It felt like I actually watched the blueberries turn blue. Blueberries are not as easy to harvest as raspberries. Raspberries pull off easily when they are ready, but blueberries pull off the same, ready or not. Blueberries should be blue all over with no reddish spots, which is hard to tell when they grow in big bunches. I've tried a few and the ones that are really ready are sweet, the too early ones are a bit sour.
What I thought were carrots growing in the middle of the vegetable planter are tomatoes. You would think I would know the difference, but I know I did not plant tomatoes. Either I did by mistake, or one of my seed packages is mismarked. The tops of my carrots are really tall and Sarah taught me how to tell if the carrot is ready. You dig around the base of the carrot to see the top of the carrot and how wide in diameter it is. I checked a few of mine, which were still fairly small, but I pulled them to help make room for more carrots too close by,
These are heirlooms that are different colors and one of them ran out of soft soil and started to grow sideways. Even small, carrots still taste the same and are crunchy. That is my third harvested head of lettuce and I've eaten three salads with my home grown lettuce this week.
Someone moved in next door. When the house went up for sale there was a steady stream of people driving or stopping by the house for a few days and then nothing for a few months. My new neighbor moved in about a week ago and quickly replaced the front yard left over cement decoration with flowers. It appears to be a single woman with a rabbit, no dog, yay! She moved in just in time to look at the flooded alley,
I think that is the karaoke singer bossing some guy digging in the hole. They have since filled up the hole, but left orange tape and cones on each side, and there is still flooding water. Water is a big deal here and standing water is a big deal everywhere. Every house in Boise has a backflow prevention assembly, which is used to protect the water supply from contamination or pollution due to backflowing water.
Backflow is the reversal in the flow of water from a potential source of contamination back to the potable (or clean) water supply. An example is having a garden hose in a bucket of soapy water at your home, and having backflow event occur causing that soapy water to "backflow" into the drinking water portion of your home.
From Wikipedia:
"A backflow prevention assembly is used to protect water supplies from contamination or pollution due to backflow.
In water supply systems, water is normally maintained at a significant pressure to enable water to flow from the tap, shower etc. When pressure fails or is reduced as may happen if a water main bursts, pipes freeze or there is unexpectedly high demand on the water system, the pressure in the pipe may be reduced and may allow contaminated water from the ground, from storage or from other sources to be drawn into the system.
Back pressure is another way that an undesirable contaminant may enter potable water piping. Sources of back pressure may be pumps in the water distribution system, boilers, heat exchanging equipment, or power washing equipment. In these cases there may be an almost constant risk of overcoming the static water pressure in the piping. To reduce the risk of contamination, a backflow preventer can be fitted. A backflow preventer is also important when chemicals are used, for instance for commercial/industrial descaling (boilers) or when bleaches are used for residential power washing.
To prevent contamination due to back pressure, some regulatory regimes require an air gap or mechanical backflow prevention assembly between the delivery point of mains water and local storage or use.[1] Where submerged mains inflow is permitted a backflow prevention assembly is required, which protects the potable water system from contamination hazards."
This just happened in Boise recently, where polluted water from an empty house made the neighbors sick. So, I think I have to call the water company and report the broken pipe, who knows if my neighbors have a working assembly or if they are polluting the neighborhood water. And in case you were wondering, the karaoke singer never shut up the entire time the guy was digging.
If I was my new neighbor, besides not buying a house with a backyard looking at my neighbor's outdoor stage, I would have planted a row of fast growing trees between my house and the alley. Because she planted flowers right away, I figure she must be an owner, not a renter.
The temple down the street is having "Deli Days" this weekend. Boise is short on deli food, not very many Jewish people, unlike the San Fernando Valley where I grew up, so I think I will walk over today and have a corned beef on rye. You can only eat so much salad.
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