Sunday, 01 July 2012
A few weeks ago, we planted eight tomato plants. We’ve weeded the area, and we’ve ensured they receive enough water. Well, except once. Last week, there were two days when none of us were home. So they didn’t get enough water.
Evidently, this is all a tomato plant can handle, because they’ve been on life-support ever since. Meanwhile, weeds grew up in cracks in the driveway and in between the decorative stones in our yard; some of the weeds are already taller than the tomato plants.
This evening, we babied the tomatoes some more by setting up a bamboo scaffolding for them to grow on. Yeah, turns out tomatoes can’t even grow straight without something to lean on.
All this has got me wondering how tomatoes have not gone extinct yet; they seem like such weaklings. How is it we have to spend all this time caring for them, and still they are dying.
Next year, I’m growing a weed garden.
Monday, 02 July 2012
Speaking of outside: man, do I hate hot weather.
It’s too hot and too humid right now. I can’t cool down the same way I can warm up because…
1) I can only take off so many clothes.
Even at home, just sitting on the couch wearing nothing but a pair of shorts…and I’m still too hot. I could take off these shorts, but I don’t think that will cool me down anymore. Quite the contrary, my wife assures me it will just make me hotter.
2) Everything I do produces heat.
If we’re cooking, sitting at a computer, cleaning the house, anything: it all produces heat. None of it – not even just sitting here breathing – produces cool.
I have cousins that have lived most of their lives in Florida, and they frequently questioned how I can live in an Arctic tundra, with “nothing” to do when it’s cold out. That’s funny, because I wonder how they can do anything all year when it’s 90 degrees out everyday.
Anyway, just 90 days until autumn. I’ll be holed up here until then.