I just wanted to show you a picture of my ongoing fire escape project. It involves making planters from Styrofoam and concrete. On the left is the fountain I made (my first project). The piece I'm working on now is a bird feeder as the plants, water, etc...have been attracting little tweety birds to my concrete domain.




This is a pretty crappy picture of my aquascape....not much to see here . My problem is, I live in a remote area & do not have access to the aquatic plants that I think I need to round out the aquascape. I want some grasses! But I'm not willing to pay the exorbitant shipping charges .
Also, creating an underworld environment takes time. An aquarium environment is a delicate balance of organisms. Right now I have what is considered a minor snail infestation, but the snails are keeping the plants and rocks clean of algae so that's OK. I'd like to have some pretty fish in my tank but I want the plant life to be thriving first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquascaping is a fun and challenging hobby.

Want & Need, The Razors Edge

(Sorry, no photo. I googled razors edge images, & all that popped up were references to Pitbulls, the band ACDC, & some weird hate group.)

I've been blogging since November 2005 . I was married when I started & now I'm not. I was self employed when I started & now I work for some one else.
In 2006 it seemed I was a disciplined blogger. It seemed I could write thoughtfully and copiously about anything... books I was reading, my hobbies, my family, etc, etc.... Blogging & the internet were my focus.
In 2007- 09 my love of blogging took a different turn and I ramped it to a more emotional level.
I had my share of internet lovers...& diddled around with cybersex.y pictures, etc...
In my blogging career, I've started up 6 blogs, 3 anonymous blogs for reasons known only to myself and 3 legit blogs. This is the only blog I have active at the moment.
It's not really noticeable, but lately I trimmed the dead wood from my blogger buddy links that were no longer applicable to my blogging experience.

I could do more trimming but some non-applicable links I hang on to for nostalgia.
(Or maybe... some times I just get stuck on something & can't let it go, like beating a dead horse or sucking on a dry teat. )
In 2011 what I do now is live in the real world more then the blog world. Frankly, I have to support myself.

I'm reading a book by Sidney Poitier "Life Beyond Measure, Letters To My Great Grand Daughter", in which he gives his grand daughter advice and reflects on his own life and the choices he made, good and bad.
I'm not that far into the book yet but one topic so far has given me pause to think :
Poitier writes about living a life caught between want & need & how he lived like that for many years, starting in his impoverished childhood, & when he was 16 years old living alone and washing dishes in N.Y.C. & into his acting career. He talked about living on the razor's edge of both of those choices & the many times he could have fallen into the abyss, but was saved by fate or luck.
What he was stressing was striking the right balance between the two. One thing I've never been able to do very successfully. I think I still live on the razor's edge of want & need.
How about you?