This is a post from my ancient blog, orginially going up on this day in 2011, about the events on this day in 2004.
It was a beautiful, warm, sunny spring morning in Chicago. Monday never felt so good.
There was so much change in the air for us. My j...
That purple shamrock’s recovery is nothing short of a miracle. We should all be so hardy.
And lemon tree 4.0 is kicking all sorts of ass. Choose your metaphor for 2020.
Odds and ends:
See that lemon tree in the middle? She’s growing pretty fast lately, though in something of a checkmark shape which I don’t think is ideal. I’m just going to let nature take its course, or at least as much as nature is involved with t...
I haven’t given an update on the lemon tree project in a while. Here they are. I took them outside for a better pic; they have lived in my office since they made it out of the basement grow box.
It’s kind of hard to believe these two plants came fro...
The lemon tree project waits for no one. That guy on the left is finna be culled this week, leaving me with two candidates. Eight sprouts, six plantings, five seedlings, three survivors, soon two. I may pot them both.
Gonna be tough to get these lad...
Improvisation. It’s chilly down in the work room, only about 64°—not quite where I want my seedlings to be. So I went out to the garage and dug out some ancient Christmas lights, the old school C9 style. These used to adorn the front yard of my gran...
For Christmas I got a cool little lens kit that clips onto a phone. There’s a telephoto, fisheye, wide angle, and a macro which appears to have a depth of field of a couple millimeters. It’s a bit of a production to attach it right, so it’s not the ...
I put a lemon seed in a flower pot just now. At least I’m pretty sure it’s a lemon seed. Sharon puts slices of lemon in her water and I found it near the cutting board. It’s definitely some kind of citrus seed and I don’t think there have been any se...
