Nancy is working on a particularly intricate quilt. It’s made of 6†blocks each comprised of multiple little pieces -several of the blocks have 60+ small pieces. She’s such a perfectionist that on a couple of them, she’s ended up pulling them all apart several times to get them just right. I never spot any of the flaws but she sure sees them. That’s going on simultaneously with created the latest halloween costume for Grace. She wants to be Cinderella this year. Nancy has always wanted to do Snow White but …………………..
A few posts back I mentioned the garden row that produced no goodies. The row included the sweet potatoes, tomatoberry, and ghost peppers. After yanking the tomato bush, I decided to throw some fertilizer around the peppers as a desperation move. Two weeks later, I have peppers, lots and lots of little green peppers and half a dozen or so red ones. I can’t say whether or not the fertilizer had anything at all to do with it but it sure seems like there must be some relationship. The greens ones are colored very lightly and really don’t stand out so perhaps I’ve just been missing them. I’ve got a few people on the list to try them so I picked a few of the red ghost peppers intending to give them to John, the source of the original seeds. Next time, I’ll use gloves or be extremely careful not to touch them during the harvesting. I didn’t think much about it when I touched my lips about a half hour later and got just the slightest hint of how hot they are. I also touched an eye lid and got an instant reaction. I can’t imagine what these bad boys must be like to eat. I’m going to let nature takes it’s course on these and distribute the crop to all those I promised to supply but don’t plan to replant the crop. Maybe they’re what’s keeping the bears out of the garden.
After two wins against ho hum opponents, still no real read on the Gators. I do like that they went to the third string in the fourth quarter but still worried about the secondary. I do feel really good about UCF. They trounced Boston College, certainly not a power house but an ACC team nonetheless.
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In a bit of a quandary – Al Gore just trashed Obama because Barack had the gaul to kill an EPA regulation “to save jobsâ€. If Gore is upset it must have been a great move by the pres. I applaud Obama’s move but think he’s going to have trouble promoting (non-existent) green jobs when he acknowledged that killing fossil fuels kills (real) jobs. A really smart O’bama would turn on the oil/gas/shale floodgates and get the Canadian-Gulf pipeline underway at same time he introduces his “job†bill. That way there will really be job growth and he can say his program is working. Secondarily, oil prices will drop almost immediately – not because there is literally more oil on the market, but because the world will know it’s coming. If gas prices drop and jobs are created, guess who will get the credit. Let Pelosi and Gore raise hell about it – that will help O’bama even more. Don’t forget, gas was at $1.80/gallon when he took office and one of the first things his administration tried to do was pass a carbon tax that would have hit the gas prices immediately and hard. I honestly don’t think he understood the relationship between gas prices and the overall economy at that time. Hopefully he has a better handle on it now.
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