That's a second nearly-two-pound harvest of snow peas out of the garden (tastefully blurred in the background) this week! At this rate I'm going to need to find a tasty animal to feed snow peas to, so that I can enjoy them all without becoming a vegetarian.
Continue reading...Just to be clear, here at the beginning, Carolina Chair rocks! As an anniversary present to each other, Marcia and I purchased a few weeks ago a new Crawford sectional from Carolina Chair, after I'd done considerable online research about Made in the USA furniture, and reliable vendors, etc. Marcia worked by phone and email and mailed fabric samples with Cathy Fry and the rest of the team down there to get the right design, etc. Carolina Chair got the furniture built and shipped before we even expected it to be fit into the manufacturing schedule! Then, we got the…
Continue reading...Preparing the living room for a furniture delivery tomorrow means emptying the whole thing out, back to the walls. New rug and pad, etc. But while I'm moving stuff and cleaning stuff, I hear barking, and go to look: Now, I have some work (remote to the office) work to do. Ciao!
Continue reading...Yep, I'm a day late with this. The weekend got away from me, but I did get a lot done. Not a lot in the garden, but the garden's doing fine on it's own right now: As you can almost tell even in the small format, the peas are going wild, as are the potatoes. Everything else is just trying not to get left in the dust. But it's early days for this growing season. The old lawn mower went the way of Fat Albert's car - spitting fuel sideways and back while making a lot of noise. It wasn't…
Continue reading...Moving right along, I managed to take a picture this evening as the clouds started rolling back in. Here's the state of the garden today: The potatoes are coming in nicely, as are all the other plants. The snow peas ... they're in production. I'm pulling a meal's worth out every two days, and they're barely started yet. * * * School is started too, and for grins, the first project in CMIS 485, the capstone course for databases, involves PHP and an Access database. Yeah, Access. Whatever. I've mostly completed the design of the required tables based upon the…
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