Recent content by flowerbug

by surface area perhaps, not sure about by weight or volume...

heeheehee... :)

55F this morning, trash day due to holiday so had to go out in the frozen tundra, well, ok, it felt like it was frozen out there... sunny, warm today with nearly 80F forecast.

it was dry and hot for several weeks but we did get some rains eventually. i'm mostly done watering for the season as i want the beans to dry down and i don't want the flavor of the tomatoes to be watered down either. peppers seem to do ok no matter what. we do have some chances of rain...

North and South Carolina - endangered now due to habitat destruction. pitcher plants seem to have figured out how to get around better as i've seen them in the UP of MI attached to floating logs in a lake.

for a bigger display can you plug the laptop into a different monitor? i build my own desktops and it's not too difficult, but just have to make sure that all the parts are compatible. best reason is that i can reuse my case which is from a Dell that i bought in '98. my speakers that i bought...

a friend at college introduced me to his music (30ish years ago) and not long after he came to campus and played at the student union coffee house. i'm not sure where he's at now but i think he's not far from where i am here in mid-Michigan.

that was just what was left from the first picking. i haven't looked at the tomato patch since that day because i don't want to see how much more damage the raccoons might be doing... it was 16 & 1/2 quarts total.

canning tomatoes this morning while waiting for the dew to dry off out there. looks like i have about 16-18 quarts to get into jars now that i have them skinned, cored and chunked. resting a bit before i get them hot and pack into jars and seal.

one of the first things i did as a kid was have a carnivorous terrarium with venus flytraps in it. i managed to get them to flower and hand fertilized them to get some seeds, which i then sprouted. went away for a week and asked my sister to keep the sprouts moist but she forgot about them and...

sunny, foggy some mornings, until Wed-Thu chances of rain.

YT is now doing "Mix"es which are lists they generate based upon what you've recently listened to plus things they "think" you might like.

because our toaster is a wanker. started on 6 which barely got the toast brown so i gave it another 3 which was too much. this is the 2nd time in 6 months i've made toast... *beep beep!*

vamoose!

simple today with hot chocolate and semi-burnt toast and butter.