Prague Astronomical Clock - 600th Anniversary Show

Now That's Awesome

http://vimeo.com/15749093

Memorial Day

Today we remember those that served.

It's Planting Time In the Northeast

Memorial Day weekend in the Northeast.  Last frost date May 25th around here, that means we're safe from frost at this point and very busy putting in the gardens.

I took the week off to see if we could get it all done, and the first few days were rained out, then the lawn needed mowing, Finally we got the gardens tilled on Wednesday, it was a wicked hot, humid day for tilling.


A lot of amending went into the gardens this year to rejuvenate the beds. We added several trailer loads of Compost, Chicken & Rabbit Manure, Blood meal, Bone meal, 10-10-10, and topped that off with Lime.




I want to expand the compost beds this year, and use them more often.

We're trying a couple two new heirloom tomatoes this year, along with our Brandywine.


The four raised beds are in,
1. All Tomato
2. Cabbage and Brussel sprouts and some red onion under netting to keep those damned cabbage moths away we hope...
3. Broccoli and Peppers, Yellow, and Cubanelle
4. Summer Squashes
5. Peas
6. Herbs rose planted a bunch
Several 55 gallon drum rings, and planters to plant in also.


The main garden will house all of the larger crops
More tomatoes, Roma, Beefsteak, 
Winter squashes, Waltham Butternut, and Blue Hubbard variants.
Potatoes, three varieties this year, and a couple sweet potatoes too.
Beans, Pole, yellows, and a few heirloom varieties.
Watermelon
Pumpkins, we're going to try a "Mammoth" this year
Lots more onion, and some shallot
Oh and we won't forget Kale this year, jeesh can't believe we forgot the Kale last year.

I'm sure we'll pick up a few more things, we forgot Bell Peppers and I'm sure a couple other items we'll want to add.

The grandsons are coming over Sunday evening for a sleepover, we'll see if they are up to helping plant on Monday after the Parade.

Let the Gardening begin!

Wait is that the Sun?  Amazing, I'm on vacation this week and the Sun is out.  It's been rain here for at least a week and a half now.

We got some breaks in the rain Tuesday morning, so we ran to the Hardware store and rented their rototiller for 3 hrs, yeah 3 to 4 hours is what it takes.  The sun came out a few times making it very hot and humid, the black flies were out too.  We finished the tilling, the machine did a fair job considering we didn't put in the big garden last year.  Now comes the fun part the cleanup, cutting the roots, grass, etc from the tiller tines and giving it a good washing off to remove all the dirt.  Rose and I hoisted the tiller into the back of the van and rushed it back so we didn't have to rent it for an additional hour.  The cost $12.50 per hour two hour minimum and we had them add one additional hour bringing the total to $37.50.  I think I can grow that...  Someday I'll break down and buy a tiller, it's just one of those things that get used so infrequently it seems a waste.

So one garden tilled, four more raised beds to go out back, plus the planters and barrels.  The remaining gardens will need to be turned by hand.  Busy week if we're to get it all in this week.

We're hopeful the weather is a little better this year, the last two were not a s good as we'd have liked from a garden standpoint, not enough sun and very wet causing blight, and mildew problems.

Off to measure the garden area so I can plan out where to put things.

Rose got a deal on a bunch of veggie plants so we'll save some time there, I picked up a couple heirloom tomato plants and some onion slips too.

Then there's the declodding, raking, bean poles, tomato stakes, hilling, sowing, amending, fertilizing, watering, and, and, and... and you wonder why tomatoes are $1.50/lb or more.

I can almost taste the ripe red tomatoes now.

CDC - Blogs - Public Health Matters Blog – Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

CDC - Blogs - Public Health Matters Blog – Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

Safety Maps: A Do Project

Great idea, emergency meet up maps. Just in case...

Safety Maps: A Do Project

McDonalds Iced Coffee Hell

It was afternoon yesterday headed out to pick up some soil amendments.  We decided another coffee was in order, hit the McDonald's drive thru in Goffstown.  I ordered my Medium Regular Iced Coffee and ordered Rose the Medium cream only.  Not a bad deal they have the medium Iced coffees on sale for a dollar. 

Evidently the folks at McDonald's can't tell the difference between Coffee and Tea, as what I received for my dollar was TEA with Cream and Sugar,  Rose's coffee was fine.  I thought maybe it's just me so I had Rose taste it too.  Yuck, not exactly Lovin' It McD'.  

It's back to Dunkin' Donuts for this family, between mostly cream iced coffees, to the most watered down coffee, you've blown it, I will not waste my hard earned dollars at your establishment.

There's a new coffee house on RT114a headed towards Pinardville, maybe I'll try it!

Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor

Great Video, no really...   watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-udsIV4Hmc&feature=related



Go Mike!

A thousand wishes...

All of us have a thousand wishes. 

To be thinner, to be bigger, have more money, have a cool car, a day off, a new phone, to date the person of your dreams. 

A cancer patient only has one wish, to kick cancer's ass. 

I know that 97% of you won't post this as your status, but my friends will be the 3% that do. 

In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, post this for at least one hour.

 

 

 Pulled from the Facebook Page of Wayne Gitlitz!   Atta Boy Wayne!