6,000 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables a year...
On 1/5th of an acre in Pasadena.

http://www.pathtofreedom.com/about/urbanhomestead.shtml

I think I need to look more in depth at some of their ideas.  I'd like to produce a ton of food a year, at least. 

Skeeterbaby and The Blonde have been sick.  Both have a upper respiratory infection.  The baby is pretty good-natured about it, though ( Read more... )

I miss playing with people.  Have fiddle and mando, will travel, but not far.  Anyone in Pasadena want to play folk/rock/pop/rap/country/old timey/bluegrass?

My pickup should be arriving for the zouk soon... must get pre-amp, amp, all that jazz.  Yay, electrified instrumentation.

The artichoke is blooming, a pretty purple flower.  I just don't have the heart to eat it.  The plant would be far larger if I put it in a bigger pot ( Read more... )

So, I got the 1 gig video card, and 2 gigs of ram, and installed everything.  It all ran fine.  I put on the game with the toughest graphics and ratcheted everything up to the highest level, and it had no problems with any of it.  I guess I'll hold on to the 256 mb ATI graphics card, though it's a good mid-level card (PCI 16 ( Read more... )

I purchased a FPS, Rainbox Six Vegas 2 (I guess weekend with bernie 1 wasn't good enough).  I like the gameplay, and there's some great stuff in the game ( Read more... )

I ordered a computer part from NewEgg.com.  They are based in Southern California, in Whittier, so imagine my surprise when I ordered the part thingie and I'm told it'll be all of three days shipping, and get here Monday.

No big deal.  So I check the UPS tracking information:
EDISON, NJ, US
That's the starting point. Okay, it was drop shipped from ( Read more... )

Every single seed of lavender seems to have germinated, and only in 4 days ( Read more... )

Car is finally paid off as of two days ago.

It ain't worth $23,500 anymore, though.

Spinach should always be easy ( Read more... )