Archive for August, 2008

Back to the garden!

I admit that other than watering I hadn’t looked at it for a week. The garden is clearly on the wane. The corn was a bust, I picked what little there was and we ate that last weekend. My tomatoes on the counter are ripe and are in the canner as I type. I found [...]

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Carl, you are da bomb!

Being the indecisive wench that I am I went back to Best Buy yesterday and canceled the Verizon deal that came with my laptop. Then after that day of totally sucky speeds, I went to their web page and signed back up for it. They are scheduled to come next Friday.
Today Comcast came for their [...]

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Oh baby we are flying now!

That’s sarcasm in case anyone is dense that way :p Last night Frank (ComcastCares) was telling me I had no outages and my signal looked fine.
That last spike you see? That was yesterday after I finally got back online. See the crap following that? Yep, that’s since then with my perfectly fine signal, my [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

My bloody internet

Sunday night I was speeding along as per usual lately at a whopping 293kb’s download speed and 333kb’s upload speed. Do you have any idea how long it takes a page to load at that speed? I sure don’t because I finally gave up on every page I tried.
That made me determined to finally [...]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

More garden ramblings

I have pole beans growing everywhere! For all of that plant, I picked a small amount of beans a few days ago and promptly made potato soup like my mom used to make. Potatoes, fresh green beans, onions, milk, butter, salt and pepper. I love that soup and it’s a good thing because I just [...]

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Coming back to life

I believe I am, after all this time, indeed coming back to life. I thought I was too far down to ever climb back out of that hole. Wow am I thankful I was wrong. It’s a terrible thing when all you feel is pain and joy is not even a distant memory. Okay, enough [...]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Blogging Thoughts (and other things)

Keeping up with all the blogs and things I’ve added to Google Reader is a daunting task. I don’t really know how people handle all the areas of their life. I go in spurts, working on the website to the exclusion of all else, reading crime boards, I think I don’t multi-task very well. I [...]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

My how-to garden tips

I feel like practically an expert by now. Last year I planted a few plants in very bad clay soil. This year I had a real garden spot and it’s the first time in my life that I have planted a real garden. So here is what I’ve learned.

There are such things as pole beans.
If [...]

Saturday, August 16th, 2008