Last Day of School

Today is my last day of school, of twelfth grade, at Robert M. Beren Academy. I have mixed feelings, but rejoice, too. Now I will ceremonially clear out firefox of its passwords. First, however, I will drink a cup of sake.

Tomato pictures

Courtesy of Mommy.
Cluster of Hybird Goliath tomato
Roma tomatoes
Horny denizen

Happiness

Last night, I finished my online AP Government course which I had left until two weeks before it was due. Starting with 27% complete, I finished 40% in one week of round-the-clock computer work while the senior class was on its spontaneous trip to New Orleans. Yesterday, I did the midterm, final multiple-choice section, the last assignment, and the last quiz. Hurray!

The Garden is doing well. I can't wait to work a bit on repotting plants and applying fish fertilizer after not doing that for at least a month. The Pole beans have climbed the two poles that I stuck in the ground and produced beans that are a delightful mottled green-and-black color. (The black disappears during cooking.) Pictures will come shortly. All the tomatoes are also ripening. The Roma tomatoes are the best so far, with the most juiciness. They are plump and almost wriggle and pop off the cluster with pleasure to be eaten. (I'm listening to Scriabin's Symphony No. 2, maybe it affects the mood.)

Gardening News

This has got to be the best year ever. Thanks to a cooler April, the tomatoes have set like never before. The Salad Romas are beginning to ripen, and there are so many of them! For the first time there are really clusters of tomatoes. The Goliath has one giant cluster that bunched up together. Its first tomato actually got squeezed off early because of that (or maybe because I had not watered it for two days), and is ripening on the kitchen sill window. The bush beans have begun to produce, and the pole beans have grown ten feet tall and just began to flower with deep pink flowers. The eggplants are coming along well, too. Important note: Plants, like those of the Solanaceae family, that will fit in small pots much prefer really big pots to grow unrestrained, especially indeterminate tomatoes. Eggplants love big pots, but the small-fruited variety will do well in smaller pots. Pictures will come soon.

Proposed USAF American botnet

Military intelligence - no longer such a paradox.