Let us start off the weekend with no agenda. Let’s do nothing and then reflect on how much we got done… Holy crap but it all seems to pile up at once, don’t it? Pete was commenting earlier in the week about being burnt out and it being “only Tuesday” — and (in short) I […]
About 3-4 hours of weeding so far this week and it still seems like they’re growing faster than we can pull them out. But we’re literally starting to see some fruits for our labor.
Second round of fertilizer for the tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots. After the weeding. Still lots of weeding to do. (Tomorrow evening…) We’ll see what happens with the fertilizer; if we’re getting good results without it, we may not need to continue after this first bag is spent. We lost a zucchini plant; that brings us […]
Dr. Amy C. Chess, PhD in the Psychological and Brain Science. Nice one, babe. Green robes and all.
Hot damn. Beyond the Beyond has been a treasure trove this week. Via B^2: “Bradbury denies free speech message in Fahrenheit 451” — Doctorow writes: Fahrenheit 451 was seminal for me, the book that turned me into a believer in free speech, a cause I’ve devoted my life to. It’s pretty heart-breaking to hear Bradbury […]
Rest, ol’ pal.
Got an early start, headed back over to the garden and took advantage of the overcast-but-not-precipitating sky to finish up some more weeding and get the rest of round one of the straw mulch down. All the rain from yesterday left the soil in quite a damp state. This was (of course) fine by us […]
Garden run today. After dropping off my brother at the bus station, A. & I headed over to Gardner’s to pick up two bales of straw to use as mulch. We had been by the garden site last night to show Mark and we noticed a ton of weeds. So first things first, we needed […]
Between yesterday and today we got everything else into the ground that we were planning on. There were a couple of last minute changes (we added beets, switched from bush beans to celery, and then from celery to zucchini) but otherwise, everything went according to plan. Sort of. We’re biting the bullet and starting our […]
Before. During: After. UPDATE: Almost forgot… If you’ve got an extra 10 inches and the mood strikes you to go short, please consider donating it to LocksOfLove.org — the donations go to make wigs for kids with cancer. (And the whole set is up on Flickr, of course.)