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[Gary A.]

Good morning, Gary.

Good Morning Charlie.

 

[Gary A.]

"I now know about global warming from earth science and the different rocks that are important to society. Like who knew rocks would be something major on earth. Did you know?"

I think you're stuttering ...

 

[Gary A.]

Gary A, there is NO WAY I could handle your level of activity pre-coffee.
Some mornings, even the effort to somehow get from the bed to the coffee maker seems like more than I can do without coffee.

When I wake ... I'm good to go ... like instantly ... part of my survival skills.

 

[Gary A.]

But it's still cloudy and going to rain off and on all day...ugh

This should be another perfect day. I love LA.

As long as you don't actually have to drive anywhere. You make faster progress on the parking lots than on the highways.

Yeah traffic sucks.

 

[Gary A.]

I like turtles.

LOL ... I have three turtles.

 

[Gary A.]

NEWSFLASH

your postings are too long

and

oh yeah, I don't drink coffee either

That's because you're too busy napping.

 

[Gary A.]

Ever since I read that coffee book, I've wanted to buy green beans and roast them myself.

As in green coffee beans. I did a story on coffee, they flew me to Jamaica, Costa Rica and Sumatra.

 

[Gary A.]

And by "help me grown my own food" I mean "grow the food for me."

LOL ... we have maybe 16 different tomatoes, spinaches, lettuces, kales, arugula, cabbage, berries (straw, blue, black, rasp), peppers (tons), cucumbers, artichoke, squashes, melons, grapes (Thompson, Ruby, Chardonnay, Zin, Cab, Pinot Noir), apples, avocados, oranges (Naval, Mandarin, Valencia), Lemon (Meyers), Lime (Mexican), Pomegranate, Persimmon, et al.

Sounds heavenly! And totally impossible for me to ever do on my own.

Why, most of my tomatoes are in pots.

 

[Gary A.]

I'll have to make up for it next year with a bigger than usual garden.

My garden works all year round.

 

[Gary A.]

My "standards" for my garden:
Tomatoes, squash (yellow and zucchini), peppers (quite a few different kinds, all heirloom seeds from my brother, most really hot), swiss chard, turnips, cucumbers and corn.
Then every year there are some other things as well; sometimes eggplant, sometimes okra, etc.
Did broccoli once, but it's kinda hard around here. Stays too hot for too long and it's easy for it to bolt.

I tried broccoli .. it just got huge but no fruit ... so I pulled out of the line-up. It's running some lap right now.

 

[Gary A.]

Mantis-1 by stevesklar, on Flickr

 

[Gary A.]

They're cut crossways then marinated in Korean stuff, kinda like a tempura sauce with garlic.

You're a gourmet Chef aren't you ?

Actually been thinking of taking some classes ...

 

[Gary A.]

... and I am caught up. Now time to take Cook for a walk.

 

[sm4him]

I'll have to make up for it next year with a bigger than usual garden.

My garden works all year round.

I could probably make one work at least 10 months out of the year; well, maybe 9. But it would take more careful planning that I've got in me, and it would also take working in the garden at temps colder than I'm interested in (which is to say, anything under 60F).

 

[snowbear95]

Kitty check: Zoe is sleeping in lazy_lobster's chair and Bell is watching a home remodeling show with my lovely wife.