verisimilitude

The garden is off and running! We planted tomatoes, peppers, squash, green beans and lettuce. Here is a picture of the veggie garden.

The vegetable bed is 12′ by 6′ and slightly raised. Two years ago, I bought a pickup truck full of dairy cow compost and filled the bed with it. I added some texas green sand to the mix and then tilled the bed. I must have done something right because every year I seed and it just keeps growing! The picture shows the lettuce rows and the fact I need to weed this weekend!

The herb garden also got a makeover and clean up. Still waiting for the day lilies to flower in the herb garden. The chives are flowering which was such a shocker to me last year. I had no idea chives were so pretty! Sage, basil, rosemary, garlic are also in the bed. For color I planted a few non-herbs such as dusty miller & day lillies.

I also added these ridiculous bird ornaments that make me laugh everytime I see them. I have a feeling that I will never have a formal victorian rose garden because I love the whimsy of a silly garden!

Happy gardening to all of you!

So, this is what the D&D Insider character generator, for Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition, looks like? And this? I swear, I like World of Warcraft’s results better. Seriously. No joke. Couldn’t they just…I don’t know…license a viewer or something?

So, for those of you that grew up in the 80’s, this could be huge news. Yes, that’s right, Knight Rider is coming back. As I said, it was huge news for me, up until late yesterday afternoon. Why? I found out who stars in it; this bum. Why does this make me unhappy? Because the last Michael Knight also came from a soap.

What’s wrong with Hasselhoff? Well, looking back on fond memories, he was awesome as Michael Knight. Looking back with my current perspective, he was terrible. While his performance may have been acceptable back in the early 80’s, the same performance certainly would not be now. So, when considering a re-launch of this amazingly successful (at the time, mind you) show, I would assume those behind this endeavor would look to someone…else.

I hate soap operas. I actually watched one fairly regularly for a time, but soap operas just end up pissing me off. Their story lines are far too contrived and trite for me to truly enjoy. I’m generalizing. Badly. I get that. But still, another soap “star”? Granted, for this new show, they have Bruce Davison in a role, who I think is just cool as hell, for seemingly no apparent reason. But, that’s not enough for me, not when considering they also have Sydney Poitier on the show, and I have yet to like a single role she has ever been in. Besides, she’s really just riding on the name of another actor, and a great one to boot.

She looks kinda cute though, so maybe there’s hope that she won’t be awful. However, as I learned from the re-launch of Bionic Woman, a cute lead actress that I don’t actually mind watching isn’t enough to save a show.

So, I hate the cast. That’s clear. What about the car? Well, the original was fantastic for the 80’s, but the new one is just mean-as-hell looking. Would I have picked a different car though?

Hell yes.

So, I was playing WoW (that would be World of Warcraft, for those of you not paying attention) with the wife (that would be sreynolds, for those of you still not paying attention) yesterday. I just hit level 70 recently, and was thoroughly enjoying my new flying mount (that is slower than my land mount, go figure). sreynolds logs in and I rush to give her a hand. As we’re committing genocide throughout Zangarmarsh, we notice the Alliance are attempting to take control of the two towers from the Horde. We see that one tower is already taken, but the second is still up for grabs, so we flag PvP, head for the west tower, and the takeover countdown timer begins.

Now, sreynolds and  I have virtually no experience at all with PvP, but we figure, we can do it, right? And I also figured, I’m level 70, so if a 70 shows up, we’ll be evenly matched, right? Wrong on both counts. Only one Hordie showed up, a tauren hunter. No big deal, I thought, I’m a hunter too. First thing I noticed though, was his mount; a Netherdrake. Not armored, but a Netherdrake nonetheless. Hordie lands near the base of the stairs leading up to our tower, and I get my first good look at his gear; Glowing shoulders, fearsome helm, various other crazy-looking gear. This was going to be bad. Soon as the Hordie flags PvP, I slap a Hunter’s Mark on him, send in my cat, he sends in his cat, I drop a Freezing Trap, and as I’m reaching -again, as I’m reaching!- for Bestial Wrath, the Hordie fears me. Wait, what? Yes, I said he fears me. Now, I’m not a WoW expert by a long shot, and at that moment, I had no knowledge of a hunter class ability that can fear a target, but even still, my very limited PvP experience told me to hit Bestial Wrath just in case a fear effect was coming. Damn the bad luck timing.

How did he fear me in the first place? Maybe some nice PvP gear he had? That’d be my guess. Besides the fact that I wasn’t expecting a fear to come my way, at most, I figured it would hit the cat instead, so I was doubly-shocked.

Anyhow, I’m feared, my cat’s tearing into the Hordie, the Hordie’s cat is tearing into me (though nowhere near as well as mine is into him) and the Hordie fires two shots, the first after a long delay (Aimed Shot, would be my guess), and sreynolds’s priest drops. Dead. Very dead. Yes, so very dead, she even died from it (inside humor, otherwise that comment was just stupid, so my apologies in advance). Four or five shots from the Hordie and I’m dead. Now, how long did that take to unfold, you ask? Maybe 10 seconds, and that’s a very big maybe.

So, long story short, we suck at PvP. Absolutely, unequivocally, inarguably, undeniably, suck at PvP.

Walking around the house yesterday, I noticed the plum trees are budding. I guess spring is just around the corner. Every year I plan to plant gorgeous masses of annual flowers… and just don’t seem to have the time. So this year, I think I am going to just pick a few perennials so that I don’t have to replant year after year. So here are a few picks from Better Homes and Gardens that are drought happy:

Lavender Full sun 3 feet tall Zones: 5-8	Sundrops Full sun To 6 inches tall Zones: 5-8
Meadow Sage Full sun To 28 inches tall Zones: 5-9	Blanket Flower Full sun To 3 feet tall Zones: 3-8

I am young enough to be included in the generation that uses wiki’s, blogs and social networking; and yet somehow, I have never posted to a blog. Since I am an over-achiever by nature, I decided to create a blog site. So… in short.. I have been assimilated.