Rambling garden commentary staked down to Houston, Texas. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. I pull them up, but their tubers stay under the filter fabric and send up new shoots. Sometimes the nodules do pull up out of the flower beds, and I stop to nick one with a fingernail and smell it. So famine is one method of controlling .

Muhly Grass Now In Session. Short bloom time does not diminish the late blooming nakedness, sans leaves, of. Very surprising is this reblooming daylily,. It first opened on May 27th and for some reason decided to give it another go now. Okay, you do you, Buddy.

Sunday, January 31, 2010. On February 11 I can file for Social Security. I was given a tip from a friend to put May 12th as my retire date. That way, I should get my first check in June. But, then what? I have already told my boss that I would stay until the 1st of July, to finish out the fiscal year with her. I have no one to answer to anymore except myself. I have no one to answer to except myself.

Gardening in Bangalore, sharing my successes and failures. The vegetable garden planted for us by My Dream Garden has done better than we could have dreamed. We have taken many harvests of beetroot, carrot, tomatoes, egg plant, okra, dill, spinach, lettuce, beans and even more. To get back to the garden, the story is best told in pictures, starting with the terrace when completed but empty. These plants were somewhat neglected in the old house.

Perhaps writing is not meant to be indignant. It is an act of catharsis, to make sense of the inherent confusion revolving around the ever-important purpose of this life that was given to us. But, between those lines of ambiguity, we make attempts at the act of self discovery. A conversation with self, an honest one at that. It necessarily is not coherent. But, I am digressing. Considering that, I should like to believe that I am normal. Reflecting on the mediocrity of life is annoyin.