June 2008 Archives

My horoscope for today:

There’s a financial surprise coming. It could go either way. Pay attention.

I found a dime on the floor, does that count? A dime is ten times as lucky as a penny, right?

Some silly person, er, I mean appreciated and enthusiastic garden helper, planted chard all over our garden path. The path was full of them (and other stuff) so you couldn’t get through to the stuff in the middle. It was seriously reducing the accessibility of our fresh, ripe tomatoes and nobody gets between me and my tomatoes!

So, anyone want some free chard? Didn’t a certain 12-year old say all he wants for his birthday this week is some “green”s?

Firefox 3 is being released today. I’ve been using the pre-release versions for a little while now and it is certainly the greatest web browser ever. Probably the best new feature is the smarter location bar, usually referred to as the AwesomeBar. It is not quite as life changing as tabs, but it’s close. Actually it is more like the built-in search box except instead of searching all of the internet, it searches just the pages you have bookmarked or recently visited.

A lot of these new features are thanks to the hard work that has been going on behind the scenes like integrating SQLite (AwesomeBar and Places) and Cairo (full page zoom). It is nice to see all of that paying off (not that I had anything to do with it).

So, go download it today, or read about more of the enhancements.

There is nothing quite like eating tomatoes in the garden, straight from the vine. I think I’d be happy to have a garden of nothing but tomatoes (and maybe some sugar snap peas). If you have to bring it inside, it is too much trouble.

The Thai Basil has been looking particularly nice lately although we haven’t tried actually eating any yet.

The most productive plants in our garden so far have been the green beans and the dill so it was pretty clear that Dilly Beans would be in our future. This was our first time doing any kind of canning or pickling but I think it turned out ok.

We had a hard time getting the water back up to the boil after putting in the jars so we are a little worried that the beans will be over-cooked. Most of the beans were tough and over-ripe, though, so maybe it will balance out. Now we just have to wait!

I got kinda tired of taking the same photo every week and the garden isn’t growing quite as dramatically now. So, instead I will do photos of featured plants or what is being harvested. Here is a final slideshow of the spring garden growing over the last 10 weeks.