Month: June 2006

Don’t do stupid stuff.
Names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty.
I was with a bunch of neighbors and one of the topics that came up was mayoral runners Candidate X and Candidate Y. There were supporters of Candidate Y who reported that when Candidate X and X’s minions came by, some minions were spotted taking Y’s yard signs and replacing them with X’s. Now if the yard sign change occurred without the express permission of the yard’s owner, that would be very, very wrong. Didn’t the minions think this through? If you support Y and your Y for Mayor sign is replaced by X, wouldn’t you tell your neighbors and everyone else? This would then reflect badly on X, particularly for something small and petty. Instead of taking and replacing signs on PRIVATE PROPERTY X’s minions should have done what candidate Z has done and just plaster PUBLIC property with Z’s signs. Yeah, it is easy to guess who Z is.
It is unknown if Candidates W’s or V’s signs were touched at all.

The above was what I harvested today. I thought it was time to bring in the peas, as it is getting hot. Same goes for the lettuce. I am going to have to plant corn mache for a summer salad. I picked my onions because I have a fish dish I want to cook. While I was out picking peas and salad, I got some string beans, and the three red things are strawberries that made it inside the house. Typically I eat them before coming in. Like the salad the spinach is begining to go bad, so I picked that too and I will steam it or cook it (spinach and peas and beans) and freeze them.
Anyway the above came from the below.

It is amazing that this is the garden post picking. There are still beans growing and producing. The tomatoes are flowering and I have two little baby roma tomatoes. The basil is still deciding what to do and I have to pick more Swiss Chard. I am trying to find the balance of how much I should (and need to) pick and leave something for later. I should have picked more salad.

Back when I had a car I would have car problems. I would bring my car to the shop and say my car is doing X. The worse thing was when it was doing X and failed to do X again when taken to the shop. If the guys could not observe X or problems associated with X and thus could not help me, but they would find something else wrong and charge me for that.
Tis the same problem with the hangers out on corners and under closed store awnings. You, a citizen observe X (drug dealing, public urination, whatever) and call the police. When, and if, said police show up, the offending citizens have A)left the scene, or B)already did X and are just hanging out taking advantage of their right to be in a public space.

I got the letter some time ago, but it was during the time I was applying for jobs. So it went under a pile. It is still under a pile. I got piles of piles. Lucky my neighbor has more of a follow through spirit than I. The letter was from another neighbor on the square who is organizing a multi-family yard sale June 3 from 10-2 covering possibly the 1700 & 1600 blocks of 4th and New Jersey NW and 400 blk of Warner St.
So tonight I will go into the basement and plan to sell for a really low price (think $.50 to $5 because I was just going to freecycle them) a file cabinet, some unused knives, a model for a Smart Car, USB flash drive, squash plants, etc.

Okay on the sidebar I have a PayPal button so you can buy a ticket from me for this lovely event. Tickets are $10 and I tacked on .37 for the stamp to mail it to you. This year, we promise it will not be a death march. We will not force you to see 40 odd individual yards. And this year, it is in July, not August.
Also, unless you live in the Co-op or on the 1500 blk of 3rd, which haven’t been hit yet, you should have gotten a flyer and a nomination form if you live in the Bates part of Truxton Circle (north of P St).