A Night in the Little Apple

Again I greet my loyal readers and subsequently the emptyness of the late afternoon on the occasion of my work-related exile to a hotel room.  This one should be nice, but the elevator is geologically slow, and the whole place feels...old.  I don't like old.

Garden:

Hardly any of the latest seeds I put in the ground have taken off.  I see no little leaves poking through the dirt, and that drives me crazy.  Plus one of our tomato plants is struggling.  Right now we have 11 cabbage/broccoli, 48 onions, 4 tomatoes, 3 cucumbers, 4 cilantro, 4 rosemary, 4 thyme, 6 sweet corn, 6 green pepper, 3 summer squash (yellow), another 20 or so thyme, 10 strawberries, 20 green-bean and peas and probably 40-ish spinach plants.  But only the spinach, cabbage, and strawberries are really doing well.  I guess the peas that have come up look ok.

The thing is, I can't spend enough time in the yard/garden.  There's no limit to the amount of time I want to spend out there.  Apparently, for me, giving up means gardening.

Death to the EverGreens:

You know the little evergreen 'shrubs' that so many people have in their front yard?  On Monday I had the supreme satisfaction of ripping mine out with my bare hands.  Admittedly, my hands were a little cut up by the first two, so I used gloves on the last three, but the point remains:  My shrubbery is no more!

Thank god.  In place of the shrubs we now have an assortment of native flowers and grasses.  Big bluestem, liatris, coneflowers, salvias, brown-eyed susans, spiderwort.  We've also got an assortment of interesting rocks I've found over the past year and a half all over Kansas.  I want this stuff to look amazing.  I can't wait for 7 foot tall flowers next to my front door.

Denver-Dallas:

Boy, that stepped up a notch didn't it?  Wow.  

Food: 

Bison t-bone steak.  Manicotti.  Good times...good times...

Weight Loss:

Over halfway there....over halfway there...over halfway there....gotta stay focused.  Must have Kindle....