From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Another Shovelful of Dirt on the Ol’ Grave: 2009 Tomato Crop a Total Failure

April 29, 2009

I planted more than 300 tomato plants this March. Either 360 or 432 (5 or 6 flats) I can’t remember which. I don’t know what I would have done with 432 tomato plants, much less the fruit of 432 plants which could conceivably have borne some 8000 tomatoes if from each plant I picked 20, [...]

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Spring Fever

April 27, 2009

Some people open their windows and let a breeze in and get out the mop and dust sauce and clean. I get out my shovel. I’ve been holding my breath through the longest hardest coldest winter in recent memory for spring to break so long that it’s not a season anymore it’s a cure. I [...]

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Adult Tastes

April 17, 2009

We stopped drinkin’ Tuesday. We made the most of the 3 days’ inter-egg-num (well, I did) but Tuesday we woke up glassy-eyed and twitchy and that was that. Party over man. I hadn’t before today but finally seriously questioned the wisdom in sympathy sobriety. What’s the point of the both us us suffering? She didn’t [...]

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