Category: x-personal

Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..

Strawberries!

Gillian and Jody and I went picking this morning before the day’s heat rolled in. Unfortunately, the cold summer and the long periods of rain have left for a really lackluster crop. The field looked full of ripe red berries, but up close there was a lot of rotten and split-open fruit. We got there right before opening, and some guy joined us in the fields shortly after we got our start, but he left after a few minutes. The woman in charge of the tent called out, asking if we were doing okay because they guy had left complaining there weren’t any berries out there.
These weren’t great berries, but I doubt that anyone has great berries; not around here anyways. I guess some people are just really picky.
Anyways, got home, washed, made Gill a strawberry milkshake while she got on her first meeting, and spent a few hours hulling berries and freezing in quart bags. We’re foregoing a pie this time so we can have frozen berries over the course of the year.

Link dump

Unreality – The Most Badass Alphabet Ever |:

Also the most likely to never get turned into a real book

then and now photos of people aging : theCHIVE:

Really bizarre

The Life and Death of Guitar Hero – Xbox 360 Feature at IGN:

At least I finally got a guitar for my Wii

Fearing the Phase-Out of Incandescent Bulbs – NYTimes.com:

I can’t even begin to count how often I had to explain the new law to customers when I still worked at the hardware store.

Blown Away*

Big windstorm last night. Knocked out power this morning, blew all the numbers off the gas station sign across the street, and sent some of our gardening tools halfway across the lawn.

* a.k.a. Gone With the Wind