AARP Asshats

See the posts at atlasshrugs.com and michellemalkin.com on AARP shilling for ObamaDeathCare.

We get the AARP magazine. I read a couple and realized it was a waste of time, I could read HuffPo or NYT and see the same barf. So, I just wrote to AARP at this address:
http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/contact/a2003-01-22-membershipfaq.html

Please remove me from your mauling list. I just turned 50 and, because your organization’s political views are so far to the left and support the ObamaDeathCare proposal (which I READ), I want nothing to do with your disseminated disinformation.

My husband, Dr. Happy, who also resides at this address would like to have his name removed as well. He is a physician who, in 1985, saw the demise of true “health care” coming through the vehicle of “HMO”s.

This ObamaDeathCare lead up to single-payer “health” care will be as disastrous - if not more so - than those in Canada or UK.

It will cause thousands of doctors to LEAVE medicine (as he did),

cause more suffering for patients (why do you think the wealthy come to the USA for treatments and Ted Kennedy didn’t go to hospitals in his HOME STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS?)

and cause people to LOSE CHOICES (in UK, thyroid patients are being told they only have 2 options and, if they choose dessicated thyroid meds, they will not be eligible for further treatment through the NHS.)

Stop pushing the Euthanasia For Seniors and Other Useless Eaters Bill and go back to doing something useful - getting seniors discounts for “stuff”.

Sincerely
Peanut
A Grandma, but not-quite a Senior

Probably will still get their crap just like the Scientology drones, but - heh! - I tried to save a tree...LOL

Those Berkley Students in Hel...er, Iran

Dr. Happy and I had a little clash of the minds....granted, we DO read different websites. I tend to be more Conservative, he is more all-over-the-place.

The story is this:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

Four Americans -- two of them students in Syria -- traveled from Syria to Turkey and then into Kurdistan in northern Iraq, arriving at Irbil on Tuesday, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya, where they arrived Thursday after driving from Irbil.

All four spent the night at the Nirwan Hotel, according to the owner of the facility.

Three of the group left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, Ahmed said. The fourth member of the group was ill and stayed behind.

The taxi driver dropped the three off near the border and returned to town, he said.

Ahmed Awa police spotted the hikers at one point on Friday, Ahmed said, and warned them that they were near the Iranian border -- which is not marked in the area -- and that they should be careful.

The group was in contact with their companion in Sulaimaniya until about 1:30 p.m. Friday, when they reported they were "surrounded by Iranian soldiers," Ahmed said. No further communication was received.

Officials in Sulaimaniya are meeting to devise a strategy to bring the hikers home safely, Ahmed said.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the U.S. Embassy "is aware of the reports and is investigating. We are using all available means to determine the facts in this case."

Mudhafer Mohammed, owner of the Nirwan Hotel, said the hikers said they had come to the area because they heard it was safe, saying they were considering a trip to Ahmed Awa. But, he said, he advised them against it.

"I warned them many times," Mohammed said.

"When they told me that they are planning to go to Ahmed Awa, I told them, 'Don't go there because it is unsafe for you because you're American and Ahmed Awa is very close to the Iranian border,'" he said.
The fourth American who had stayed behind left the hotel about 4:30 p.m., Mohammed said, asking him to take care of their luggage and saying he would not return. Later, he said, Sulaimaniya security forces took the luggage from the hotel.

Whose fault is it that these three "tourists" are in an Iranian prison? And why are they there?

More importantly, will Bill Clinton go to Iran and promise Akmunutjob free-rein on HIS COUNTRY'S nuclear program to get the twits home?

Inquiring minds....

The Garden Update

Pretty Pole Beans Pictured here:


Hot little Thai Chili Peppers:


Scallop Squash stating to grow:


Purple Pole beans pictured alone:


A picture of one of the Snow Peas we'll be eating tomorrow:


Check out this big salad Tomato:


My Corn is about "waist-high" to me:


Here is a baby Watermelon just getting started:


The ripening cherry tomatoes:


You can see the carrot tops are nice and big:


Here are the Brussel Sprouts:


A baby Bell Pepper:


Here is my cute little Cantaloupe:

My Adventures in Canning Chickens

Here is a pic of my lovely new Presto Pressure Canner.


Here is a picture of the finished product, canned chicken meat:


How I got there? Ah you did have to ask, didn't you?

Well, I had these three kosher chicken in the freezer. Ralph's has been selling them frozen, so I've been picking one up when I think about it. We ran out of room in the freezer for my chocolate ice cream, and this is the Wrong Time of the Month for that crap.

So on Tuesday morning, I took them out and thawed them. (I DO have priorities, yah know.) On Tuesday in the late afternoon, I realized that the big meat pans were Somewhere in a box. My boxes of "stuff" are on the patio and in the garage. So, I located the two pans. Procrastinated. Surfed the Net. Finally boiled the chickens. It was 11PM when they were done. Cooled 'em and stuck 'em in the fridge.

Today was C-day. Cleaned and assembled the new pressure cooker. Picked the chicken off the bones and put back in the fridge. Made a big vat of broth from turnips, carrots, onions, celery, garlic, salt, bay leaves, parsnips and pepper.

Filled the pint jars with meat. Ladled the hot broth over them, cleaned off the rims and put on the caps.

Got the water boiling in the canner. Put the jars in the canner and tightened the lid. Got the whole thing boiling without the pressure controller on the pan, like the instruction manual said to do. Put the controller on, turned down the heat, adjusted in until the pressure was 11 psi. All good. Book said to keep on the pressure for 75 minutes. Cool.

Thirty minutes into processing time, I am in the living room eating lunch and I hear a "pop". I look up and streamy water is squirting straight up from the canner to the ceiling. Yeah, the overpressure plug blew. So, I got the canner turned off, the pressure released and the water mopped up. (BTW - a Swiffer mop with a towel works wonders to clean a ceiling. Darn it was filthy!)

The book, of course, said that you need a new plug. Try finding one in California. I ordered three on line. They'll be here sometime before my next birthday, I'm sure.

So, I go next door to talk to the neighbor, Lou. Lou is about 87 or so. He says to just try putting the plug back in and see if it holds the pressure. Dang, someone needs to tell Tom Dashle that old people are useful.

And it worked. Lou said it was probably just not seated correctly and blew out because of theimproper seal. So I finished up and can now do the other stuff I was planning before I cleaned the ceiling.

And I got out to yoga class at 6pm, too. Amazing.

Garden Pictures from June 16 ~ Updated today

These pictures have been updated so you can see the ripe cherry tomatoes and blueberries, which we will be enjoying on Friday night for Sabbath dinner.

I wanted to post the pics of the micro-irrigation system. These are okay pictures, but the garden is actually looking more filled in just in the past two week. If you look closely, you can see the hoses from the main lines for the drip irrigation system I installed.

We have eaten all the first two crops of lettuce, we're eating strawberries (a few) every week, snow peas every week and are awaiting our very first SLO tomatoes! There are 3 that just started turning colors - it won't be long now!

First, let's start with the fruits:

Here are the boysenberries:


A close-up of one of the boysenberry plants:


Pic of the squash and beans (since entirely eaten by the sowbug/roly polies:


Here are the watermelons along the fence:


And the tomatoes next to them:




Now, we'll scoot over to the blueberry bushes, from which Dr. Happy and I had our first nibbles last weekend:








Here's the view of the longer, fatter part of the garden:


Close-up of the strawberries on the right:



The cherry tomatoes:





The big tomatoes:


I think you can see the tomato peeking out:


Green onions and spinach, not the best growing part of the garden. I may need to add some more soil to this part:



Cantaloupes and honey dew melons flowering:


Hot peppers and green peppers:


Brussel sprouts sprouting:



Midget corn:


Peas and beans:


Peas on the end:


Moving over to the flower box that you can't see, here are herbs IN the flower box.
Cilantro:


Parsley:


Green onions:


Dill:


Basil:


Gotta go take the chickens off the stove to cook so I can pick off the meat and turn it into soup. I received the pressure canner I ordered, so I will be using it for the first time to turn those chickens into soup for the winter. I am so glad I finally cooked them, they were taking up so much space in the freezer!

More pictures when I get to them...

On the Iranian Election...

My son called me chortling about the Iranian election. His take:

Bush made sure that the former Evil leader in Iraq was tried fairly in a court of his peers and that his sentence was carried out by the government of Iraq. i.e., a vicious dictator was toppled. People in Iraq - even the bad ones - have freedom. History, after all is said and done - will be kind to W, just probably not until the Obamabots are all dead and the Universities purged of people that should be in prison (Ayers/Churchhill/Doern).

That said, this toppling of Saddam and freeing of the Iraqi people emboldened the Iranians (who are, over all, the second best educated country in the Middle East). Almost 90% of the eligible voters went to the polls. And we are to believe that: (a) Amanutjob won by a landslide, (b) the three top contenders ALL LOST by 80% margin in their HOMETOWNS, (c) the results of a HAND COUNTED BALLOT were available only a couple HOURS after the polls closed (in the USSA, even with computers, it took days to complete the counts!) and (d) that many people all went to the polls just to ensure Amanutjob would remain in power?

Oh, and the foriegn journalists needed to be arrested ahead of time, cell phone towers disabled and internet service disrupted in order to “secure the peace”?
N-a-a-a-a-a-w, even Joe Biden isn’t that stupid. But I am ABSOLUTELY SURE ACORN and Obamessiah are very busy taking notes on how they can effect this scenario here in the USSA.

“If we could only do something about those pesky gun-n-God-clingers,” muses Obamessiah outloud…

My thought: There is probably not much difference between the candidates' policies. Dr. Happy says that the other folks were just running on the platform of wiping Israel off the face of the earth on different timetables. Different toots, same smells...

OMG - Will We Never Wake Up From This Nightmare???

First there is the Moron Sotomayer being nominated to SCOTUS. This woman believes that she is more qualified than any white man BECAUSE she's a Hispanic woman. Yeah, with her 60% rate of reversal - we are in for a wild time, FER SURE. We can only hope that the other Justices beat/talk some sense into her thick skull so she is unable to do TOO much damage.

Next on our OMG list, FINALLY Obama begins coming clean on his "Muslim Roots". Too late for the morons in this country who VOTED THE ASSHOLE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. AAARRRUUUGGGG! (Just think, Hillary could've been POTUS. Yup, works like ipeicac for me, too. Yeah, yeah - someone DID piss in my cornflakes this morning. Ate 'em anyway, thank you very much.)

Then, our president doesn't know about certain DOD Government Agency. He learns about it at a BURGER JOINT. Just gives me more confidence in the guy - he can really pick his advisors, eh? Here's the agency description:

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.

NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term "geospatial intelligence" means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information.

To top that, Obama thinks the United States is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world". Umm-humm, 0.6% Muslim and it is one of the largest. Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims. United States: 2.3 million Muslims (according to the Pew Research Center).

Nice to know we beat out the other 57 Muslim countries...how's the Saudi king gonna take the news, I wonder? Guess we should get ready for that freaking TAX, too.

Nice to know we beat out the other 57 Muslim countries...how's the Saudi king gonna take the news, I wonder? Guess we should get ready for that freaking TAX, too.
Then there were the two shootings: Tiller the Baby Killer in Kansas and an Arkansas Army Recruiter. Obama gets all weepy and indignant about Tiller being murdered by a Christian Extremist. Can't just say - nut job murderer, gotta insult the religion of 90+% of the country. Not a peep - even condolances to the family - the 20-something young man who just finished bootcamp and was gunned down by a Jihadi Convert newly trained in Yemen. Sends shivers down my spine for the military folks. Great behavior for their CinC. *sigh*

Lastly - airplanes are the targets again.

The airliner that disappeared may have been downed by Jihadis. From the comments section of lgf2:

Two grim possibilities come to mind regarding the crash…

1) Some kind of sudden structural failure crippled the jet at high altitude, leading to an immediate, explosive decompression and a rapid disintegration of the airframe. While rare, this kind of freak accident has happened before, more than once.

2) Terrorists on the flight itself detonated a bomb that brought the plane down.

Le Monde has reported that up to five middle-eastern passengers (three Morocca and two Lebanese) were on board. (Note from P: Was actually Thaindian that listed the passenger nationality list and it was two Morrocans, one Turk and five Lebanese - but, as we know, Muslims come in ALL nationalities. Among the dead: A 25-year-old descendant of Brazil's long-defunct royal family was also on the passenger manifest.)

It may well be that severe weather or some type of freak structural failure brought that plane down, killing everyone.

Or, maybe it was . . . something else

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And someone is shooting at airplanes in Texas:

A Continental Express pilot reported seeing a "missile or rocket" flying near his aircraft over Friday night over Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The pilot told the Federal Aviation Administration an object was spotted within 150 feet below his airplane around 8:15 p.m. Friday night over Liberty County, Texas, the newspaper reported.

Lord, my head hurts. That's what I get for not doing my yoga the past 10 weeks.

Netanyahu becoming Observant? Nahhhh....

Arutz Sheva has a great article quoting some Moron Imam:

Speaking at a conference organized by website Islam Online in Doha, Qatar, Salah stated his belief that Netanyahu may try to build the Jewish Temple – which the Islamic preacher called “the false temple” – during his current term after allegedly faiing to do so in his first term as Prime Minister in the late 1990s.

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The First Temple was razed by Babylonian conquerors, rebuilt by Jews by permission of a Persian emperor, defiled by Greeks and then re-consecrated by the Hasmoneans, and burnt down again by Romans.

Jewish religion commands the Jews to rebuild the Temple as part of a Divine plan for the salvation of the Jewish people and the entire world, but Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is not considered observant, never has associated himself with efforts by Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.

But, since he *did* meet with The Anti-Christ (Obamessiah), he may have had a change of heart. And with Mahmood and Kimmie doing the Nuclear Tango this week, it may have given him a little taste of yirah HaShamayim (Fear of Heaven).

*SNICKER*

Netanyahu defied American wishes and broke ground on more West Bank settlements after Obambi specifically told him not to build anymore. 'Course some think that Netanyahu might have something on Obama. If you call EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE RUNNING A COUNTRY, DESIRE TO SURVIVE AND SEE HIS COUNTRY SURVIVE HIS CURRENT TERM, Having a HIGHER IQ than NObama and ADVANCED DEGREES FROM MIT/HARVARD "something on him", yeah, I'll buy into that idea.

But if he had copies of The One's Indonesian/Muslim Passport or Kenyan Birth Certificate, all the better.

Kim Jong Il

Somewhere in Vegas:

BHO: yo, Bobby, my man, what do you think we should do about Kimmie’s little fireworks display?

GenRG: We should drop some bunker busters on the fruitcake and simultaniously bomb his nuclear facilities.

BHO: Oh, Bob, you are such a card. Let me phone him on the Axis of Evil ™ Red Phone. Hummm, where did I put my Little Red Book? Ah, here it is.
(dials phone)

KJI: What you want? I busy posting pics on my new blog. Want Mahmood to see how good his stuff worked for me.

BHO: Kim, you need to take a little break. Japan and South Korea are a l-e-e-e-t-t-l-e nervous with your War Games.

KJI: So? It is a free country…You got any old ordinance I can take off your hands?

BHO: No, we are destroying our ordinance. Say, why don’t you join me on Wednesday for a few rounds of golf? Shelli will have some of that wagyu beef you so enjoy and we can pop the cork on one of those new bottles of vino that Auuhnoold dropped off last week.

KJI: No way, Jose. Last time I was there Rahm brought in Arby’s and tried to pass it off as wagyu. That make me really mad. Say want to see something BIG fun? Pull up Google Earth and zoom to The Golden Gate Bridge.

BHO: I don’t have time for that now, I’m in the middle of a fund raiser for Harry.

KJI: Look INCOMING TO HOLLYWOOD!!!!

BHO: Oh no, you DIDN’T! You little rat…

KJI: You call me little rat, eh? INCOMING TO Fancy Nancy!!!

BHO: (chucking to self) Now, Kim, don’t do me any favors? (pulls out Blackberry and fiddles with it….)

What are the "Aliens" saying about America today?

They are looking at Earth from afar through their super-duper high-power telescopes and saying:

"It's like Mickey and Donald and tinkerbell on Acid down there.
Robert Gates tells the Naval Academy Class of 2009 to "Question Authority.
North Korea tests a Nuclear Bomb in its own country, setting off a 4.7 earthquake and issue a statement that the test 'did no damage'.
Obama thinks there is a language called 'Austrian' and that people with no financial skills should be bailed out by those who do.

Yeah, let's vacation on Alpha Centari. The Democrats don't run anything there, so it might actually be fun.Except they don't enjoy our anal probings as much."

Remembering Our War Dead

It took me FOREVER to find ANYONE on the Central Coast memorializing fallen US Veterans. I guess it just isn't as important as trashing the previous administration, art exhibits and pushing to give extra-ordinary rights to homosexuals. Yeah, to each their own. I was just sadden by the lack of parades or even religious services to remember what it cost in blood to keep the freedoms the whiners and perverts enjoy.

Highlights from the news today:

The text of former VP Cheney's dressing-down of Prez Hussein's response to terrorism threats. My favorite snippets:

In the years since, I've heard occasional speculation that I'm a different man after 9/11. I wouldn't say that. But I'll freely admit that watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities.

.....

By presidential decision, last month we saw the selective release of documents relating to enhanced interrogations. This is held up as a bold exercise in open government, honoring the public's right to know. We're informed, as well, that there was much agonizing over this decision. Yet somehow, when the soul-searching was done and the veil was lifted on the policies of the Bush administration, the public was given less than half the truth. The released memos were carefully redacted to leave out references to what our government learned through the methods in question. Other memos, laying out specific terrorist plots that were averted, apparently were not even considered for release. For reasons the administration has yet to explain, they believe the public has a right to know the method of the questions, but not the content of the answers.

....

It is a fact that only detainees of the highest intelligence value were ever subjected to enhanced interrogation. You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists. One of them was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--the mastermind of 9/11, who has also boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl.

..END of Snippets...

Yup, Danny Pearl, of screaming while barbarians cut off his head with a dull knife from the front - so as to prolong his agony. As I recall, it took 5 minutes to get the torso separated from the head and the screaming lasted several minutes.

I so don't worry about a little "water-boarding" of the guy who DID the CUTTING OFF.

To return to the topic of the day, our fallen soldiers and veterans, Mr. Cheney so aptly put it:

Like so many others who serve America, they are not the kind to insist on a thank-you. But I will always be grateful to each one of them, and proud to have served with them for a time in the same cause. They, and so many others, have given honorable service to our country through all the difficulties and all the dangers. I will always admire them and wish them well. And I am confident that this nation will never take their work, their dedication or their achievements for granted.

God bless all the families who have lost loved ones in the battles to keep America the "Shining City on a Hill", a beacon of true hope to people of all lands. And may He protect those now in service to our country so that these will be no more losses of soldiers.

Vanity, Thy Name is...

Well, I took off my acrylic nails and my hands just look, well, naked. I have kept them on for SO long, I feel very odd without them, but they were getting damaged by my garden work (even wearing rubber gloves), so until I get the garden "set", they stay off. (Probably will save enough to pay for the micro irrigation system. Photos will be up when it is complete - I am at 50% so far.)

I still need to set the boysenberry bushes and brick in that planter area. The bricks will slow the return of the "Creeping Grass from Hell", as my neighbor Lou calls it. He uses Round-up (tm) on his side of the fence; I dig that crap up. And I am doing battle with the dandelions now. Have a battle scar to prove it. I know I'll lose that war, but I won this skirmish - that dandelion is in the lawn recycle bin. I thought about putting them in the compost heap, but I don't want to chance the seeds/spores surviving and ending up in my garden.

Some fun stuff today:

Yahoo has a post for folks who think they are People Persons.
Peoples' Socialist Republik of Kalifornia did something Right yesterday. And Auhnoold says he "hears the voters' anger". Yeah, like all the way in Wash DC he heard it...lol!
And The California Commission will be cutting lawmakers' salaries by 10%. Not sure when it takes effect, but, um, probably not immediately like every other state employee LAST MONTH. (Actually, the article states that it won't happen until AT LEAST 2010.)

But, from the article on G.A.S.'s Wash trip, it's reported that Obamessiah will still be partially bailing out the PSRK:

The governor was informed that California remains eligible to receive another $8 billion in stimulus money for its Medicaid program, the one bright spot for state officials after voters on Tuesday soundly defeated five ballot measures aimed at closing California's huge budget shortfall.

LA Times reported this:

Schwarzenegger has called for cuts that would hit every corner of the state. He announced plans to lay off 5,000 of the state's 235,000 workers and has proposed slashing education by up to $5 billion, selling state properties, borrowing $2 billion from local governments and potentially reducing eligibility for healthcare programs...Worst-case scenarios also call for the release from state prisons of up to 19,000 illegal immigrants, who would face deportation, and the transfer of up to 23,000 other prisoners to county jails

If we stopped paying for the illegals' OTHER benefits, PSRK could save around $10B. That would leave us ONLY $3-5B short.

Fat chance.

Oh, and the market is still crazy.

Lettuce talk about the economy....

We ate our first lettuce from the garden yesterday. YUM! I made a kidney bean salad with red wine vinegar dressing and plpped it on the bed of lettuce with a piece of baked salmon and a hunk of fresh challah. Dr. Happy is still happy!

As for the stock market, Home Depot just got another chunk o'change from me for the micro irrigation supplies and Yahoo seems to think they are doing well (along with Hershey's, Kraft and Smith & Wesson):

On the earnings front, there are several major retailers set to post quarterly scorecards, including Dow component Home Depot and its major rival Lowe's Cos. Earlier this week, Citigroup upgraded its rating on Home Depot's stock to "buy" from "hold," saying it believes the earnings-per-share estimates for the top home improvement retailer may be conservative for 2009. Lowe's has reiterated its first-quarter outlook for profits and sales.

I have other projects planned for the lil homestead here, so I am just giving y'all a Insider Trading Tip (TM).

Have a great evening!

The Story of My Garden - So Far

In the beginning, Dr. Happy was a happy batchelor and, although GREEN is his favorite color, he was seldom so interested in keeping it green that the backyard was watered. Mainly 'cause he was working all the time and entertaining me, no small feat, of course. So, by default, his second favorite color became BROWN. Here is a little sample of what was here before me and my trusty Garden Claw (tm) moved in and got started. (Note the grapefruit tree in the right-hand corner. It will appear later in the story.)


As you can see, visually appealing in a rustic, eh, Mountain Man-kinda way. Unfortunately, not so tasty or appealing to MOI.


I have used probably 20 bags of amending soil to get the dirt back up to my exacting green thumb standards for my Precious Plants. My darling Dr. Happy still has not bought stock in Home Depot (HD). Their measley 3-4% dividend is not so exciting to him, I guess...


Although I started some of my plants in little peat starters, the tomatoes and strawberries were from the Local Nursery. Unfortunately, for Dr. Happy, they are not a publicly traded company. They do, however, give some nice discounts - sometimes. (Like this weekend is 20% off on everything! Woo-hoo!) Pictured above are the boysenberry and honeydew plants.


The beginning of all good gardens starts with a compost bin. Here is the obligatory, but not cooperating compost pile. It is just sitting there like a bump on a log.





On to the exciting part of the show: De Plants, De Plants!


This is a View of the Vegetable Garden from the Backyard looking towards the fence leading to the front yard.


Here is a pic of the garden starting in the right hand corner - the Strawberry Bed. I planted 18 plants and we've already had a batch this year. They were yummy!


The Strawberry Plants up close...


Here's some of the 14 tomato plants - again on the right hand side of the garden.


We are probably about 2 weeks away from enjoying the mixed salad greens from "The Lettuce Bed".


The Spinach and Green Onions are just starting to peek out at the sun...


There was a very nice Rose Bush under the Kitchen Window that smells so wonderful, I just let it stay there near the Spinach Bed.

Moving to the Other Side of the Gray Bricks (there is no "side-that-starts-with-L Side" in MY Victory Garden), there is a long patch of Dirt (starting at the gate and moving toward the backyard) where the cukes, cantaloupe, zuchini and scallopped squashes, watermelons and one honeydew melon plant will all live in harmony...hopefully. They will meet up with...



The Brussel Sprout plants against the fence, with four rows of Bok Choy plants between them and the bricks. Moving further into the backyard...


My salute to Iowa: "Looks Like Corn" against the fence. Hopefully, it will "taste" like corn in August.
Can't really tell, but there are short rows of beets and carrots between the corn and bricks.


And at the front of the Other Side are the Pea Plants. Between the Corn and Peas, there are green bean plants. I expect to plant the green peppers, chili peppers and something else (probably more green onions) between the bricks and peas/beans.


Moving around the yard away from the Veggies, toward the back fence, here are the Blueberry Bushes. (Yeah, I voted for Bush. Like that is such ancient history. Get over it already.) Our next door neighbor, Lou (who is older than Methuselah and even Harry F.) told me that nobody in the area has had much success growing blueberries. (They like acidic soil with a pH of around 4.5. I figure my ascebic wit should be enough to get them to produce fruit.)


Here is the Wild Rose Bush going, counter-clock-wise (screw that Right and L**t Crap!) from the Compose Heap. It will be getting a seriously needed trim next week.


Next up, is the Bird of Paradise, also in need of some pruning. Again, not so tasty, but nice to look at in the winter.


Here's the new Valencia Orange Tree. This is it's first year in our backyard. We'll see if I can manage to help it survive.


Next, there is a patch of calendula and I CANNOT get rid of them!!!), then the Ruby Red Grapefruit Tree, in honor of my mother, Ruby...Yeah, the pic is side-ways and I am not editing it just for you.

The corner is wild grass, dandelions and weeds (review the pic at the top of the post.). Continuing counter-clockwise...

...is where the boysenberries will live. They are less fussy about soil, so we should have some in the autumn.


In the center of the yard is The Fig Tree that I gave Dr. Happy for The-Goyesha-Holiday-Where-You-Give-Tokens-Of-Affection-and-if-you-are-smart-chocolate. Dr. Happy planted it. He likes it there. He is hoping it will grow large enough that he will have a shady place to sit on the grass when he gets old and retires. Yeah, like he is going to retire. Or sit. *Pfffftttt.*
*snort*


Finally, we come to the Herb Bed. So far, I have planted Lavender, Lemon Balm, Basil, Rosemany, Oregano and, ummm, something else. I'm going to plant some cilantro and something-entirely-different-from-something-else. I'm sure it will taste good when I cook with it.


Here is a closeup of the Lavender and Lemon Balm.


Last, here my Frog Friend that I just picked up today. I like him in the Herb Bed for now, but He may be moved to someplace else. Dunno where, but we'll see. He seems happy here for now.

I bought the materials to put in the Drip Irrigation system today in honor of our Israeli siblings who have to do that. (BUY HD STOCK, Dr. Happy!) Plus, The Governator is messin' with the water supply. So we need to conserve water because it will soon be getting even MORE expensive and scarce.

Soon, very soon, My Pretties, Very Soon...

Unless, the Gorebots are right (which they are not) and the oceans will be rising rapidly in the very near future. In which case, we will all be swimming to Texas or Colorado or Kansas. (Yeah, good luck with that one!)


Hope you enjoyed the Virtual Garden Tour. Next, month - I eat stuff and tell you how good it was....ROFLMTO!

Those people that lean politically to the Other Side of Right may want to STOP reading here. You are warned.

:-)