The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey July 26, 2015

Tiring

It was a good week. I pulled out another five gallons of mostly tomatoes on Tuesday, and made a pot of red sauce with most of them. Others I took to work and assorted other Friends of Tomatoes. Then there was Saturday... Saturday started off with Marcia having decided that since she had terrible luck fishing at Centennial Lake, nearby, we should BOTH go, early on a Saturday. Early, in my case, meant waking up not before seven - it was a long week. So, out of the house before eight, and at the water's edge casting by about 0830.

Brian Bilbrey July 20, 2015

Summer's Back

After a couple of unusually cool weeks to start out July, we're into Summer normal for the DC 'burbs: 90's for heat and humidity. Yesterday, silly me, I did yardwork anyway. That broke me, but I did get in another 5 gallon bucket of (mostly) tomatoes: I think that's going to end up being a red sauce. Time will tell. * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey July 12, 2015

Midsummer fun

Five Gallons of Veggies That's the big fun: I pulled a five gallon bucket of veggies out of the garden today. But ... that's the only fun. Busy bloody weekend is over, thankfully. Fixed a leaking fridge water feed, which now looks like this: A ball valve and a copper feed pipe is much better than a vampire tap, a needle valve, and a plastic feed line. I got the leak stopped and water back on in the house by about 8:30 Friday evening. The water to the fridge was restored by Saturday mid-morning. Thereafter, yard work on both days.

Brian Bilbrey July 5, 2015

In the Dark

Well. Dark-ish, sort of. Metaphorically. We still had electricity. But no phone, no Internet (well, except the cell phones), no TV. Our FiOS connection went down on Friday, and stayed down until a tech got here today and replaced some of the equipment. I used the enforced ludditic interlude to do some work in the woodshop, including sanding and finishing: Sanding and some finish applied on Friday (when it rained). More finish applied with intermediate sanding on Saturday (when it rained), and final assembly today (when it didn't rain, but I was waiting for a FiOS tech). The final product…

Brian Bilbrey June 29, 2015

More Rain

Well, not today, exactly. Nor yesterday, as such. But we had a pretty good storm roll through on Saturday. Sunday ... (yes, yes, the day I forgot to post on, again. Sigh.) Sunday, I was talking to my folks, and realized that since we returned home from California in the waning days of May, some 31 days past, we've had 11.7 inches of rain. Our weather has been positively tropical. I'm looking for mahogany and teak trees to start growing before my very eyes! We got a few more tomatoes out of the garden, about twenty HUGE FREAKING cucumbers, and…