What I did

Transplanted two tomatoes. Legend & Taxi varieties.  Transplanted Tarragon. Washed windows about 700 SF all in the back of the house.  Watered blueberries. Made bread for John Forrester. Went to Dialectical behavior Rx.

Made maps of blue berry varieties in the back yard cage and the side yard cage.

Did not practice violin, but did scan and clone key signatures of Rhapsody in Blue.  Gershwin or whomever omitted them for the beginning of each line of music.

For tomorrow,
tx last tomato.  call for bark
practice violin
Chinese lesson.
1430 call Andover Archery

Smaller bread, bake often and fresher.

Yesterday (Monday), I made a 450 gm (flour weight) loaf of bread for the Harriers. Still had part of a 450 that I'd baked Sunday. The bread is lasting too long, if I don't eat it every meal.

Sunday p.m. I arrived at a solution: make smaller loaves and bake more frequently for fresher bread. I mixed a 250 gm loaf and baked it today--20 min covered, 15 min uncovered--gave it to John Forrester next door. Monday I mixed a 225 for baking tomorrow. Today I mixed another 250 for baking Thursday.

Toenail fungus

talking to Jeff Freed yest.  laughing about my ugly toenails. Lydia overheard, looked at one toenail and immediately said "fungal infection."  Said Peoplespharmacy.com recommends soaking in Listerine b.i.d. and rubbing with vics vaporub for a few months.  I got the Listerine in both brand and Walmart generic form (brand for the right foot, generic for the left. As for the Vaporub, I already have Tiger Balm generic which I'll use til I get back to store.  Soaked my toes last p.m.   I sanded down some toenails using the rotary sander & resoaked them this a.m.

Tiger balm is nice for making my toes tingle.  Fungus is getting tingled to death?

Socks

In an odd moment while looking at my own socks (below) I gave in to my curiosity re: how many stitches they'd have. At completion, at 56 st/row & 11 rows per inch and with 5" of leg above the heel flap & an 11" foot, the pair will have 19,712 stitches (give or take a thousand). At a rate of 1 stitch every 4.6 seconds (112 stitches timed today for this calculation), which includes sliding stitches along the cables, etc. it takes 25.2 hours to complete. That doesn't include knitting a gauge patch nor the time to close the toes.  Still fun to do something quasi-mindless while listening to radio, books on tape, etc.

With that in mind, my socks shouldn't be simply a testament to whether I'm smart enough to knit a sock, but rather something more of a personal statement.

Knitting socks

ew. I just did the math. at 8 st/inch and 11 rows per inch, for my feet, a pair of socks will have roughly 26,700 stitches(+/- a thousand).
Gotta stop this insanity.

Green Tomatoes

Fried Green tomatoes. Who thought to take these fruits early and cook them like that? rather like eating hot pickles. good but exhaust system in kitchen does not quite get all the smoke out.

maybe better in noodle soup.

10 days in Las Vegas

Gave my mom a hug and promptly received her upper respiratory virus. Slept on the nearly rock hard matttress upstairs with the dusty smelling pillows, which I covered with a freshly laundered towel the 2nd night.

Saw Jennifer on the 2nd night and boys. All well.

Ate at the buffet at the Bellagio on Thanksgiving Day.
While staying with my mom, I heard someone knocking on the door--not the front door, but the bathroom door where mom was taking a shower. The lock button had gotten stuck and she was locked in. I slipped a screwdriver under the door--she removed the doorknob and I was able to draw the mechanism back to allow her exit. The next day we replaced the bathroom door knobs.

Then a malfunctioning casement window crank called for removal.  The phone at Eagle windows in Vegas gave "busy" signal. The store itself was unoccupied with just a table inside. Found the crank online & ordered it. Tom will install.

Repaired broken plastic lock handles for the screen doors. Tom had a stick of poplar, from which I'd cut small blocks and screwed to the locks.

Leaking shower in mom's bathroom. Pulled half the cartridge out, the rest came out with the help of long nose pliers I bought.  Plumber's supply wasn't too helpful--said the cartridges cost 30-40$. Finally, got smart and bought the cartridge at Lowe's for $9. Huge difference between plumber supply store & Lowes prices.

Getting meat fever. Every meal has meat in one dish or more. Great but still, not the way I eat.