Well this will make you not want to look at porn, lol. I had a moth in my greenhouse. I remember seeing it flapping around in there, always out of reach of me being able to grab it and get it outdoors. Finally about a week ago, it landed on my shorts and stayed there until I could get it outside.

What I didn’t know was months lay eggs that turn into catapillers that like to eat broccoli and radish leaves. My one tub of radishes looks like someone shot it with a shotgun with tiny pellets in it.

Since I grow everthing organically, I found out the best way to kill them is to eeeewwwww squish them. So now every day I look for more and squish the ones I find. Thanks Mrs. Moth. *sigh*

	We have a swamp cooler that cools our garage, and we had a short hose we bought at WalMart for a few dollars that ran from the hose bib, to the cooler.  When I went out yesterday morning and watered everything, it was all hunky dory.Well, when I went out at about 6pm last night, I found the hose had split, and it was fountaining up in the air about 5′ and had added this pond to the back yard.
	I squished my way through the clay soil and got it turned off, but wow did we have a lot of water.This is where the hose broke, my hubby had already replaced it by the time I got the picture taken.
	As you can see we have a small hill between the garage and the garden (left over from when they built up the pad for the garage, which was built after we bought the house) and we had a mini waterfall over the bluff into the backyard where all my tomatoes are planted.  Fortunately, it didn’t flood them.
	The part that worried me though was it flooded the greenhouse.  When I looked over and saw this, I was hoping it wouldn’t just sink into the ground.  See my part of the country is an old lake bottom, and the soil can settle, well, a LOT if you leave water on it like this.
	The inside was pretty flooded, the water was about 3″ deep, but only about 1/2 way back into the greenhouse.  I’m planning on building lettuce boxes on the floor on each side, and I’m glad they were not already in place when this happened.  We are getting ready to go to a convention for 2 days in July, and we are glad this happend now, and not then.  I can’t even imagine how bad this would have been if it had gone a few days.  Our backyard is privacy fenced, so it would have had to flood a LOT before the neighbors even noticed it behind us, and we have no neighbors on either side of us for an acre.

Thankfully, this morning everything is ok.  I was able to walk in the greenhouse to water everything without squishing into the dirt (like I did last night), and the pond is gone.  Amazing how much damage can be done in a short time, and how quickly it goes away.

Every morning, I go into my greenhouse, and water my plants.  And every morning, I check my bell pepper plant, and hope the fruit is starting to turn red.

I’ve never grown any other color but green, and this plant is a red bell pepper plant.  From all the research I’ve done, they start out green, and turn red…eventually.  That largest pepper is about 3″ in diameter and getting close to 4″ long.  When, I tell you, are they going to turn red? Its like watching paint dry, lol.  Eventually I’ll have them for my salad, but wow are they going to be big before they are ready.

Cleo, a friend of mine in the industry, posted up this article on a webmaster board showing that:

Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less — that’s 11 billion fewer miles, the DOT’s Federal Highway Administration said Monday, calling it “the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history.” Records have been kept since 1942.

According to AAA, for the first time since 2002, Americans said they were planning to drive less over the Memorial Day weekend than they did the year before.

Personally, I didn’t even make it out of my yard Saturday and Sunday. I was too busy working on creating this blog, a blog on another site, and my regular work. (I work 7 days a week, what the heck is a holiday, anyways?). I thought back yesterday to previous Memorial Days, to the trips I went on picnics in the park, and realized I’ve become a hermit. The furthest I went was to my greenhouse to plant some more tomatoes in my garden.

My sister though, she is on her way to South Carolina to see a graduation of her step daughter from boot camp. When she called me this morning, she said that she had already spent $200 in gas to get from Michigan to North Carolina where they spent the night. No wonder no one is driving! Can you imagine if they had drove a Motor Home, or something that got worse mileage? It would have cost them $500 so far, and they are not even to their destination, let alone the gas for the return trip.

We are a sad country if we cannot get energy independant enough to not rely on oil. Ok this is a rant of mine. After watching how Brazil has been using ethanol and has been energy independant for YEARS, it makes me mad that we can’t as a country do this. When one of the top people from GM was interviewed about producing flex fuel cars, he said

we are ready for production. We have been producing them for Brazil for years. The problem in the US is there are only ethanol pumps in about 1% of the gas stations. The oil industries don’t want to allow ethanol pumps in the gas stations, and it has been a struggle to do that.

Of course not, why would they with record oil profits in the billions? Which all leads back to the average citizen can’t afford to drive on a holiday this year.

All I can say is, I am glad I work out of my home on the internet. I’m in a very small town 120 mile round trip from the nearest Costco or movie theatre. And about 1,000 other things, but I can tap into the world from my desk chair. My brother now works from home too and telecommutes. I’m sure more people will be doing so and spending quality times in their backyards this summer instead of traveling the US as in the past.

Enough of a rant! Have a good one all, I guess that got me wound up, lol. Have a good one all, stay home, and look at porn for women. Its what I plan on doing.

Boy on May Day, I really miss living in Hawaii. There used to be free concerts, lots of hula dancing, and flowers EVERYWHERE!

In the middle of the desert, I’ll be celebrating the May Day by shoveling gravel, lol. Oh and transplanting tomatoes. My greenhouse is really growing well, and that always makes me happy.

However you celebrate May Day, bring a little traditional passion into your life. May Day (or Beltane as the ancients called it) celebrates spring, growth, renewal. Passion, life, and new beginnings. Wether you plant flowers, watch a child grow, or make love with your special someone, celebrate passion, love, and new life today!

I think I’m starting to drive my husband crazy, lol. Now that I have a greenhouse, I want to fill it up with plants. With prices of rice going through the roof, I decided it might be a good idea to grow a starch for us, so I picked yellow yukon potatoes to grow. I’ll have a row outside the greenhouse of these delicious veggies, and they are supposed to mature in only 77 days, so potatoes will be ready soon YUM!

I also picked up seeds for a purple bell pepper. I’ve never seen them in the store, but the reviews sound good, and they seem to be very prolific as far as production, so I’m pretty happy on that.

Working on another new site for women too while seed shopping, so I’ll be putting a post up in the next day or so with links for that.

I have been working on and off on a greenhouse now for a year, and my husband and I FINALLY got the it up and running. Whoo hoo! It has been a LOT of work, but being a vegetarian, I'm looking forward to growning a lot of my own veggies.