One fun thing I did do with some success last month was to try canning veggies for the first time. Since my green beans are also growing all over the place in my back yard, I was ableto collect enough to try canning a few ( Read more... )

It occured to be that I will be going back to the grind when IUPUI starts up again on August 23rd. The wierd thing is that it seemed much sooner than before... but after going back to check the last couple of years, it wasn't.

35 is too young to be getting wrinkley and forgetful! ;p

Yeah.. saw this in my FB feed for Wired, and found it too funny.

A different kind of Lambo love.Hee ( Read more... )

Holding down the fort again at work this week. It's actually be rather managable so far, without getting too many gninormous rush orders from marketing that they needed yesterday. That's been the Law of Murphey around here when one of us goes on vacation, I'm telling yah! LJ also seems to be back on the ok list too.. must have been some ( Read more... )

I need to take a picture of this thing... it's the biggest plant in my garden. I had staked it to go up a 5.5 foot tall bamboo teepee, thinking that would suffice. Nope! It has bolted up that structure over that last two weeks and now it's reaching a few inches higher above it. Duuuuude ( Read more... )

Welcome to the what shall be known as the midwestern monsoon season. How many years does this pattern occur before it becomes a trend? (totally kidding ( Read more... )

Apparently, cutworms and slugs just LOVE marigolds. Even though mst other bugs and critters do not. I hardly have anything left of my little plants now. *has bought some impatients and vinca to replace them* (on second thought, the marigolds could also stand in as bait to keep these bad bugs away from the veggies too ( Read more... )

I no longer can access LiveJournal at work... so if you don't get an immediate response from me, that is why. ^^;

Oh.. I guess I better write something here, rather than lurking and/or surfing all around the nets in my usual braindead state. WHat can I say, I've become addicted to the TV all over again. We got that feature where you can watch select Netflix videos right on the TV, rather than only on the little computer monitor. Guess what movies Josh has ( Read more... )

Classes are officially over. Let summer begin! :D ( Read more... )