today, visiting my daughter and her husband. Saw a 9/11 truther car with bumper stickers all over it. Love Santa Monica.
Hey, Santa Monica poster XWL, there are too many people and not enough water in Southern California, which sucks its lifeblood of water from Northern California and the Colorado River. It's not about liberalism; it's about conserving a scarce resource. Sheesh.
The indoor/outdoor version of
What are you doing?
Trust me!
What caused the turn?
A call or a knock?
Either way the eyes lit.
@ rh -- so does she jump through the hoop?
Do you douse it with kerosene and throw her toy through it for entertainment for the neighborhood on hot summer evenings?
Is it a rigid dreamcatcher?
Just wondering.
bagoh20/
Utopians never give up, never lose hope...it's like the old saying about a second marriage: "The triumph of hope over experience." Lefty utopians are serial offenders in that regard--each time hopelessly in love with successive bad actors..
Where is his beer?
Thanks for the nice things said.
I let the lawns go dormant while we were out west. Starting to green up nicely now. Fall should look great. No cinch bugs. No worries.
Chuck66..(and me, from a previous comment) ; if you'll notice, M's left hand is conspicuously hidden from view...THIS is the hand with the beer container, most likely aluminum mined in China yet containing beer produced in Winsconsin ( Milwaukee)...I just wish he was wearing A wife-beater made in Indonesia...
Tom,
Sometimes I have man night in my driveway. Pull the grill out. Open up a 24oz can of beer. Light the grill. Light a Swisher Sweet (wood tip, of course), and read the paper. No wife beater T-shirt though. I have to draw the line at some point.
Meade --
How do you let a lawn "go dormant" in the summer when everything is growing?
I ignore mine totally. Is it dormant?
(Well, when the mower works, I'll mow it every couple weeks ...)
It's pretty much all green. Weeds and all. All the time.
JAL wrote: How do you let a lawn "go dormant" in the summer when everything is growing?
It's just like the EPA's plan for our future power usage:
Brown out before going green.
That's right - ignore = dormant. Pretty much.
If only I had more weeds - the lawn would be green all summer. But Mrs. Meade enjoys sitting out there and picking them out one by one. If it's not too hot. Or sunny.
Bless her little weed-picking heart.
Meade said: But Mrs. Meade enjoys sitting out there and picking them out one by one. If it's not too hot. Or sunny.
Good luck with the rhyzomes! :)
Skippy:
which sucks its lifeblood of water from Northern California and the Colorado River.
Do people in Northern California sit around and talk about this every day? I swear it must be on your NPR stations every morning, how much water SoCal is sucking from NorCal. It's a fixation.
I grew up in Michigan and it never would have occurred to me to get hostile about the middle of the state using the water that belongs to the Great Lake coastline areas.
I mean rhizomes (that word is not spelled like it should be).
@MayBee: California h8ers are a dime dozen. They look at California like we look at Sacramento-not-so-secretly hoping for demise, or at least a reality check.
Speaking of interior decoration: look at that visible layer of dust where the moulding meets the wall.
Hey, Skippy, there's this thing called the free market, let's try that for a change.
If government wants to modify behavior, the most effective way is to end subsidies, rather instituting instrusive and byzantine rules and enforcement regimes. Undistorted markets work much better than the carrot/stick approach of subsidizing the water coming through the pipes on the one hand, and then hiring a bunch of busy bodies to poke around folks gardens and driveways on the other. People won't waste expensive water, and if they do, they'll pay for the privilege.
California Reservoirs across the state are above their historic averages, and almost every single one is between 85-95% of capacity, and with a record snowpack this past winter, they're letting millions of gallons flow into the Pacific because they don't have the capacity to capture this summer's melt.
We get hit with onerous regulations during droughts, yet these regulations remain in force when the rains come, funny how that works. Again, let the price fluctuate based on demand and availability. Call me crazy, but I believe markets work better at resource allocation than bureaucrats.
Water is a vital resource, and it's horribly mismanaged in the state of California, but micromanaging people's behavior with a ridiculous set of haphazardly enforced rules isn't the solution.
For tonight's cafe entertainment, the moon-walker returns by popular demand!
@ rh -- so does she jump through the hoop?
Active loop antenna.
Ahh so.
Do people in Northern California sit around and talk about this every day? I swear it must be on your NPR stations every morning, how much water SoCal is sucking from NorCal. It's a fixation.
Not every day, but pretty often. Especially since the people in Southern California and Middle California (which includes San Francisco which is NOT NOT NOT NOT in Northern California) constantly make new rules and regulations to further strangle us and our economy for their own pleasure and convenience.
We don't listen to NPR much either. Too left wing.
State of Jefferson!
Meade, the human sprinkler system. I thought you people would have an automatic sprinkler system put in by now.
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