Work, Travel and Gardening for the Fall
I think this is my 3rd week in my new position at work. We're still waiting for my previous position to be posted so I'm sort of touching base with my previous group as needed.
Tough timing for a transition:
* start of a new school year
* 1/3 into a new project to update a/v equipment in all classrooms and lecture halls
* half way into design planning for the new academic building
* a/v equipment starting to die in the University Center
...well, I can keep going...
It's a potentially fun position once the dust settles. It also looks like I may be going to NAB (Las Vegas) and InfoComm (Anaheim) in 2007.
And to add to things, Michael will be either traveling a lot or be on-call a bit for the next month or so. Michael is planning on attending Supercomputing in November. So we're talking about vacationing before or after for a week in Orlando.
In the meantime in the garden...we have more red pear tomatoes than we can keep up with. Yes, I've been giving them away as well. All this from 1 plant. And in looking at the extended forecast, it looks like temperature lows may be dropping below 55F next week. So I'm motivated to find some sort of season extending solution for one of the beds this weekend. For the other bed, I'll be digging up and making pesto. A lot of it I presume. I understand it freezes well. I'm thinking of using this recipe as a base. One neighbor says he uses locatelli cheese instead of romano or parmesan and he uses roasted garlic. I love the idea of roasted garlic, but I'm planning on using pecorino romano for cheese. A co-worker says she doesn't include cheese since she likes to add it fresh, especially when she freezes her pesto. Maybe for the first batch, I'll use cheese.
I could probably start harvesting eggplants, but I'm trying to hold off to harvest just before I start preparing moussaka, neat recipe but I had to spend some time converting metric to US.
As for winter gardening, I placed an order last week from The Garlic Store, and ordered a sampler 6 pack of hardneck and softneck garlic. If you peruse the recipes section, you'll find an interesting recipe for a, "Gilroy Martini," but I think I'll pass. According to my calculations, I can plant 51 bulbs in a bed and still overlap some seedlings for early spring planting if necessary.
Tough timing for a transition:
* start of a new school year
* 1/3 into a new project to update a/v equipment in all classrooms and lecture halls
* half way into design planning for the new academic building
* a/v equipment starting to die in the University Center
...well, I can keep going...
It's a potentially fun position once the dust settles. It also looks like I may be going to NAB (Las Vegas) and InfoComm (Anaheim) in 2007.
And to add to things, Michael will be either traveling a lot or be on-call a bit for the next month or so. Michael is planning on attending Supercomputing in November. So we're talking about vacationing before or after for a week in Orlando.
In the meantime in the garden...we have more red pear tomatoes than we can keep up with. Yes, I've been giving them away as well. All this from 1 plant. And in looking at the extended forecast, it looks like temperature lows may be dropping below 55F next week. So I'm motivated to find some sort of season extending solution for one of the beds this weekend. For the other bed, I'll be digging up and making pesto. A lot of it I presume. I understand it freezes well. I'm thinking of using this recipe as a base. One neighbor says he uses locatelli cheese instead of romano or parmesan and he uses roasted garlic. I love the idea of roasted garlic, but I'm planning on using pecorino romano for cheese. A co-worker says she doesn't include cheese since she likes to add it fresh, especially when she freezes her pesto. Maybe for the first batch, I'll use cheese.
I could probably start harvesting eggplants, but I'm trying to hold off to harvest just before I start preparing moussaka, neat recipe but I had to spend some time converting metric to US.
As for winter gardening, I placed an order last week from The Garlic Store, and ordered a sampler 6 pack of hardneck and softneck garlic. If you peruse the recipes section, you'll find an interesting recipe for a, "Gilroy Martini," but I think I'll pass. According to my calculations, I can plant 51 bulbs in a bed and still overlap some seedlings for early spring planting if necessary.