The 2012 gardening season has officially begun. This morning I put the sweet potatoes in the glasses so that would produce striplings from last year’s potatoes. This is a first. Hope it works.
Archive for February, 2012
The Potatoes That Strip
Posted in Gardening on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My Swan Song
Posted in Books on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I tried. I tracked down a copy of Swan Song, and I gave it a go. Maybe, it was because it reminded of the movie, “The Day After,” or maybe I was expecting too much in the way of writing, but I am sorry, folks, I really, really disliked the book. I found I [...]
All You See are the Backsides of Cows
Posted in Church, Religion and Life, Roman Catholicism on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The sound that you hear across the US–that muffled noise behind the righteous whinings of the American Catholic Bishops–is the sound of cattle going over the hill. Those cattle were once in the barn, but the door to the barn was left open and now those cattle are long gone. Long before Obama became the [...]
Garden Entry One for 2012
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We are still eating the sweet potatoes that I grew last summer. What a treat! Believe it or not, they are about a million times better than the ones from the super market. I have researched a method that uses the old potatoes to grow new ones. I am looking forward to seeing how that [...]
Day One, Forty-four Years Ago-”Semper Fi!”
Posted in Military on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Forty-four years ago today, February 6, 1968, I was on my first solo bus ride to my first time spending a night away from home alone in a hotel. I had joined the Marine Corps a couple of weeks earlier during one of those out-of-mind experiences I often suffer through, and February 6, 1968 was [...]
