I tried seeds from a new company whose stuff we carry at work:  High Mowing Seeds.  Organic.  I got some lettuce seeds, planted them.  Lettuce typically takes 3 to 5 days.  These: eighteen hours, for Pete's sake, and they were starting up just beautifully.  I can grow them up into baby lettuces in our cellar, long before it's time to do anything in ( Read more... )

It's official: within two weeks I should be back to cashing all the time, and out of the demo job.  This is a great relief, because even though I love demoing, the head of the department I report to, herein named Martha, isn't going to change.  If I stay she'll drive me nuts, as she evidently has many other people.  Best to get out while the ( Read more... )

I've been wondering lately about the higher incidence of grocery carts left in the store.  Frequently three-quarters full, they are abandoned as if their owners have suddenly had a change of heart.  Regretably, they are all-too-often not identified as such until the cheese is warm, the once-frozen pastry thawed, the eggs probably unsaleable.  I ( Read more... )