fifi’s grafitti

We’re getting insulated! The carpenters pulled off an upper row of clapboards around the house and today the cellulose will be blown in to fill the walls and put something between us and the outer air at last. The insulators have donned their hazmat suits, hardhats, and face masks and are prepping their machinery as I type. Almost makes me look forward to winter because the house will be warm this year! yaaay! It also means we’re getting closer to the end of the daily banging, whirr of machinery, and general loss of privacy that goes with having your house renovated.

aaah, tiny Grasshopper, use your back legs to jump out of the situation!

I never got into the “Kung Fu” tv series, and I always wondered why people thought it was cool that David Carradine was “grasshopper”. I associate grasshoppers with monstrous jaws capable of defoliating fields of food or flowers, like this tiny (1/4 inch long) guy has done to the buttercup in the photo. The spearmint, roses, and other flowers in the garden show similar signs of chewing. Just leave my okra alone!