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The End is Nigh!
I don’t know what I was thinking when I signed up for 3 online courses this summer. My advisor let me in on a trick that seems completely acceptable to everyone which is sign up in the first session for … Continue reading
Someone plugged you in, And sadly they clipped your wings
Yesterday morning the better-half and I were making breakfast and I noticed Jim had brought in an animal. He had a bird and it wasn’t quite dead. The two humans just gawked and then decided that perhaps we should pick … Continue reading
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Happy Things
Last night we made a shrimp dish and a rice dish from the Rick Bayless book Mexican Everyday (I could do that). We ramped up the chipotle peppers because we were living dangerously and I think next time we’ll settle … Continue reading
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Stuck?
Yeah, I’m throwing this post up because it’s been so long. There’s just not much going on and at the same time so much is going on. Work is still a pain in the neck. Latest developments are that the … Continue reading
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Death Tolls Here
As if the weeks of 95-105 degree days and months of no rain weren’t bad enough, these bugs have destroyed all of our squash, zucchini and cucumber plants. They are working on the cantaloupe as I type this. I’m sure … Continue reading
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Overrun
Garden overrun with squash and zucchini. Tomatoes and eggplant coming in. A handful of pickling cucumbers, lame-o beans finally have blooms and there are okra, cantaloupe and watermelons starting up. I couldn’t even get to the blackberries because it is … Continue reading
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Sometimes Love Comes Funny
Months ago we bought some milky spore to put on the yard to kill Japanese beetle larvae dead. We’ve been putting down spore for about a year now and apparently you have to do it for something like 2 times … Continue reading
On the menu
Salad-a mix of our own greens, some romaine and some spinach and young garlic from Victory Farms, carrots, celery, grape tomatoes, roasted pecans and shaved parmesan. Baked sweet potatoes. Foil grilled shrimp and scallops with thyme from our garden, butter, … Continue reading
Aunt Annie
The better-half had a great aunt named Aunt Annie. She was a single lady and carried a cane in her later days. She liked to play cards and would call people Chap. She was quite a character and had a … Continue reading
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Soon, we’ll munch.
Last year we thought the fig tree had died and decided if it didn’t show signs of life by the time graduation rolled around we would dig it up and think of something else to plant. The tree did survive … Continue reading
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