I'll be leaving for Wiscon tomorrow morning. I've decided to go by train and bus. I'll leave East Lansing (home of MSU) tomorrow morning at 0830 and arriving in Madison by 1530 -- I hope! I have to be in the ConSuite at 1700 for my volunteer shift ( Read more... )

The soil is somewhat sandy, and I've been thinking of different gardening ideas. One that I'm kinda in love with is hugelkultur.


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I won't be able to buy property until I'm out of school, but I should graduate in December of this year. There's several pieces of property I'm looking at, and the one on the top of my list is hilly ( Read more... )

This morning I woke from a violet dream where I ended up picking up my assailant by the face and killing him by beating the back of his head against the side jamb of the entrance door. So, one nightmare attacker down ( Read more... )

It's pre' crazy to think that I can do a garden this year. I'll be into the third semester of nursing school, and I'll (hopefully) be working as an LPN at Hospice of Lansing (well, they told me to call them, please, when I pass the LPNCLEX) -- so it's ridiculous to consider a garden ( Read more... )

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We're putting the garden to bed this week. It was a pre'good garden, though there were some disappointments. On the good side, we had a ton of tomatoes -- I made sauce, paste, and salsa. Tonight I'm going to be making a green tomato and mango salsa with the last of them. One disappointment with the tomatoes is that the main crop was a lovely ( Read more... )

The garden was all about tomatoes this year. And broccoli; we had a ton of broccoli. But we also harvested pumpkin, acorn squash, zucchini, rutabaga, sweet corn, collard greens and kale. It's been in the mid-70s all week (22.5ºC - 24.5ºC), which is just weird but expected. I still have tomatoes that are ripening. I'm not sure when the first ( Read more... )

The tomatoes are coming in! And they are lovely, if not exactly the type I was hoping for. Something is going on with my romas -- lots of green ones and very few reds, so I expect that folks around the neighborhood are picking them. Which, okay. That's why I put that garden over there and I told folks that they could come and pick. In the mean ( Read more... )

I've got a meeting with Jerome's lawyer on Wednesday. I'm not sure how it's going to go -- he mentioned the mental health court and that would be great if Jerome would be compliant but I really don't see that happening ( Read more... )