Some fella was tailgating us on 101S pretty fiercely.  I instructed The Blond to open the sun roof and toss M&Ms out the opening.  I don't know if they struck the fella's car, but we were laughing pretty hard when he finally passed us, shaking his cell phone in his fist.  I wish we'd had ice cubes instead ( Read more... )

A box.  A couple of sifter ideas.  Some are heavy duty.  I like the water tank one.  Cat litter sifters.  More heavy duty, but some good advice: Don't sift wet soil.  An article with instructions on how to make a soil sifting box.    Sid the soil sifter.  (Clever.)

So, in a surfeit of work, I shifted 16 cubic feet of soil on Saturday night while everyone was partying.  I dug a 4’ by 4’ hole, and then I sifted it all back in.  The result was a nice, soft, loosely packed soil.  That took about 3 hours.  On Sunday at twilight, I laid out the grid and used a small 1 1/2” bowl to make indentations in the right ( Read more... )

It's the first week of January, and the garden is doing great.  Those few nights of frost we had at the end of December? I thumb my nose at you.  I have frost resistant Bloomsdale spinach! I have about 20 spinach plants, and I'd say 5 of them are doing pretty well.  The remaining 15 are still sort of shrubbing along with a few leaves and staying ( Read more... )

So I planted a couple rows of spinach and lettuce in the new garden.  So far, after 4 days, I have two varieties of weeds growing, which is thrilling. 

So, in a news report last night, they broke a story on something which is interesting but kind of silly.  See, the 11-99 Foundation is a charitable group that takes donations for the families of slain police officers in the California Highway Patrol.  Worthy cause? Sure.   And if you donate  money, you get a license plate frame that says you're a ( Read more... )

(Picture of Obama to one side)

"Drive like a jerk and cut me off?

Of course I'll vote for the candidate on your bumper sticker."

"Vote bumper sticker.
Don't disenfranchise my car."

Not too shabby.  That was one long flick, though.  

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/religion.htm

So, prove this isn't a religion.

And, since people are being used as dupes, who benefits?  Clearly, someone is gaining a great deal of money in this.  (It's just as bad as the oil companies.)