Back to gardening

The box is 8' x 4' x 9" deep. Bottom left corner and two feet to the right, or half way to the right has 45 green onions planted. This space will hold in the future, two types of tomatoes, mixture of lettuce, banana peppers, radishes - red and white,and a bush type cuccumber or two. Built the frame Saturday, leveled it by digging around the edges on Sunday and put 20 - 40# bags of top soil and 3 - 40# bags of manure in today along with the onions. For recognition, Gene helped Saturday and it was all Cindy and myself today.

Painting continues

Peach Champagne is what it is called. Thickest paint I have ever applied. No drip, wouldn't even flow back into the container. Last weekends job.

Things to come

The battery is running short on the laptop so there won't be much here. Look for the square foot raised garden section. Put the frame together today with the help of Gene. Calling for rain the next couple of days. Onion sets are in the dark basement waiting to be planted. Planning on painting of second bedroom.

Flood of 2008

We have had rain. This is a set of pictures of the secondary pond across the road and the pond nearest the house. In the middle of the closest pond I would estimate the depth of 10 to 12 feet. I really don't have any idea about the other one but I could guess the same. The second picture is looking up the other way or west of picture number 1. The overall length of the pond is 300 yards +. You can see where the grass turned brown from the muddy water due to the errosion of the ground. The culvert support is approx. 2 foot tall and it was submerged. It took two days for the ponds to deminish enough for the sump pump to quit running almost non-stop. At the height of the water the pump would only shut down for 2 to 4 seconds and start up again and run for a long time trying to keep up. Somewhere in an e-mail to the city of Kettering there are exact numbers. First time it happened was the rains before the Blizzard -No -Blizzard and then somewhat after the snows melted. Thought the worst was over until the rains came. We are fortunate, no sewer and no water in the basement. The pump kept up and the backup system never had to run, however, I did run it the make sure the pump was sufficient enough to keep up if needed. Next thing I need to do is contact the pump manufacture and find out what the true duty cycle of their pump is so that I know if we have shortened the life span of the pump and if there should be a spare on the shelf. I would not want to rely on the back up pump to be so reliable and to function under these conditions.

Calling Dr. Phil

Now I know why there has been a report whimpering sound coming from a certain garage in Beavercreek, OH. It is that of a lonely 1987 Corvette. It has an identity issue. As you can see, it doesn't know whether it is a former Stingray (Sting-Ray), a Prancing Horse from Italy are a raging Bull from Italy. Hopefully we won't see stars on it and it think it's from Japan. Poor thing, anyone have the good doctors number?

Wanna be

My buddy Gene saw a F430 Ferrari in Canada at one of the Indian reservation casinos and fell in love. I do believe he has taken it further than I have with the wanna be thing. I might say my little Miata is a Porsche wanna be but I don't believe I have put a label on it just yet. He can't deny it, the car has his name all over the front of it. I even recognize the L-98 decals he put on this past summer. If he drops a 12 cylinder in it then I know he went over the edge. He really has a nice Vette. He is really very proud of it. I heard through the grape vine that the car was crying in the garage at night because its feelings were hurt. Gene, shark gills and prancing horses don't go together. Sharks eat horses, just ask the boys on the ALMS circuit. Just wait until the Blue Devil takes on Ferrari, the ZO-6 is hard enough on the horse and the Blue Devil is still less than half the cost.

A snowy day project

Well, we have the blizzard so we needed a project. Since they were kind enough to give us a warning we were able to go and get the material (paint) needed to paint Cindy's office. She matched the color in the drapes real well as you can see. Since it is snowing it is nothing but fitting that the shelf sitters go up, all 18 snowmen.