So we’re bailing out the banks that made bad decisions and got themselves into trouble, the car makers that made bad decisions and got themselves into trouble, and now the mortgage borrowers who made bad decisions and got themselves into trouble.
If you gave a dog a biscuit every time he pissed on your carpet, what do you think would happen?
Seeds and plants ordered so far for the 2009 vegetable garden, and a few things for the yard outside the garden. I’m gonna be working my butt off this summer.
It really strikes me how many different squashes we have, and we don’t even have any summer squash yet. We’re really going to have to have a strategy for the squash bugs.
Several of the seeds/plants I ordered today were based on Sharon’s 25 Plants You Should Consider Growing, with additional input from my 4- and 6-year-olds.
Ordered 12DEC2008:
Bolero (F1) Carrot
Bright Lights Swiss Chard
Champion Collards
Copra Plants (F1) Onion
Garden of Eden Pole Bean
Gold Nugget (OG) Cherry Tomato
Gunnison (F1) Onion seed
Luscious (F1) (OG) Sweet Corn
Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato
Merlin (F1) (OG) Beet
Starbor (F1) Kale
Stevia
Waltham Butternut
Yellow Brandywine (OG) Tomato
Yukon Gold Potato
Ordered 14FEB2009:
AMARANTH, GOLDEN GIANT
WINTER SQUASH,HOPI ORANGE
BEAN, GARBANZO, BLACK KABOULI
Buckwheat (Common) (OG)
Beauregard Sweet Potato
Robust 128YH Popcorn (F1)
Rhubarb, MacDonald Strain
Dark Red Kidney Bean
Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts
Goldie Ground Cherry
Amish Heirloom Muskmelon
Connecticut Field Pumpkin
Honeypot Hybrid Watermelon
Ordered 27FEB2009:
Mini Apple (F1) Item No. 693 Pepper
Fordhook 242 Item No. 49 Bush Lima bean
Nothstine Dent (OG) Item No. 311G Corn for meal
Slick Pik™ YS 26 (F1) Item No. 640 Yellow Summer Squash
Echinacea Purpurea Item No. 842 Echinacea
We’ve burned about as much firewood to this point as we did all last Winter, so yesterday I took advantage of the warm weather to check out the condition of the class-A (metal) chimney. I swept it out and got maybe a cup of gunk down in the woodstove. The screen at the top was pretty gunky and probably restricting the draft to an extent, but not too bad overall. It surely could have made it to the end of the Winter without any problem, but I’m still glad I got up there to clean it out. Although I still hate going up there…it would be too easy to make one slip and fall.
Ending and Beginning 