I haven’t had time for much reading lately, and what time I do find should probably be spent pulling weeds. Anyway, I was at the library on Friday and picked up two books. The first one that I’m about half way through now is Guerilla Gardening: A Manualfesto by David Tracey. So far its [...]
Archive for June, 2009
15 Jun
New Music That I Love
I’m a frequent listener of CBC radio 1 and 2 and noticed that I was hearing songs by Canadian artist Joel Plaskett quite often. I also quite enjoyed them. I stopped in at HMV the other day and picked up two of his discs “Three” and “LaDeDa”. I love his sound and his wide variety [...]
15 Jun
And then there was [no] light
At the end of May we headed up to a buddy’s wedding in Alberta. It was a nice get away and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of my university friends again. While we were away we entrusted our house to a friend of ours to look after. She is great with the cats and the [...]
14 Jun
Horseradish… part II
Well, my overpriced, in-your-face christian local garden centre has ripped me off. In April I bought two bags of asparagus Jersey Knight crowns as well as a bag of horseradish roots. As of June 13 I am without any signs of life from these packages. I love horseradish. I don’t eat it a lot [...]
2 Jun
Frost
I can’t believe this. June 1 and an overnight frost. It got down to -2. I did an emergency potato hilling and mined the recycling bin for makeshift cloches for my tomatoes and my just planted zucchini. The corn is still taking its sweet time to germinate so I left them uncovered. Good practice, [...]
