Just accidentally picked the first Butternut out of the compost/volunteer garden by turning it a little. It’s mostly ripe, a slight pale green blush to one side still, but the stem was starting to dry around the joint. It weights 11.5 lbs ( Read more... )

Final reading on the rain gauge ( Read more... )

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When having satellite dish installed? Check line of view from INSIDE the house.

Fuckwit.

Storm impending, rumbling slowly from the southwest. We were out under the maple in the kiddie pool (well, the kids were and I was madly rushing around the garden breaking up hardpan around thirsty plants ( Read more... )

...the veggies eaten so far, I mean.

That last post? The list of things eaten thus far?

By the critters. They’re devouring my garden.

If only I could say the same about my FAMILY.

I’m still spending way too much on fresh veggies that aren’t so fresh.

Pissing me off.

I think I’ve been poisoned. Sitting at the computer last night, trying to get this g.d. literary mag finished, and I suddenly couldn’t breathe properly, lungs rejecting the air with gasping, choking coughs. It’s still happening. I think I maybe slept for an hour last night. So bloody hot and whatever extra was in the air made it very difficult to ( Read more... )

Credit cards suck ass. We have one and it’s always maxed out. Low limit, but always pushed to the top of that limit. My blog account is on it, and Chris only paid the minimum this month, and now my blog is suspended. Jeeeze. This is silly, because there’s certainly enough $ in the account to pay it down a couple hundred so my bloody $8.95 doesn’t ( Read more... )

Six inches of snow on Saturday, ice storm, preceeded by several inches of steady rain, wind the likes of which I’ve experienced once or twice, maybe=20 hours without power, purchase of generator for more $$$ than can stand to think about. I wanted my rototiller. But I’ll barter with the neighbor. He’s got a huge tractor with a 6’ wide tiller on the ( Read more... )

I just wanted to tell you themowingdevil, that Chris has been counting jar after jar of coins with Tyler and his friend, and Lila. Great conversations about wartime coin mints, and family histories have taken place over the course of the night, dinner had, and just now Chris got up and put in your winter solstice cd, and every head in the house began to bop ( Read more... )