Long Time, No Blog

Since last blogging occurred, I went to Iowa for Thanksgiving with Steven and his family, then I was at KSU for the first round of "real" training. It wasn't too bad, actually. I was a little worried, because sometimes things like that aren't as useful as people running them would like to think. Then I was back in the office on Thursday and Friday, where I helped with Master Gardener training Thursday, and did odds and ends on Friday.

It is a trifle frustrating when I meet Master Gardeners, and they say, "I don't know why you like vegetables. There are so many beautiful things to plant in my yard, I just can't grow any vegetables." ARGH. Not that I'm opposed to a nice ornamental plant. I'm sure that once I have space and time, I'll find all kinds of bizarre and interesting irises and dahlias and such to plant. Ah well, I'm sure I'll have half a dozen who really like fruit and vegetable gardening eventually.

Next week I'll be in the office all week, probably working on presentations most of the time. December is kind of a slow month, so I'm not going to be running around like crazy...too much. It should give me time to continue getting settled.

I did drive around a bit yesterday, in an ill-fated attempted to do some Christmas shopping. I just seem to have no really good ideas for anyone this year. I'll probably do better with my online shopping. I was semi-productive last week, in that I wrote half a dozen Christmas cards. Now they still need addresses and stamps, so don't hold your breath waiting for a card from me.