That is the last of the snow peas. I pulled out the plants after I harvested the last few peas. I've eaten just about all of the lettuce and the carrots, just in time for the broccoli to start taking over,
The broccoli was staked for a while because we had more big wind. This is Mr. Dragonfly on the stake admiring the broccoli,
How does broccoli grow? Does it get one head of green florets on one plant? Or several bunches? It seems like a lot of plant for one bunch, but it also seems like if I get several bunches I am going to be eating an awful lot of broccoli.
The heat wave hit Boise today, and the TV was flashing red flag warnings. They neglect to tell you on TV what red flag means, so I had to look it up on-line. It is a lightning warning. With everything so dry here already, lightning can be very bad and start fires all over the place. Yahoo! Weather right now shows thunderstorms for Boise with an ominous black sky. The cats and I have been indoors almost all day along with the rest of the neighborhood and after a noisy 4th I am glad the heat drove everyone indoors.
This is the first 4th of July I truly disliked. Someone with bombs started Tuesday night circling the neighborhood until 3 am Wednesday morning. Everyone in the neighborhood had their own fireworks, and my newer neighbor two doors down was lighting fireworks in the street for her 5 year old with her baby on her hip like a tragedy waiting to happen. After the fireworks ended at the park down the street, the bomber came back. I felt like I was living in a war zone. I don't remember it being anything like this last year. I did get a break and the Harley rider and the Karaoke singer have been gone all week.
Yesterday was the end of my third week of training for my new job and yesterday I decided that I am really going to like it. Four of the six people in the training class are new to the agency and I cannot imagine trying to learn this job without the year I spent at the agency in a clerical job. As painful as it was, I learned who does what, how work flows, how to navigate around in the software, and today I am grateful for it. Last week I got a better picture of what the job will be. It is like law, it is forming an educated opinion based on certain steps, gathering evidence to support your opinion, and then writing your decision, citing your reasons, and listing your evidence. My favorite class in my Master's program was Administrative Law. I always find it interesting that personality tests that recommend jobs always list lawyer with the creative jobs, like artist and writer.
I may have a green thumb with the garden, but I do not with the lawn. After some research, I decided my lawn has a fungus and I bought some fungus treatment. I do not like chemicals in the yard, I don't use weed killer anymore, but I don't like wasting money watering a half dead looking lawn either. The lawn treatment is toxic to animals, so I let Sarah know what I was doing. I also had brown water suddenly coming out of the hot water tap, I figured I would ask her how her hot water was doing and if maybe this was occasionally normal.
After talking about fungus and brown water and our raspberry and blueberry harvests, Sarah remarked, ah, the joys of summer, but it is so short here, in a few months when it is cold and dark we will be looking back saying, remember just a few months ago when we were treating for fungus and worrying about brown water? Those were the good old days.
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