Todays dones

done:
transplanted last tomato.  covered soil around the tarragon with black plastic
called for bark--10 yards received & paid for
washed library windows, greenhouse windows, master BR windows
shampooed carpet in LR
1430 called Andover Archery--bought 25" riser, cushion plunger, 30# limbs, bowstring.
shot two arrows instinctively at a stick in the back lawn
revised the Sunshine Blue blueberry beds on side of house
watered the blueberries on the side and back of house
Backpacked for 45 min
bought basil @Top Foods
Got a pizza
picked up cardboard @ Walmart for garden.


read WSJ


not done yet, but
for tomorrow first thing after breakfast, etc:
practice violin
Chinese lesson.
transplant basil plant into box.
then plan gate for blueberry cage on side of house.  gate space 67.5" H X 40" W 
maybe use mending plates to construct gate?

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.