May 17, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged lawn, mowing
I was mowing the lawn today when the mower started making clanging noises. I stopped the engine and turned it on its side to check for blockages. Not finding any, I righted it, started it up again, and this time a white cloud billowed out of the exhaust. I inspected the engine from above and found oil pouring out of the air intake filter.
I think this is bad.
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May 12, 2008
· Filed under Gardening · Tagged indoors, lawn, outdoors, tomatoes, upside-down, weeds
Indoors
Due to the unseasonably cold spring so far, I have opted to keep my upside-down tomato planters inside until I am confident the sprouts have taken firm root. Out of 7 hanging planters, six of them had at least one sprout survive the first week. I probably broke the root of the sprouts that dying.
I have plenty of starts to spare, so I re-planted the dead sprouts and put some more lights up for all of the plants.
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