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Brian Bilbrey July 16, 2012

From the Garden

Last week, a couple of tomatoes, a few potatoes, and these butternut squash: Yesterday I made first salsa. Five tomatoes, one each habañero, jalapeño, and cerrano pepper, and some cilantro from the garden. A small onion, and half a clove of garlic. Yummy, but a full 2.75 on my 3 point scale of salsa. I could not finish a measly three cups of salsa - I stopped when I noticed that my lips, cheeks, and tongue were all numb with the heat. Yummy, but too darn hot. It was four hours before that wore off... Today, from the garden: Tomatoes,…

Brian Bilbrey July 8, 2012

Tiger lilies blooming

Just wanted to share this with you. There's ALSO a tomato or two headed through orange on their path from green to red, but that's a week or so out. The tiger lilies are doing gangbusters this year, even in all this heat. Tiger lilies - 8 July 2012

Brian Bilbrey June 10, 2012

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Monday: The dog was happy I broke her out of jail (the kennel). Tuesday: Regular work day, then schoolwork - ASP.NET. I am a lucky, lucky guy. Not! Wednesday - Friday: Ditto. Saturday: About 6 hours of work, at the office in the morning, and at home in the evening, doing a large data migration project. Nearly finished my ASP.NET project, but not quite. Today: Work - half hour wrapping up yesterdays work. Shopping. Coffee roasting. Haircut. Yardwork - weeding, taking out the dead-ish snow peas and transplanting peppers from elsewhere in the garden. ASP.NET to completion. Review project against…

Brian Bilbrey May 25, 2012

Did you say Snow Peas?

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.

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…