Update on mah plants:

• The tomato plant is still alive, but I wouldn’t say it’s thriving. The two fruits that bloomed are still there and have grown in size, but I think they’ve stopped getting bigger in the last week or so. No signs of dying, but I think the heat has been too much for them. I’ve moved the plant to a spot that gets a little bit more shade.
• The other plants in my arsenal are doing well. These include the following plants: mint, oregano, lots of basil (including a couple of cuttings I’ve rooted in water then replanted), the two houseplants (which I think I’ve tortured by leaving them outside for a few days), thyme, and parsley (growing verrry slow from seed).
• The latest addition to my edible garden is an Anaheim Chile Pepper plant (mentioned in my last post). When I got it there were a couple of blossoms; one isn’t thriving, but a couple are, plus this morning I saw one new one forming. Hopefully I’ll see at least one pepper grow out of it.
• In the non-edible department, yesterday we dug up the small patch of dead grass at the front of our house and put down some sod. I am hoping we can keep that alive for a while.
• Finally, today I picked up some succulents for the front of our house. On the other side of our small grass patch we have a Birds of Paradise plant, and the soil around that has been very dry (as has been most soil here in SoCal due to the heat and drought). I figured I could place down some succulents so at least it won’t be so bare. I’ll do that later today and maybe take and post some photos.

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Sort of. Things have just been busy offline, so I haven’t had much time (or energy) to blog much lately, much less peruse the old boards and sites I used to. I’m not complaining though, things have been going well.

So I’ve been preoccupied with photography lately. I’m a total hack but I enjoy it immensely! I got my first “real” camera in 6th grade when I took my first photo classes. I had a Canon AE-1, and I remember often coming home on the bus smelling like darkroom chemicals … ah, that was fun! I then played around with several Polaroids, and much later I was given a Canon EOS Elan II. By then, digital snapshots were very popular, and 35mm film just became cumbersome and out of date. Then I met the Lomo LC-A a few years ago and fell in love with film all over again. Of course, life got in the way (school, wedding, work, etc) and I kind of abandoned film once more … until this year! Yep, I’ve dusted my LC-A off and started using it again. I also picked up a Holga while we were in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, and I’m seriously head-over heels! Again, I suck, but it’s just so much fun! (Feel free to check out my Flickr.)

Another thing I’ve been keeping busy with is my “garden.” The tomato plant is surviving, but struggling. The other blossoms have dropped off, but the two fruits are still growing. We’ll see if they make it any further. (Cross your fingers!) The mint, basil, oregano, thyme, and houseplants are doing quite well, and as of yesterday, I added an Anaheim Chile to the family (donated by the same co-worker who gave me the tomato plant). I would really, really, like to overhaul our yard and landscaping, so if anyone has any recommendations for a landscaper, do let me know! We do have a gardener that comes out once a week, but he sucks and barely does anything other than pick up fallen leaves. I’m looking for someone to fix or at least make suggestions on how to fix the poor drainage on our lot and plant new or at least make the current plants thrive rather than letting them die a slow, painful death. Because seriously, I don’t need to keep paying someone to pick up green waste from our itty bitty yard.

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