You may recall that I had to see for myself why most folks say “don’t transplant carrots” and yet… your John Jeavonseses recommend it.  Well, I’d say that the jury is mostly in on that one.
Transplant your carrots, and you can expect to produce something that looks like:
A roaster chicken– in this case, a roaster [...]

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OK, fine. I have another hive.
It came down to letting the little freaks do their thing again on their own schedule (i.e., probably when there was an anaphylaxis convention next door…) or I had to try to head them off at the pass.
What the hell, I can always sell it to someone.
So, I went [...]

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I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]

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I do go off on tangents sometimes, eh?
Let us cleanse our palates with some nice normal stuff:
Wormcake.  I was worried that they’d all fried in the recent heat.  Nope.  Quite happy living in their own filth and eating my garbage.  THANKS, GUYGALS!
I was reading this blog the other day, and it inspired me to get [...]

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Continuing the saga of replacing dear Cedar, I now find myself at the opposite end of the spectrum from my previous post.  I’ve got three people with whom I’ve spoken, and they’re all swell.
I actually thought I had it decided.  I’d selected someone, dropped notes to the other interviewees (all pretty good, too), and just [...]

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