Saturday, August 07, 2010

Cool August Nights...

Not HOT ones like everyone says are so typical here. Sorry...we are in the midst of a very cool summer season with our daily temps in the mid-low 80s. That's a problem too as it is the height of the tomatoe season for both the big industrial tomatoe farming enterprises and my own 10 foot square micro-farm. I picked tomatoes today that had been on the bloody plants for weeks and weeks, had reached their typical 3" size and stayed green for the whole time. Not good. They will NOT be the most flavorful and delicious of fruit that is for sure. Yes...Tomatoes are a FRUIT, like an apple is a fruit...and eggplant, zuchinni etc. all come from a flowery start. Others like beets, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, are root vegies. Then there are legumes, beans, lentils etc. and who knows what I haven't mentioned, too many to name. Anyway...the cold summer has done it's best at retarding the ripening if not the growth of every crop about the area, mine included, however small.

The Swamphouse south 40 is still being cut down, not daily as my #@$$#$#$! back can't seem to deal well with the weight of the saplings when they fall and must be cut by hand and placed in a stack. Awful dirty, hot and itchy work as I've said before but it has got to be done before we rent the place sometime soon I hope.

Kelly's trusty (well...almost) Prius has developed a strange problem...the drivers side door will not lock or unlock either from the button inside the door or her key fob. ?????. Mysterious. I checked fuses and came up empty handed. It locks from the key only or the lever on the inside handle but nothing automatic. Might be the actuator I suppose. Expensive to fix.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Audrey in Love

Change is upon us. Audrey is in love...head over heels as it is when you first meet a soulmate thriller guy. He has her, full on...HAS her heart, soul and being. She is NOT who she was a few weeks ago. No...she has fallen BIG TIME and it's thrilling and familiar to watch. She deserves IT. She wants IT. She needs it. A deep and dear friend, a person to give to, to take from, to exchange with, to give the day and night meaning. She found him.

The thicket at the Swamphouse is being attacked, not daily as I thought I would do...it turns out my back couldn't do what my mind wanted it to do. So I work along, today but maybe not tomorrow, the next day the same. Slowly it is uncoverred like it hasn't been in years. A real thicket it is too with not a few accidentally copst pear trees forming the most of it. The ancient cactus that I planted there shortly after it was ground to pieces in 1994 when the City of Suisun took down the old WW2 era apartments and IT. It has grown in stature over the years and is a character with cactus pears too! I love the thing though Kelly does not and our friend Marsha who knows everything about plants ever known...says it will spread and take over the place...it has been in my backyard for 16 years and just grown UP and UP and out but no new cactus has sprouted. Maybe one day but not up til today. I pruned away a couple of arms as they had grown overly much, so be it.

I tried installing a 500GB Sata HD in this machine and had no easy time of it, took days of retries and reinstalls of Windows 7 til I backed off yesterday and put the thing on Ollie the scientific machine as extra storage. Oh well. See you later.