Stuff and such (with pictures)
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dreamflowerWell, I gave up on Photobucket, and tried Flickr for my pics. I had completely forgotten that I had an account there from back when I was part of Fandom 'n' Stitches quilt project. (Hope I can finish that sometime.)
So, a few pics behind the cut. A couple of pet pics and some garden spam:
Miss Belladonna Took trying to catch some sunshine on the front porch:
Sophie and the DH on the front porch; Sophie looks more like a shadow dog. When her mouth is not open and her tongue is not out, she's almost invisible. If she is sitting on one of our black throws, she IS invisible:
My salad garden in the trough bed:
(Left to right--radishes, lettuce, spinach, green onions and a spot where I planted some more spinach that has not yet sprouted.) We haven't had to buy salad for almost two weeks--and I'm just harvesting so far from these few rows. I just cut the outer leaves off for the spinach and lettuce. However, we have now finished our mature radishes, and must wait about two or three weeks for more. I've since harvested and replanted the green onions in this picture, but I have more onions already growing in some of my other beds.
My very FIRST STRAWBERRY EVER!
This was an old fountain, we filled with soil and planted with three strawberry plants. It was very tiny, about the size of my thumbnail. We harvested it and cut it in half for our salad that evening.
(This morning while watering, I saw a few teensy green ones beginning to form, so I may have a few more in a week or so.)
Other garden successes so far: the Kentucky Wonder pole beans have grown considerably, though not yet big enough to begin climbing yet; my bush beans that I planted only a few days ago are already about an inch and a half high (I tried soaking the bean seeds in warm water for a couple of hours before I planted to speed germination, and it appears to have worked); my eggplants have germinated as well, although the sweet pepper I planted the same day has not, so far. Also, the globe artichokes we planted in the front yard are alive and growing--they had wilted almost all the way to the ground and looked pretty much dead right after we planted, but they've since perked. No idea yet if the Jerusalem artichokes we planted in the west side yard are doing anything, since I don't go on that side. (The DH told me we have a snake over there sometimes.)
Yesterday, the DH and I had errands to run in Stillwater. We also had learned that the library at OSU is available to the general public so long as you have a state-issued photo ID (ie, a driver's license), and we decided to take a look. It was quite an adventure trying to find a close parking space. There was none; in fact, due to some roads being blocked off because of nearby construction it was hard to get anywhere near. We finally found a space nearly two blocks away, but a kind passerby showed us a short cut, and assured us we could walk on the grass to take a more direct route. It was still a long walk for old fogies like us.
You know, there are an awful lot of young people walking around on a college campus (imagine that! ;-D), but they were all very nice about giving us directions. The library is immense, and I didn't get to explore the book stacks nearly as much as I would have liked to. I only took four books, as I was uncertain if there were check-out restrictions, and it was only our first visit. Imagine my delight when I found out that I can have them for a MONTH, instead of two weeks, before having to either renew or turn in. Plus the check-out limit is 25 books!
A couple of cute encounters with the young 'uns on campus. While waiting for the elevator, a girl was also waiting, and she had on a T-shirt that said "Talk Nerdy to Me". I grinned at her and said "Sindarin". She blinked at me, and I pointed to her shirt, and said, "That was the nerdiest thing I could think of." She still looked a bit puzzled, and I said "Elvish". "Ah!" the light dawned, and we had a very brief Tolkien conversation before she got off at her floor.
And then at the check-out counter, there were three little girls (okay, they were probably at least 18, but to me that's little girls) trying to help us with getting our courtesy cards set up, and we were talking a little as they worked. I was admiring the building and its old-fashioned furniture and woodwork. I asked if they still had their card catalog cases (The Stillwater Public Library has theirs, though it's empty, it makes a handy place to set things down on or display books on top of.)
One of the girls asked "What's a card catalog?"
I laughed and shook my head, and was about to answer, when one of the other girls said "Oh, it's what they used way back before computers. It was these little index cards with all the books on them."
"Each card had the book information," I said.
The girl who actually knew what it was, (I'm assuming she may have been a library major) nodded and said "It had the call number and information about the book."
"And," I said, "there were three cards for every book--each book was filed three times, under title, author or subject."
The other two girls are looking at us like we are nuts or something.
I laughed and said "When I think of all the hours of high school English I wasted learning how to use the card catalog! But at least the Dewey Decimal System still works."
(And of course, it wasn't really a waste to learn the card catalog system, but I'm not sure how diligent I would have been if I'd known it would be obsolete twenty years after I graduated, LOL!)
Anyway, I will be really excited to go back and explore that library in another month when the books are due and we have more time to spend. (And won't have to waste 45 minutes looking for a parking space.)
We stopped at Sonic on the way back and got cherry vanilla Diet Cokes for half price, and then drove the back way to Drumright (it's on the other side of Cushing, to pick up our son from the church where he'd been painting the basement for his community service) and then it was nearly six when we got home, so I skipped the knitting circle and stayed home. Made spaghetti for supper, and watched DWTS, which was really good last night. Ginger Zee scored the first perfect 10s of the season for a wonderful waltz and then Page VanZant also got perfect 10s for her number with Mark Ballas.
Such a good season this year!
So, a few pics behind the cut. A couple of pet pics and some garden spam:
Miss Belladonna Took trying to catch some sunshine on the front porch:
Sophie and the DH on the front porch; Sophie looks more like a shadow dog. When her mouth is not open and her tongue is not out, she's almost invisible. If she is sitting on one of our black throws, she IS invisible:
My salad garden in the trough bed:
(Left to right--radishes, lettuce, spinach, green onions and a spot where I planted some more spinach that has not yet sprouted.) We haven't had to buy salad for almost two weeks--and I'm just harvesting so far from these few rows. I just cut the outer leaves off for the spinach and lettuce. However, we have now finished our mature radishes, and must wait about two or three weeks for more. I've since harvested and replanted the green onions in this picture, but I have more onions already growing in some of my other beds.
My very FIRST STRAWBERRY EVER!
This was an old fountain, we filled with soil and planted with three strawberry plants. It was very tiny, about the size of my thumbnail. We harvested it and cut it in half for our salad that evening.
(This morning while watering, I saw a few teensy green ones beginning to form, so I may have a few more in a week or so.)
Other garden successes so far: the Kentucky Wonder pole beans have grown considerably, though not yet big enough to begin climbing yet; my bush beans that I planted only a few days ago are already about an inch and a half high (I tried soaking the bean seeds in warm water for a couple of hours before I planted to speed germination, and it appears to have worked); my eggplants have germinated as well, although the sweet pepper I planted the same day has not, so far. Also, the globe artichokes we planted in the front yard are alive and growing--they had wilted almost all the way to the ground and looked pretty much dead right after we planted, but they've since perked. No idea yet if the Jerusalem artichokes we planted in the west side yard are doing anything, since I don't go on that side. (The DH told me we have a snake over there sometimes.)
Yesterday, the DH and I had errands to run in Stillwater. We also had learned that the library at OSU is available to the general public so long as you have a state-issued photo ID (ie, a driver's license), and we decided to take a look. It was quite an adventure trying to find a close parking space. There was none; in fact, due to some roads being blocked off because of nearby construction it was hard to get anywhere near. We finally found a space nearly two blocks away, but a kind passerby showed us a short cut, and assured us we could walk on the grass to take a more direct route. It was still a long walk for old fogies like us.
You know, there are an awful lot of young people walking around on a college campus (imagine that! ;-D), but they were all very nice about giving us directions. The library is immense, and I didn't get to explore the book stacks nearly as much as I would have liked to. I only took four books, as I was uncertain if there were check-out restrictions, and it was only our first visit. Imagine my delight when I found out that I can have them for a MONTH, instead of two weeks, before having to either renew or turn in. Plus the check-out limit is 25 books!
A couple of cute encounters with the young 'uns on campus. While waiting for the elevator, a girl was also waiting, and she had on a T-shirt that said "Talk Nerdy to Me". I grinned at her and said "Sindarin". She blinked at me, and I pointed to her shirt, and said, "That was the nerdiest thing I could think of." She still looked a bit puzzled, and I said "Elvish". "Ah!" the light dawned, and we had a very brief Tolkien conversation before she got off at her floor.
And then at the check-out counter, there were three little girls (okay, they were probably at least 18, but to me that's little girls) trying to help us with getting our courtesy cards set up, and we were talking a little as they worked. I was admiring the building and its old-fashioned furniture and woodwork. I asked if they still had their card catalog cases (The Stillwater Public Library has theirs, though it's empty, it makes a handy place to set things down on or display books on top of.)
One of the girls asked "What's a card catalog?"
I laughed and shook my head, and was about to answer, when one of the other girls said "Oh, it's what they used way back before computers. It was these little index cards with all the books on them."
"Each card had the book information," I said.
The girl who actually knew what it was, (I'm assuming she may have been a library major) nodded and said "It had the call number and information about the book."
"And," I said, "there were three cards for every book--each book was filed three times, under title, author or subject."
The other two girls are looking at us like we are nuts or something.
I laughed and said "When I think of all the hours of high school English I wasted learning how to use the card catalog! But at least the Dewey Decimal System still works."
(And of course, it wasn't really a waste to learn the card catalog system, but I'm not sure how diligent I would have been if I'd known it would be obsolete twenty years after I graduated, LOL!)
Anyway, I will be really excited to go back and explore that library in another month when the books are due and we have more time to spend. (And won't have to waste 45 minutes looking for a parking space.)
We stopped at Sonic on the way back and got cherry vanilla Diet Cokes for half price, and then drove the back way to Drumright (it's on the other side of Cushing, to pick up our son from the church where he'd been painting the basement for his community service) and then it was nearly six when we got home, so I skipped the knitting circle and stayed home. Made spaghetti for supper, and watched DWTS, which was really good last night. Ginger Zee scored the first perfect 10s of the season for a wonderful waltz and then Page VanZant also got perfect 10s for her number with Mark Ballas.
Such a good season this year!
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Date: 2016-05-03 03:40 pm (UTC)We haven't had to buy salad for almost two weeks
That's so wonderful. I love hearing about your garden(s) and pets and
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Date: 2016-05-03 04:16 pm (UTC)Nerdspeak is fun. So is teasing college kids!
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Date: 2016-05-03 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-03 04:24 pm (UTC)The library is a great find! I had no idea that we could use it. Apparently it's not publicized much, as the little girls who processed us said that ours were the first courtesy cards they had ever done.
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Date: 2016-05-03 06:26 pm (UTC)What a lovely garden you having going.
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Date: 2016-05-04 01:34 am (UTC)We are pleased so far. I can't wait to get the tomatoes in!
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Date: 2016-05-03 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-05-03 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-04 01:55 am (UTC)Sophie's a mixed breed. She's got some terrier and some dachshund, and probably some other things too. She's a pound puppy, as nearly all our dogs have been.
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Date: 2016-05-04 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-04 03:39 pm (UTC)I did have a little trouble with Flickr too, as it kept telling me to retry with one of the pics, but I finally managed to get it. It certainly was not as slow or annoying as Photobucket!