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Movement on The Dinosaur Lords front!

No, the Official Editorial Rewrite Notes still haven’t gotten here. The good news is that there is reason to believe they are about to.

The bad news was I also got what I thought was reason to suspect the editor was going to ask me to make fundamental changes to the [...]

I get up. I get down.

So, having finally got my Exercise/Anti-Goathead Mat last weekend, I finally assayed the Turkish Getup in my backyard.

Actually, to start with, I did what Pavel calls the “Half Getup,” which means after you hoist the weight you push yourself up on one elbow. Thus:

 Only you stop halfway.

Even the Half Getup turned out to [...]

A rescue

Thanks to the good guy in the Calibers shirt who came to my rescue yesterday afternoon in the Costco parking lot. He gave me a wind-up of twine to to tie down the trunk lid (more or less) on the Giant Ass Box of Tumbler Composter I was trying to fit in my swell but [...]

My harvest

Yesterday, walking through the Vineyard on an incredible autumn afternoon after brunch at García’s at 4th and Mountain, Joe asked how my square foot garden experiment had gone.  I said I’d have to call it a success.

Wouldn't you?

That’s only a relatively small part of it – just what I picked today. I’ve [...]

How does my garden grow?

Pretty well, actually.  Especially since I started ignoring all the bloodthirsty warnings about overwatering. It’s the desert. Jeez.

Support your local vines!

Above you can see the vine-support frame I added to the SFG this afternoon. It’s made of two five-foot lengths of half-inch steel conduit for uprights, connected by a four-foot piece and a couple [...]

OMG, It’s My SFG!

So this time my TracFone decided to email the picture I took a week ago:

It's my SFG. Yeah, you know: me.

Don’t think it looks like much? It’d look like a whole lot less if I hadn’t bought some seedlings from Plants of the Southwest.

Also, appearances notwithstanding, it’s set on (mostly) bare [...]

Now it can be told

I’ve got a Square Foot Garden!

“WTF’s that?” I pretend to hear you ask.

This (photo credit Frostcall.com)

To start with, it’s the Seekrit Projekt I’ve been mystifying about these last few days. Yes, a huge anticlimax; I know. I just can’t resist tormenting Sara by tweaking her curiosity.

Basically it’s an intensive, organic, space and resource-efficient form [...]