It's been a while

But I'm still around. I never did get around to taking pics of the garden. It did really well for a while, then something happened to the tomatoes. Not sure if I had blight or just odd soil or if they were too dry, but they did appear to have some form of blight from the dry hard spots on the stems. Funny thing is, not that it's gotten cooler and we've had quite a bit of rain, the garden is resurrecting itself. The lettuce managed to re-seed itself, my marigolds that I planted solely for pest control look fabulous as Fall decorations, and the tomatoes, including 2 volunteers that sprang from the Whole Foods enriched compost, are actually producing again. I'm contemplating planting a late crop of peas to see what they'd do in this cooler weather.

Life in general was odd for a while. The library finally "reduced in force" a number of my coworkers and it made work very stressful. Also made me contemplate looking for a job elsewhere, but I think I'll hang in for a while. Things are settling down and I have a decent job with decent hours and decent money so I could be somewhere worse.

I do need to do something tho... have that "what's next" feeling and wondering what to do with myself. I had been mountain biking regularly until the "Great Flood of '09" came and drowned Yellow River trails. Luckily, Creekside has reopened but between the weather (raining on weekends) and my getting a cold twice in two months, I haven't been on the bike in a while. I am anxiously awaiting our trip down to Indian Springs next weekend and hope the weather holds for lots of riding at Dauset.