Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Spiders & Sweet Girls

Above: Camera stealers! I found this picture on my camera after a week of VBS. Erin and Joanna were in my drama team and did a great job! They were also fun to be with.

I really don't mind spiders that much, but I just don't like the poisonous kind. In my bathroom.


(and yeah, apparently, I have a bunch of spider webs to clean up on the bathroom ceiling, too.)

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Rain Barrels and More Music

I've finally finished some rain barrels that I've been half-heartedly working on for several years. At the beginning of the summer, I'll get fired up to work on them for a couple of hours. But then something goes wrong and I lose all motivation and abandon them for another year. This year I just bit the bullet and finished them. I think I may have set the world record for longest time taken to build rain barrels.

With a little more than an inch of rain, we can collect 300 gallons of water that we can easily use to water our garden using a normal hose. And I built them in such a way that if I want to add more barrels later it can be easily done.

They're not pretty, but they get the job done. I have them tied together at the bottom with hoses so that only one needs to be under the downspout but it will fill all three equally because of the water pressure.

Exciting times.

I finished another song for the poetry CD. This one is for a poem written about the Sago mine disaster. I tried to take a different tack and not just write another "sad" song, but instead focus in on the hardness of the mine, the rocks and the miners. It's called "Coal and Granite"

Here it is:

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And here's a teaser! The Book of Jebb CD is one step closer to being released! It will probably still be several months, but it's coming along. This is one of the songs I wrote for the group:

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Garden: May 31, 2010


Blue Chairs. Check out purple Clematis growing for the first time.


We added sulfur and manure compost to our garden this year and it's taking off! Tomatoes are way taller than usual. Beans and peppers are all growing very nicely.




Notice the snap pea make-shift trellis? (below)