The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 21, 2012

AND a dollar Short

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…

Brian Bilbrey May 15, 2012

Garden Progress

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…

Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2012

Another Sunday

My day started in New Jersey. Seriously. I spent Thursday evening through this morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey attending PICC'12. What a great conference. Sponsored by LOPSA, and hosted by the New Jersey chapter of LOPSA, it was two superb days of new friends, meeting in meatspace folks I only knew electronically, good food, and some awesome technical training classes. My major focus this time around was on configuration management, security, and IPv6. I can't recommend this conference highly enough. Only a three hour drive for me, it's also right close to the train and near to Newark airport.

Brian Bilbrey May 6, 2012

Best Two Out of Three

One more day of weekend to go - I'm taking Monday off work, for a variety of reasons, some of which will be explained later. But Saturday and Sunday I was in the yard, planting: Both in front and in back. That process is pretty much done. I didn't get the watering system fettled for the season yet, and that was my original goal ... but the rest of the plants was an important part, too. So, tomorrow for that, I think. Pictures tomorrow, too. I also have to replace the kitchen sink faucet, since it gave up the ghost…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2012

Garden and War

Yesterday, I mowed the yards, and little else, since rain was inbound. We got another 2/10", which is all to the good - perhaps a total of 1.5" over the last week. That'd be a wonderful regular event. Today, I planted all the seedlings in the garden. It doesn't look like much right now - 28 or so tiny tomato seedlings spread out through two beds, zucchini and butternut squash, cucumbers, and half-inch tall jalapeño plants. None of the cerrano peppers germinated. I've got spares of some of the tomatoes bedded for now where the cold frame was, in case…