Good Karma Farms 2.1

Last year we had a lovely crop of tomatoes, green peppers and herbs. This year we started one, but I had to go away to Fort Jackson and Steve was too busy to maintain it so everything died.

Since we live in SoCal, we did a fall/winter planting. Spring/summer plantings are things that need a lot of heat and warmth, as with the aforementioned tomatoes and etc. Fall/summer plantings are hard vegetables that don't get phased by the occasional bit of frost, not that we even get a lot of that.

So now we have a beginning on broccoli, spinach and potatoes. If I can find turnip seeds I'll plant those too.

I'll miss growing herbs until the spring, though.

In other news, I got up this morning, ran a mile, felt good doing it, ran another half, found myself in Normal Heights, turned around, and only started getting tired after a couple of hills. I walked about a half mile and ran the last half. So three miles all told.

I have two running routes. One is the 3k Ghetto Mini-Marathon heading east down Orange Avenue to 42nd Street and turning around. That's one mile each way. The other is heading west over Orange, which turns into Howard over the 805 and continuing either to Texas Street (one mile) or Park Blvd. (1.5 miles). The westbound run has the advantage of not going through the ghetto since the farther west you go, the nicer the neighbourhood becomes. It also has hills, which are good or bad depending on what kind of run I want. I think I also may try just heading down to University and going west from there and seeing how long it is before I can make it into Hillcrest.

Yikes.

Given my unemployed state, I'm at home a lot. I clean the house, do the laundry, prepare nice meals. Right now I've got an experimental bread dough rising in the oven. Steve likes the taste of my sourdough, but doesn't like the heavy texture, so I've added a teaspoon of yeast to the dough.

One weekend a month I put on a military uniform and switch gears from housewife to soldier.

I've become a Heinlein heroine. And I hate the way Heinlein portrays women in his books written for adults!

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I'm going to Mass tonight, which I normally don't do. Steve wants to do an outing tomorrow. Shakespeare Pub shows Premier League games for the price of a drink and a meal and tomorrow is a very important game. Tottenham Hotspur is going to take on Stoke City in the Race To The Bottom Of The Rankings. Who will be the basement dweller? We shall see!

It's tomorrow morning, so I won't get to see Colin Powell's big announcement on Meet The Press, but I suppose I can read about it.

Great success!

I made my usual sourdough recipe, with the only change being 1 tsp of yeast.

The bread comes out not quite as sour, and it rises really well. Yum!

My lemon pie isn't quite as successful. I thought about getting a lemon and grating peel into it. I should have. It's not terribly lemony. However the custard recipe is almost identical, with brown sugar instead of lemon juice and THAT should be outstanding.

Food porn!

Before I hit the hay, some sexay baking pictures:

Lemon pie:



Daily Bread: