Wanderings

Last year, whenever I cleaned the chicken coop, I dumped the straw and manure on our old garden. We gave up on gardening years ago because the critters ate our vegetables before they had a chance to get started. This Spring,  I had time due to my job discomfiture to build a proper fence around the garden with a nice gate.

Because of the nitrogen rich manure, the plants have grown into a jungle. My tomato plants are six feet tall and covered with buds and tomatoes. I expect to pick the first one this week – a month earlier than ever before. The corn is growing like crazy and is already taller than it has ever been.

We have squash, and beans, and broccoli, and peppers coming up like crazy.

Here are a few pictures.

Nyack has been a refuge for all kinds of odd types escaping NYC. I am surprised there are not more of these.

UFO Sighting in Nyack, New York, United States on June 19th 2013.

“I was driving home from school on the thruway. As I was merging off the exit I looked up in front of me and I noticed something in the sky. As I was going around the bend I had to turn my head to the drivers side window to see it since I was driving away from it. I clearly saw three clear to whitish objects closely together. It did not seem like they were moving.”

The person’s phone was dead – convenient.

Jobs Official Trailer #1 (2013) – Ashton Kutcher Movie HD – YouTube.

Now is your chance to spend $8,000 on a new Acer Aspire R7 computer. Cool looking but a little over priced.

If I had been a better coder this could have been me.
(Yes, this is really the famous John MacAfee, the computer programmer.)

It was too crowded on South Cape Beach on Saturday. There must have been a dozen people sharing the sun with us. As usual, we did not catch any fish, and the Metal Detector didn’t find anything. I drove the whole way back and I’m tired.

We get a pretty good dinner at Spanky’s here in Hyannis. Voted 2012 best restaurant in Cape Cod Magazine.

I walked down to the docks at Hyannis with Mom and Larry. Some nice people took a picture.

We made it to Hyannis after lunch in Plymouth. The Gorey house, home of Edward Gorey, was closing at 4 so we had 10 minutes to wander around. I will be going back tomorrow if I have a chance.

If you have trouble with the slideshow, you can go to the my Gorey Album on Picassa.

Larry and I are going fishing.

In order to test out creating a POI (points of interest) file for the GPS, I wound up with this as a byproduct. Still there is no easy way to do this since Yahoo Maps went out of business.

View Garage Sales this week in a full screen map

I’ve got mine! Shaun started selling them online.

Why should you buy this? Because it has my name on the back.

It seems to be somewhat abated, now, but for most of yesterday and today you could not access any of my sites due to traffic issues.

I traced what I think was a “race” situation from one of the spam robots spidering the sites. It used some odd get parameters and my permalink finder plugin was getting confused. I had fixed this a few weeks ago, but I never distributed the plugin so it started happening on some of my domains where it had not occurred before.

I uploaded the new plugin and the storm seems to have passed. I am not getting thousands of hits on the same web page in the space of a few seconds.

I now have to clean up the plugin and publish it so other sites can use it.

Hugh Laurie singing Little Walters’ amazing “Mellow Down Easy”. This is how to do the blues.

My old friend Bob Rucker has had to deal with a heart defect his whole life. It caused his heart to enlarge and as of late, he has been suffering from heart failure. A few weeks ago he went into Westchester Medical Center on the heart transplant list. On the 30th he got his new heart.

Bob is doing well, but is on lots of medication and I can’t go see him, yet. I figure Monday or Tuesday I’ll stop by and check out his new heart.

Heart transplant surgery is getting to be routine, and Bob was otherwise in perfect health. But, this is not a slam dunk by any means, and Bob has been in my thoughts.

Send Bob your best wishes.