Rain in August??????

Good morning:

Here you see my one tomato growing upside down. It has two small tomatoes showing up on the left side. I doubt you can see them but you can try. When I planted this I tried to put in from the top, so I disturbed the root ball. It did not grow at first, until I fertilized it with Miracle Grow for Tomatoes and other vegetables. It then took off.

I used a old milk cartoon as my source. I read an article that I did not have to buy my container but I could use a milk cartoon or liter pop plastic bottle. I used both but the one I planted in the pop bottle broke off so it did not grow.

It is cool out this weekend. We are not suppose to get rain in August but two days it rained lightly and last night it rained again.

I am now reading Star Island by Carl Hiaasen. I like the way he writes and I have read most of the books he wrote. I am more than half way through it. There are places in the book that makes me laugh out loud.

I picked up seven more books at the library yesterday, including the book I am now reading.

My dad brought me eight ears of corn, a big box of blueberries and a small box of black cherries. I ate the cherries last night. I am thinking of making blueberry jam. Blueberries are not one of my favorite fruits. But blueberry jam might be good.

Steven

Saturday today...

Hello again:

Once again a picture of structure made of car parts.

I am almost finished Somewhere Inside, a story of being held in jail in North Korea. What a strange and crazy country...

I am not doing much today.

I am going to the library in the next hour or so.

I do hope you are enjoying this cooler Saturday.

Steve

The weekend is near...

Hi again:

This picture is one of many I have of a structure made of auto parts. The artist is in Argentina and he makes some fine looking stuff.

I am now reading Somewhere Inside, a book by one of the journalists who was caught inside North Korea a few years ago. She and her friends were only a few feet inside North Korea and did not know it. Once they realized it, they ran back to China, but North Korean guards chased them to arrest two of them they caught. Both were arrested inside China for having been a few feet inside of North Korea by mistake. I like to read about North Korea. I read another book called Nothing to Envy about life inside North Korea.

Time for some breakfast here.

Steven

H now

Hello again:

I am not writing here as much as I want. I need to make time each day to post something here.

I finished Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. It amazes me what meth does to a person. With just two times of smoking it you are hooked.

This morning I subscribed to The New York Times Book Review and American Scholar for my Kindle. The first two weeks of my subscriptions are free. I will check both out to see how much I like each in the next few weeks to determine if I want to keep the subscriptions going.

The book review comes out every week. American Scholar comes out quarterly.

I have not decided on my next book. I have a few here to chose from plus six more at the library.

I see I am getting tomatoes on my planter that is growing up-side-down. This is an Early Girl plant so the tomatoes do not get very big. I have many and many more tomatoes on my two Willamette plants in the ground. I will post a picture of my up-side-down plant in the next few days.

Three weeks from tomorrow my Kindle 3 ships from Amazon. I selected free shipping so it take 3 days to get here.

The picture above is self-explanatory.

The weekend starts soon.

Steven

The start of the week...

Hello again:

This picture shows the Navy's new pirate catcher. It goes 60 kph, pretty fast. In this picture the boat is going 40 knots per hour with no wake in the front of the boat.

I finished Six Days of the Condor, a book I read in 1975. I read it after see the movie, Three Days of the Condor. As with most books made into movies, this book was much better than the movie.

My next book is The Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. I want to learn how a successful literary agent can turn into a crank addict. After this book it will be Scout, Atticus and Boo, a study of To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published 50 years ago last month.

I can hardly wait for my new Kindle 3 to get here at the end of this month. I see now the Kindle 3 is sold out on the Amazon Kindle page after such a high demand for this device. I ordered mine two days after the announcement so I should be getting mine by the end of August.

I do hope your week is going well.

Steven