Drip System Gardening

Well, another adventure at gardening. Last year it was too much fertilizer while under an outdoor watering ban.

This year Hubby decided to do a drip irrigation garden. This system is used all over Israel. The dessert is literally blooming as a result of this system. So, we thought perhaps it might work well for us. The process is slow, but we think it will be well worth the effort.

The drip pipe (plastic tubing) has to be put down first, it's on the far right row uncovered. Then the drip tube is covered with the black mesh held down with long metal stables pushed into the ground. The planting process is more difficult, because the mesh has to be cut, then you dig the holes for the plants. The greenbean planting was different. We punched holes in the mesh, then dropped the seed into the hole.

We are looking forward to eating all the delicious, fresh veggies. I can't wait for that first tomato sandwich! Better than steak! We might even buy a pound of bacon for BLT's. You really don't need the B for a great sandwich just the T.

First Fishing Event of 08

Things were a bit boring on our first fishing trip to Stone Mountain since the fish weren't biting! However, I've included some photos of some things that made the trip enjoyable.

There are eight turtles on the log. You can't see one of them in the photo, but he's there. Later we saw ten on one log.

One lone goose egg on a dock.

Whale of a fish, huh! Then there is the old mill. This is on one of the walking trails around the mountain.

It was a beautiful day to be outside and being on the water made it better. Maybe next time we'll catch some fish bigger than bait.

The Lovell Sisters

Friday afternoon we drove down to Macon, GA to a concert at the historic Douglass Theatre featuring the Lovell Sisters from Calhoun, Georgia. At the age of five all of these young ladies started taking classical violin and piano. They sang in their church choir and were members of string quartets and youth symphonies. They now play a mix of country, folk and contemporary acoustic music. These girls are so talented. They have traveled over 24 states and overseas. They won NPR's "Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor" National Teen Talent Competition in 2005 and have an album, "When Forever Rolls Around". We bought one of their albums and they all three autographed it. During the intermission they all came out into the lobby and met everyone.

Check out their website at: www.lovellsisters.band.com

Jessica, the oldest sister plays the fiddle, Megan the middle sister plays the dobro and Rebecca, youngest plays the tar out of the mandola, guitar and banjo. They had two other musicians playing with them, Matt Wingate played guitar and was awesome and Andy Nall played the electric bass.

If you ever have an opportunity to see The Lovell Sisters in concert don't miss them.

This is NOT good!!!!

I hurried home after spending the say with my Mom taking her to two medical appointments and two cemetaries (she wants to keep flowers on my Dad's burial plot and her brother's), and to the grocery store. We med Hubby at Chick-fil-A for lunch and while we were dining some bird tried to buy our vehcile (they put a deposit right on the windshield and side window).

As soon as I arrived home I was going to wash the poop off the windows, UNTIL said snake was spotted right under the outside faucet where the water hose is connected. There was no way on God's green earth was I going to put my hand anywhere close to that snake to turn on the water, so naturally I screamed for Hubby. He was on the phone, how surprising, and was rather irritated that I was disturbing his conversation. I found a hatchet out by the wood pile and made him kill the snake. I don't have any idea what kind it is, but as far as I'm concerned it might as well be a rattlesnake. A snake, is a snake, is a snake. This is the DEAD snake, the ONLY good kind. AND this is the first real warm day we have had. Do you think I'm going to ever plunder around in the dark out there around that water faucet again? NO WAY! I'm just saying.

Sorry about the blood, I didn't realize snakes had blood.

This is a test to see if I can get photos to post. It worked when I view my blog, but all I can see is this Russian looking stuff, rather than photos? In this case, I'm adding another photo, so you will have the before, during and after photos of the theater project. Just read the narrative below. The bottom photo is the before, the top photo is the during and the middle photo is the finished product. :-)

ALMOST COMPLETED SOON I HOPE!

For many years we had a hobby that turned into a small business for us, a photography business. Hubby was very good at this, but it was hard work. We photographed children, weddings, families and small commercial jobs. We did very well, but I hated the weddings. I used to have nightmares about them. They were extremely stressful (you only get one shot at the job). It's not like you can go back and reshoot if the photos don't turn out well. I did an analysis of the hours and net profit and we could have worked at McDonald's and made about the same amount of money without the stress. So, when Hubby was downed sized (nice way of saying "you are fired") we started another business in order to make a living and could not maintain both businesses. We made a decision to sell the photo equipment and we had lots of it. We managed to sell most of the professional equipment, but in exchange for the photo studio that was in the attic, we put in a theater. I must admit the theater is so much more fun.

Well, the treadmill was behind the theater screen and Hubby decided to sell the treadmill. The entire screen had to be moved in order to move the treadmill. It was a big mess. I don't get it. Hubby starts projects, but he always manages to drag me into them, kicking and screaming, I might add. I had the "pleasure" of figuring out what type of materials we needed to use to close in the screen. We made a couple of trips to the fabric store, but I finally decided that burlap might work. That would allow the sound to come through the fabric, but give a finished look above and beside the screen. It took me several hours to attach the burlap to the frame Hubby had build, but I did it and he was extremely pleased. It's a good thing, because he was going to have the pleasure of figuring out what was going to be put up.

All the junk has been cleaned out from behind the screen, all the dust bunnies have been caged and we have a finished product. The only thing Hubby want to do is build a shelf that will accommodate the amp the DVD player AND store all the DVD's we have collected. I want to buy a small bookcase, but NOOOOOO, he's going to build one. He actually is a very good carpenter, but I want this project finished NOW! He's working on the bookcase. I suppose that is best, because he can make it just the right height and width to fit the corner where it will be used. However, I think that's going to require a new connection from the projector to the DVD player. One thing always calls for another. I've attempted to add photos, but I keep getting this Russian looking stuff at the top of the page. I give up. I'll just post the narrative.