My second wedding anniversary falls on the much-anticipated presidential election. To do our part, Brandon and I have devised the following plan:
If McCain wins, we get a divorce; if Obama wins, we'll stick it out together for eternity.
Tell all your friends -- if they want to keep a happy, loving couple together in holy matrimony, they'd better vote accordingly.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Something to Say
Haven't been writing in the b-log. Been out of sorts busy for awhile. Lots of weekends out of town -- it's JDavis now, folks! So lots of good hanging out with my far-aways, plus more far-aways coming this weekend. Birthday bash was a great time and pals from Cbus even made the painstaking trek over the hills to get here. Lots of JessM visits, and with Mdonia closin in, these will soon come to an end, so we gotta pack em in.
I wanted to keep a garden journal this sumer, but have pretty much failed/not noticed how much stuff changes in just a very short amount of time. Here's the time lapse: tomatoes, four varieties of peppers, cilantro, basil, cucumbers, oregano all went in the ground some time this spring. Now there's tasty leaves and fruits all over the place, pepper plants bendin to the ground with tasty goodness. Major obstacles have been: a) bunny ate all our basil clean to the ground in one night -- I retaliated with a sweet fence and luckily the plants regenerated -- a miracle! b) i tripped over said fence one day after weeding and did a sweet ninja flip in the air only to land safely in tortoise pose. c) said bunny returns this week to eat two tricky holes through my fence -- i catch him in the act of leafeatery, but he escapes through the secret hatch d) new uberfence is erected around fence 1.
Also, cucumbers have been tough this season -- we have an armored beetle of death that is resistant to pretty much anything. RJP's advice for this scenario started out all wholesome: "Take a coffee can and poke some holes in the top..." [yes! this sounds like a great, old-timey farming trick passed down from my Appalachian farmer roots] ..."and then you pour some Seven in there and nuke the bastards!" [i speak too soon]
With few organic alternatives to turn to for taking down this pest (after we consulted a very knowledgeable org. farmer here in A-town), we're mostly letting the cukes go -- with a few fruits to nibble, I'm ready to sacrifice that portion of our mini-plot for gourd farming. Did I mention Brandon wanted to grow giant pumpkins in our 10x10 earthenpatch? You know, the ones you inject with milk and honey and then take to the county fair. That's not gonna happen - so the assorted mini-gourds will have to do.
I wanted to keep a garden journal this sumer, but have pretty much failed/not noticed how much stuff changes in just a very short amount of time. Here's the time lapse: tomatoes, four varieties of peppers, cilantro, basil, cucumbers, oregano all went in the ground some time this spring. Now there's tasty leaves and fruits all over the place, pepper plants bendin to the ground with tasty goodness. Major obstacles have been: a) bunny ate all our basil clean to the ground in one night -- I retaliated with a sweet fence and luckily the plants regenerated -- a miracle! b) i tripped over said fence one day after weeding and did a sweet ninja flip in the air only to land safely in tortoise pose. c) said bunny returns this week to eat two tricky holes through my fence -- i catch him in the act of leafeatery, but he escapes through the secret hatch d) new uberfence is erected around fence 1.
Also, cucumbers have been tough this season -- we have an armored beetle of death that is resistant to pretty much anything. RJP's advice for this scenario started out all wholesome: "Take a coffee can and poke some holes in the top..." [yes! this sounds like a great, old-timey farming trick passed down from my Appalachian farmer roots] ..."and then you pour some Seven in there and nuke the bastards!" [i speak too soon]
With few organic alternatives to turn to for taking down this pest (after we consulted a very knowledgeable org. farmer here in A-town), we're mostly letting the cukes go -- with a few fruits to nibble, I'm ready to sacrifice that portion of our mini-plot for gourd farming. Did I mention Brandon wanted to grow giant pumpkins in our 10x10 earthenpatch? You know, the ones you inject with milk and honey and then take to the county fair. That's not gonna happen - so the assorted mini-gourds will have to do.
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