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Brian Bilbrey

June weather visits for a bit

When I go out into the back garden after work, it's a good time to let Lexi roam back there for a bit. We're concerned that she'll discover and widen a rabbit gap, and make her great escape. So she doesn't get unmonitored play time in the back yard. I suppose I should do something about that one of these days. Not today, but maybe in the fall. Meantime, the garden is becoming productive. Frankly, those potatoes look yummy. Red potatoes have always been more visually appealing, but fresh out of the ground is a world of difference compared to…

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Brian Bilbrey

Garden rising

Yeah, yeah, the lawn is brown and grotty - that's what comes of 3+ weeks of no rain. I've done about everything I can do to bring the rain: Today I watered in front for about 5 hours, and I washed my car. In a little bit I'll be barbequeing, which might just tip the scales in our favor. The garden, though, is loving the hot sunny weather. The fastest-growing tomatoes are about walnut size now, and I've got some 6" zucchini on those vines. The onions are doing well, and some of the peppers are starting to become fecund,…

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Brian Bilbrey

Hey! Potatoes!

Yep, first out of the garden, just a few weeks after going into the ground, I've got fresh red new potatoes. These were literally hanging out at the surface of the soil - I spotted them when doing a bit of supplementary watering. And joy of joys, it appears we might get a small smattering of rain tonight - I hear the thunder bearing down on us. The radar confirms that rain is nearly here ... but often it seems to split north and south, and miss us altogether. We haven't had any rain to speak of in perhaps three…

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Brian Bilbrey

More Zoë

Zoë Keating, last night. Two items of interest: First, Wil Wheaton introduced me to Zoë's music with this blog post. Second, listen to Zoë talk about her music and play in Musicians@Google: WNYC's Radiolab + Zoë Keating. In the latter, Zoë describes how the version of each composition gets selected for an album, and how that relates to what gets played live. When she loops and layers music so intricately, there are infinite variations for every work. I could recognize the bones of nearly every piece she played last night, but deeply appreciated the nuance and freshness of each piece.

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