Garden Greens & Tapeworms

Produce at Robinsby Acres! Despite the clay soil... if everything goes as planned the watermelon should be ready for Halloween...

At Robinsby Acres we have lots of robins (seriously!). One of them left us this nice little present - a tapeworm! Note the pre-downpour photo and post downpour photo and the the "after I poked it with a stick" photo. (No it didn't move)

The Big Dig

Well i've finally found something that i'm good at... BREAKING STUFF!  The garage was taken down without major incident.  I'm sure that whomever originally built the garage was from my grandfather's generation as was evident by the excessive use of nails (approx. 1 nail per 1.5 inches).

Goodbye rat poop!

Platypus

What was really interesting was that we discovered that the garage was built on top of an ancient alien starship!  Who knew that Earth was once ruled by alien overlords?  I suspect that the platypus was the result one of their many genetic experiments.  Michael Bay, the hack director who ruined the Transformer franchise being another.

Right now you should be humming along to the music from Raiders of the Lost Ark... no not the Indiana Jones theme you idiot... the music when Indy was in the map room using the staff/amulet to show the location of the Well of Souls where the Ark of the Covenant was found.

The above photos is what led Robinsby Acres to become a temporary archaeological dig site.  It was here we discovered the roof of the alien vessel.  However the aliens had obviously booby trapped the ship as when we tried to enter, we experienced some torrential rains and our land became a swimming pool... perhaps in an attempt at creating breeding grounds for the platypus?

We live Part Deux

(ok, so this is the same as the first but something was wonky with the layout.)

It has been a really long time since our last post. A lot has happened since then...like nuclear war.

When the first missiles came down we thought it was an early April Fools Day prank. Which seemed quite odd as it was October??? Who launched them know one knows...or really cared as the radiation mutated half of our population into freaks with an extra nostril. It became an all out war between the normal nosed and the wretchedly pitiful three holed noses. Note to our alien readers: humans normally have two nostrils.

As you can probably tell due to the bias of this author the two nostril humans were victorious, and out from the ashes of a gruelling three month nuclear winter, Robinsby Acres searched for a new location to settle. We didn't even have to look very hard as there were only two structures left standing.

This was the first option, but we passed because what kind of schmuck settles in a structure built on the left side of the property???? So we marched on. (We found out later that the Sega Dude moved in here.)

After another day's journey we were able to acquire a new base of operations in the western lands of Scarboroughshire. As we were moving in we discovered that the architect who designed the place insulated the walls with rat fecal matter. Rat poo and I don't mix so we began renovations immediately!

The Sega Dude pictured above (turns out he lives next door) can be seen here helping to remove a wall.

Previous occupants were environmentally conscious and recycled a police sign as part of the flooring. They cleverly turned it upside down though to maintain a uniform floor colour scheme. I'm posing here with the sign thinking "you're busted dude!" but I'm sure it was an old sign...

And here we are at present...all caught up. All the rat dung has been removed I personally handpicked each turd and disposed of it) but renovations are still incomplete. You might notice the tomato plants. We aren't sure how they arrived here as they just appeared on morning...perhaps another early April Fools Day joke?

We'll keep you updated on our progress. Until then, Robinsby Acres would like to thank our many GENEROUS donors in helping us to make our world greener.

It has been F-O-R-E-V-E-R (yes, it is a Sandlot reference)

Yep, it has definitely been awhile. July sucked but August was great! Newfoundland rocks... if you'll pardon the pun! Sadly the indoor garden is no more. Some jalapenos were harvested, along with grape tomatoes, but the mites proved to be a mighty opponent and the remainders had to be destroyed :(

Here is the first injury of the year. My fault, really. A filing cabinet beside your work desk really should not be left open - even one inch. View the open wound in all of its glory. It has been two days and it is still leaking. I only wish I had gotten a photo when it was dripping blood and grabbing the attention it deserves. I used hand sanitizer to disinfect and 1.25 hours later a kind person at work shared her first aid kit with me. Hopefully I come out of this better for the experience, although the scar will likely last a lifetime. Pantyhose it is.

The plants they are a-bloomin'

Wow. It has definitely been awhile. End of school. Beginning of more school. Yuck. The morning glories have grown as have some of the wildflowers. Flowers on the pepper and tomato plants but since we don't have an electric toothbrush I doubt that they will pollinate :( That's ok because we got 46 - yes 46 - beans from our 3 bean plants and they were mighty tasty! Some tomato plants have found their way to the real outdoors hopefully to actually produce some fruit (the pressure is on!) Went with a friend on a run to the Brickworks today and saw a very small turtle - diametre approximately 2 inches! Check out the new poll on the right.

Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat... 

(I'm sure you all know the rest :)

From the "Wildflowers" collection.

The morning glories. So far there has been no interference with the tv signal. 

Strangely enough it has improved...

This is our dead crayfish. We are not terribly sad to see him go. 

He had a $25,000 bounty on his head as he was responsible for numerous deaths. 

Were the pellets not enough??????

Can you spot the turtle??? It's TINY. 

Thanks to my running buddy and her iphone :)

Fan of the Month

Todays post is to give credit to the only person whom has commented on our blog.  This individual has also shown outstanding dedication to the success of this site by checking often for updates, voting in our polls, and even inviting us to his house for food and drink.  The rest of you are a bunch of bastards (pronounced bay - steads).  Therefore, I declare June's fan of the month... Hein99!!  Congratulations, and thanks for your support!

                                                          Fan of the Month:  Hein99

Belly buttons

Lint-Free Button

First of all: check out our simple new poll: Innie or outtie? This poll was inspired by something that we heard on tv the other day: there has been a study to determine why/how people get bellybutton lint. We heard of it on Breakfast Television so it must be legit but of course at this moment we can't find reference to the study they were mentioning... but here is a similar one. Anyways, we have both been witness to this phenomena (I laughed until I cried). Not from our own buttons of course (yes, you know who you are). I originally thought that this would only result from poor hygiene habits, however, have since been set straight. Belly buttons come in all shapes and sizes and depths (I swear I saw blue/green mould growing there once. Not in mine, of course.), however, we are all most familiar with the "innie" or "outtie". Unless you made your "outtie" an "innie" (yes, you know who you are!) we are all born with one or the other (temporary outties due to pregnancy DO NOT count). Yes, we are rambling. Take the survey and off with you!