Going to pick up a few items at the grocery and spotted snow & alaskan crabs and couldn't resist making a late night seafood snack! Shrimp crabs boiled in red pepper seasoning and dipped in garlic butter!!! With slow/mellow jams playing in the ears and topped with a nice scotch!
April 2005 Archives
I have my vegetable garden ready to accept plants in the backyard. I went over the garden 3 separate times with a rototiller to get the ground ready.
The first time I ran the rototiller just to loosen the soil after turning over the soil with a shovel to find out the soil's condition. The second time I turned the soil over again with a shovel trying to break the fine tree roots from the pine trees in my neighbor’s backyard. These roots were spread all over and turned my nice loose soil close to the consistency of clay. The second pass with a rototiller chopped up the roots I broke manually with the shovel. The third time I ran the rotoliller was to further break up the roots as well as mix in some new soil plant food.
I also went ahead and re-planted some strawberry plants I had removed and placed in planters to get the soil ready. I also planted some tomato plants, Ace Tomatoes & San Francisco Fog Tomatoes. I planted some cayenne & habanera peppers as well as cucumbers.
I still have some other plants to get and place in the garden.
In the midst of everything else I have going on have my new test server up and ready to test features such as the new scrolling play list etc for my music page.
Did the work at home thing so that I could step right outside after work and get into the garden. Took the new rototiller out of the box and put it to immediate work in the vegetable garden bed. Did that and dug up around a young almond tree that I let stay in the vegetable garden bed as a separation point but needs to go now!
Besides the rototilling and digging I had to use my new weed eater as well to get the grass growing up along the planks of my raised garden. I then was able to trim along my west fence where the bushes and trees hang over from my neighbor’s yard with my electric hedge clippers. Now that my electrical issue is clearly solved I can get out there and get a few additional moments in the yard and see clearly in the kitchen!!
Yes, I was able to use my outdoor patio lights for the first time in a while thanks to my electrician former neighbor who returned from his trek overseas.
Didn't get much done on the web site today except lining up music.
I am getting ready on the house ready for the warmer weather and streamlining some more as well. You know the saying "out with the old and in with the new".
Well to some extent I am doing that as an ongoing process that was slowed by other events out of my control.
I am revamping the old computer room, the living room looks quite different already and the rest of the house is following along.
I still have my vegetable garden to get going as well as cutting down and hopefully re-planting some trees in the front and getting some ferns and other shade plants in my front gardens. This year instead of manual labor with the shovel as I usually do I am using a rototiller to save time since my weekends are not free at this point.
Once I have all changes made I will bring in home cleaning service/maid service and just start enjoying and traveling a bit. Then come on back and dive into my side businesses.
