When I was 7 or 8 years old my Mom would serve mashed potatos and gravy and I would engineer a 2 inch reservoir in the potatos with furrows carrying the gravy, yet holding the gravy within ( Read more... )

I got an hour or so of digging in to-day before it started raining, so I came in for lunch ( Read more... )

Removed more excess dirt from Marvin's Garden to-day. Plan on doing more to-morrow and on Monday!

* After two months I finally have my company laptop correctly working with all peripherals. I bought a 2nd power brick for home and a ps2 to usb adapter for both mouse and keyboard for work...both paid for by me and both work as I discovered yesterday. This completes the transition to a new laptop which has limited connections to old peripherals ( Read more... )

Took this rare good weather day as a vacation so I could get a headstart on Marvin's Garden ( Read more... )

Picked more weeds to-day. It is good enough now to mow, I think ( Read more... )

My plans for a front dry well have been stymied by my discovery of the buried oil tank in the yard ( Read more... )

This is why I don't agree with the politicians who cry "Drill, baby drill." The oceans and seas have enough problems without oil pollution.

Think electric cars are the answer to the energy/carbon problem? Not if there is a battery shortage. Lithium has an even shorter supply than oil! Bicycles, anyone?