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Brian Bilbrey July 28, 2019

28 July 2019

As far as I can tell, June and July weren't as wet as last year, but we've had at least a bit of rain each week. Additionally, for most of the last week, we had mornings that were a lot more like mid-September than late July - temps in the morning in the low 60's instead of the mid 70's, and highs in the 80's instead of high 90's. I will note that, botanically, we got nearly four weeks out of our tiger lily bloom this year, instead of the usual two-ish weeks. The picture below is from about the…

Brian Bilbrey May 20, 2019

20 May 2019

There are pictures, but I haven't downloaded them yet. The weekend was full of yardwork. Saturday was a full front/back mowing and some other front yard tasks. Sunday both Marcia and I worked on fully preparing two of the raised beds for pepper, tomato, and zucchini plants. This year, we're lining the beds with weed block fabric to attempt to make the fight a bit fairer to us. In and around the yardwork, we had a game night over at Linda and Mike's place, where much laughter accompanied a session of Cards Against Humanity. Sunday night was 80's music Cabaret…

Brian Bilbrey August 15, 2018

15 August 2018

Busy times - I managed a fair bit of yardwork this last weekend, and we wrapped with Sunday at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company's August Cabaret Night, featuring Christine Asero. What a talented, lovely lady. From show tunes to her own country songs, she put on a hell of a show. Marcia got herself a pasta accessory for our Kitchen Aid stand mixer. She put it to good use yesterday: Marcia made the fettuccine pasta, we got the sauce out of a jar, adding sauteed chicken. A tomato from the garden, shared, and a serrano chili for me. Yum! Note to…

Brian Bilbrey August 1, 2018

1 August 2018

We still have a few of the Tiger Lily blooms extant in the front yard beds, which is unusual. They're often utterly gone by the third week in June. I'll put it down to a generally cooler summer here (so far), and a couple of weeks of rain. All flowers generally get along with more water and less heat. Note that I was watering them weekly during the 4 weeks of little-to-no rain from late June through late July. Here they are from a couple of weeks ago: Tiger Lilies in bloom

Brian Bilbrey May 20, 2018

20 May 2018

Howdy. A full work week, followed by chores and theatre on Saturday, and mowing a wet, wet, tall set of lawns today. We had just one rainy stretch - it lasted from Saturday the 12th until this morning. All in, according to my still-poorly-sited rain gauge, we got just under 5" of rain in that period of time. Not too shabby. The abbreviated garden hasn't drowned or died from lack of direct sunlight, either ... yet. I've been working my way through some Python (programming language) training, and I've reached once again the point where I spend more time fighting…