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Birthday: September 4
Gender: Male
Status: Married
Religion: Agnostic
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Idaho
United States
School:
Homedale High School, Boise State University
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Idaho Dept. of Labor
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Homedale Idaho, Boise Idaho, and many places in between during my navy time.
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Even blind squirrels find a nut once in a while.
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I yam what I yam. Married for too long. 2 wonderful tall handsome sons.

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bowling, skiing, golf, cooking, gardening, reading
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Harvest or beware.

Well, the family vacation is over.  We had a great time on a totally non-planned vacation.  We travelled as we liked, stayed where we liked and saw what we wanted to see.  No plans, no itineraries, nothing.

However, on the home front, more planning would have been nice.  The neighbor boy was to feed the cats and WATER MY PLANTS.  Excuse me for a second while I compose myself.  My poor cherry tomato plant looked like a tumbleweed when we got back.  The sprinklers caught most of the rest of the garden, but my cherry tomato was up in a pot on the patio.  Poor thing.  Good news though, it has recovered pretty much.  I don't think it will ever forgive me, but it will put on a few more cherry tomatoes.

The bigger problem is the zucchini plants.  WARNING!  Never assume your zucchini plants will stop growing while you are away.  Many a gardener has been found eaten alive by a gigantic zucchini.  I was gone for one week.  One week mind you, and the picture tells the story.  (I still have not found out how to place pictures in my journals, so you will just have to look at my latest shot.  It is a picture of what looks like 3 green logs on my kitchen table.)

One of my memories as a child was large zucchinis.  My father was never content with planting one or two hills of zucchini plants.  Oh no.  If 2 were good, 20 were supreme.  We would have zucchinis coming out of every orifice.  Because of this, some would grow to monster proportions.  Now, here comes the problem.  My father never believed in planting pumpkins in his garden.  Oh no, waste of water, so I never had a pumpkin to carve on Halloween.  Well, being the creative child that I was, I applied a solution that killed the proverbial 2 birds.  I carved zucchinis.  Well, let me rephrase that, I attempted to carve zucchinis.  Unfortunately, it never caught on.  Perhaps someday, and then I will be heralded as the genius that I truly am, and go down as the first person to carve a zucchini Jack-O-Lantern. 

Final note on my zucchini problem and this is a good one.  I have a friend at work who raises tortoises.  Guess what tortoises like to eat?  Answer, you got me.  LOL, but she said to bring in my zucchinis and we'll see what happens.  I'll keep you informed. 

 

Added: August 7, 2008
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