Like I said...Terrible Plumber!

So I washed the beets and turned on the garbage disposal to listen to it's fine grinding and munching sound then turned it off after 30 seconds or so and then...what's that?! Oh shit! A loud water drianing sound that continued and continued! Oh no...oh yes...something has given up the ghost UNDER the sink in a manner deciededly SIMILAR (not exactly though) the fine BP oil disaster now in it's 80th day in a Gulf near you. Up close the sound might be similar, might is the key word. And what is spilling is not nearly so oily. Just water, a LOT of water from the sinks above has found it's way out of the pipe connection where it dives under the house towards the street. Shit, shit, shit. (Merde, merde, merde in French), so I open the cupboard to see water gushing forth and soon I drag the rugs from other areas to this one and grab a towel from the stock of old towels kept for just this purpose (she knows!) and start to contain the spill...like the booms do in the Gulf of Mexico. I turn the water back on above and note the leak's location. Then I find the connection has come completely apart, rubber to plastic is slippery and it has failed due to gravity doing it's work when the pipe is full of water. So I reconnect it and the one aboe it that has broken loose as well, dry out the cabinet bottom, turn the water on for an inspection and deem it "fixed". I need to do SOMETHING though to fasten the pipe bnetter underneigh so it isn't pulling down on the connection itself. More work awaits.

The 10 X 10 graden of eden is doing it's best to bury us in zuchinni, there's always zuchinni...about 5 - 7 medium sized ones every day. The tiny orange and yellow tomatoes are at it too, delivering many every day as well. Eggplants are growing and there are 2 hanging eggplant fruits that need a few more days to mature before I make Pasta Norma for Kelly, one of her favorite dishes. The basil forest is producing nice amounts of top leaves and a few flowers in the heat as well. My next great find will be eating sized tomatoes from the big tomatoe plants, that'll be a few days coming but there are lots hanging on in the sunshine.

The World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain is tomorrow and I WANT Spain to destroy the giants fron the Netherlands. The english octopus says that Spain is going to win and octopuses arte never wrong about such things. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFvrAdyFUJ8

All about not much...

Up and at the computer this morning to see how the BP oil spew is doing. SOS...same ol' shit! It could keep this up until the entire resorvoir is emptied. BP blew it big time, nobody else's fault but theirs. Sure regulation could have been sticter but oil wells do this trick now and again and kill their workers after passing every environmental, engineering and psychological evaluation known to man and we keep on drilling. Gotta have that oil else we are fresh out of an economy. We are just starting to think out of the oil drum...solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear...all deliver the goods when properly designed and exploited. But, speaking practicality now, oil is needed to run those devices, deliver them and maintain them too. There's no way out. And Mr. OBAMA culpable...what?! Oh please. He didn't drill the well, he didn't create the regulation system that allowed them to operate in the manner in which they did, it's all blame and bullshit. Blame OPEC if you want too, blame God for making the floor of the Gulf so damned difficult to drill in, blame yourself for driving that gas guzzler. You and I share any blame in this mess for our selfish habits. The Prez has enough on his plate.

Our lil' farm is putting out veggies at the rate of a few a day thanks to the sunny weather. Zuchinni are plentiful and chock full of flavor too. The tiny tomatoes all golden in color are sweet and delicious. The eggplant are hanging there growing about an inch a day and the bell peppers are doing really well too. No weeds either as the black ground cloth is holding them down nicely.

Hung two new screen doors in the back to help filter out the mosquitoes and flies that are so prevenent this time of year. We bought 2 of the 19.95 screendoors from Lowes in Vacaville, cheap as can be...must be Chinese! Anyway I added 4 metal corner braces for demensuional strength as well as a lip to the left side of the right-side door so it would hold both doors shut. They look really nice.

Tonight I've cooked a pork roast in a pepper sauce braise for carnitas and black beans and spanish rice. Invited daughter dearest Audrey to help dispose of the lot.

Tomorrow we'll go to the Swamphouse and work on the Master bedroom, painting and cleaning etc. Rental coming up!