Planted so far:

Two citrus trees (one lime and another something I can't pronounce);

An avocado tree;

A dwarf banana plant;

Three agave plants;

A bunch of flowering stuff (bougainvillea, &tc.);

Four more agave plants, some basil, and a Traveler's Palm are in planters or pots and will be re-planted when they're further along.

Awesome turnout at my pick-up (from scratch!) promotion party tonight! Everybody from the Ambassador on down showed up, including the second-ranking British diplomat and some of our local neighbors I was able to reach out to through Facebook ( Read more... )

to see my name on a promotion list.

I watched Pres. Bush's speech yesterday, as well as former Sen. Thompson's: both decent speeches.

Tonight I watched Gov. Palin's speech.

Never in my life have I ever found a vice presidential candidate to be in any way politically exciting.

I'm excited about this v.p. candidate.

John Ringo has a new book out, which Madam Atomic brought back to me as loot from her recent sojourn in the U.S ( Read more... )

And I even came back ( Read more... )

Another tropical storm on the way. It's been pouring intermittently since last night. The good news is that TIKI (tm) lights will stay lit in a torrential downpour ( Read more... )

Very busy this month. I have a staffing gap until the first week in August having had one of my (two) officers transfer out as scheduled. I planned to cover his job (visas) and let the other still-new officer continue to cover american citizen stuff. What I wasn't counting on was a double homicide which has kept him out of the office for most of ( Read more... )

http://eireane.livejournal.com/46593.html?view=53761#t53761

A couple of weekends ago a tropical storm from the Pacific, called Alma, crossed overland across the continental divide and became an Atlantic storm named Arthur ( Read more... )