Try this tasty variant of my Challah Braid recipe!
Category: Personal
Diary-like commentary
After more than two years of inactivity, I’ve taken a bit of time to tidy up the site.
Here are the main changes:
- conversion of most posts to pages
- first pass at organizing pages into hierarchies
- addition of sibling and child page links to the sidebar
- addition of previous/parent/next links to pages which didn’t have them.
There’s quite a bit left to be done, but it’s a start!
I tidied up the potting shed today….
And then took a quick look at the arden. It’s still pretty wet in the eastern half–but I saw the first hint of a rhubarb crown peeking out of the ground, and garlic sprouting in the centre section!! (and a closer look this evening shows more garlic elsewhere too 🙂
Checking my notes from last year and comparing to my layout, this means that the Leningrad in both locations are up (the one next to the asparagus are about 3″ tall!); Portugal #1 and #2 in the centre garden have sprouted; there are a few Choparsky and Siberian in the south central garden; and there are a few odd ones here and there elsewhere too.
The parsnip leaves are beginning to sprout too, so they should be ready to dig up soon.
I knew that getting the motor to run the first time after winterizing would be tough, since it was full of fogging oil. Well, after a lot of pulling and pulling, I got it running!
Burning off the fogging oil
Couldn’t keep it running at an idle, though. Turns out there may have been one small problem: one has to open a vent on the fuel tank, which was news to me as I’d never done this before!
Also, I found it kept running better when started in forward rather than neutral. The manual says not to do that, presumably for safety reasons; but an expert site that was recommended to me said it could be done. Forward is higher RPM, which I think helped keep it running.
Spent the better part of yesterday weeding and mini-tilling to get the garden looking good. Hilled the potatoes, too.
The garden following a good day’s work
Front: parsnips and tipi for runner beans. Left, right, very back: garlic. Centre (L to R): green beans, wax beans, okra x 2, wax beans. Beyond the green and wax beans (L to R) buttercrunch lettuce, beets; behind that, several rows of peas. Far right tomato plants, hot peppers, and farthest to the right, potatoes (Yukon Gem and Yukon Gold).