Dragging the route around to try and get better directions, at one point it suggested riding on Central Expressway. “Bicycling directions are in beta.” Yeah, no kidding. They do suggest using some of the bike trails in the area, like the KT, which is nice. I wonder if there is any chance we could get the official Dallas Bike Plan routes into their system.

It also suggested an interesting alternative for getting from the KT to the Infomart. That’s one of the trouble spots on my current route so I may have to give this one a try.

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Via Cyclelicious.

I’m thinking of trying out BookMooch with anything left over.

In the last month I have bought a Samsung Hard drive, Samsung Bluetooth Headset, Samsung TV and if I were to buy a digital camera or cell phone there is a good chance it would be a Samsung. It is not that I’m a Samsung fan boy who seeks out Samsung products, they just seem to be making the things I want to buy.

I’m sorry if that sounded too much like a commercial. My point was supposed to be about investing. The problem is that Samsung is not, as far as I can tell, sold on any US stock markets.

On Sunday, I started pulling up all the old tomato plants and collecting the undamaged fruit. We pretty much abandoned the garden in August but the tomatoes just kept on doing their own thing. Particularly the Gold Currant cherry tomatoes which showed an amazing resilience to the heat and drought. The red cherry tomatoes made their comeback after it cooled off so that’s where most of the green ones came from.

We are thinking about pickling the green ones. Maybe some of the others too?

Also, here is this week’s harvest. A few weeks ago, we applied some Garret Juice plus garlic and orange oil - this seems to have reduced our squash bug problem at least a little bit.

This monster pokeweed grows wild between the shed and alley way. There seems to be disagreement over whether it is edible or poisonous but we haven’t tried it ourselves.