Thanks...

Everyone, really, thanks.

There's not much more to say really. 

Well, aside from the details of getting pix off the camera and sharing yarn, WIPs, and FOs.

I am rather stricken by the vast quantity of folks in my "circle" who are separating from long (some very long) term relationships.  Is it just that I didn't notice so much while not in the same predicament myself?  Very strange.  Mind-boggling really, in a really sad way.

I spent the day outside getting a raised box built for tomatoes, transferring dirt and compost, planting 48(!) tomato plants, plus some broccoli, beets and orange peppers.  Still to come is tossing down some lettuce seed (and transferring some started lettuces if I can find them).  Next up, making a reasonable stab at keeping the boxes weeded...  I am ending the day with a seriously angry knot in the lower left side of my back - eesh.

I also need to get pix of Toby and his new ramp - what a difference to our lives!

Last up, a new computer arrived at the house to replace a 9 (?) year old one - largely for the kids to play on, plus email for the grownups.  It also has a video card compatible with Second Life so I'll want to play with *that*.  The old one is behaving seriously erratically - hopefully it'll work long enough to get the rest of the stuff on it off onto the external hard drive.  The only downside is that the new computer comes with Vista - and after some serious googling, I'm either going to wipe the hard drive and downgrade it to XP, or partition the hard drive and have it dual-bootable (Vista on one, XP on the other).  I'll also look at whether I can boot from an external hard drive (this says it can be done - though it recommends installing a mirror image of the internal drive - I'd do it off of the old computer I guess - and having it sit there in case it's needed - really, I'd rather use the external with XP and use the Vista internal drive in case the external crashes!)...I have a decent-sized external hard drive; it might be even easier to do it that way.  Any tips from the geeks out there?   The one thing I'll probably lose if I revert to XP completely is the TV tuner thingie that comes with this computer (I gather there's no XP driver for it).  I can't say as I'll lose sleep over that one - the house TV has local channels only (no cable), and getting TV through the computer is far from a "need" or even a "want".

Comments

[Katy]

That is a freaking LOT of tomatoes. ;)

[misnomer]

48? I planted two, and once they start fruiting I know I will have more than I can eat. I hope you know some good tomato sauce recipes!