Snapshots

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I had my first dress fitting with the seamstress on Wednesday. Happily, the dress fits beautifully, so all there is to do is the bustling and a couple minor things. My next fitting will be in 2 weeks, just before we are headed out for Christmas.

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As we move through December, our fall classes wind down at work, but Garden Show planning speeds up. I have one more Market Farmer class, we have only 1 more Master Gardener Basic Training class (after this week), most of the committees are having their "Christmas Party" meetings, and so on. This is a good thing, of course, since I've got plenty of other things to do before January.

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The Garden Show is 3 months from now. Since we are doing a vegetable display garden, I'm doing a lot of the planning and planting of veggies. Today I planted tomato, brussels sprouts, and globe artichoke seeds. Hopefully everything turns out okay, since I really have no idea what I'm doing.

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Since it's now December, and the temperature is going to get down to a "frigid" 22 degrees, I decided to harvest some of the things I've been keeping going out in our demonstration garden. I harvested the rest of 4 varieties of lettuce, the remaining purple carrots, and the gold beets. Yum! I gave some of the produce away to staff, and the rest I made into a salad for MG Basic Training. The lettuces and carrots were gorgeous...maybe I'll get around to transferring some pictures to the blog.

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Is it just me or have there been absolutely no movies worth going to see for months?!? Every few weeks I think, "Gee, we could go to a movie for something fun to do." Then I look up the movie listings and realize that there is absolutely nothing that looks enticing enough to pay too much money to see. Supposedly there are some movies coming out in December that are worth seeing, but I don't think we're going to have much time for movie-going.

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I hope the Federal government doesn't bail out the automakers. I'm sorry that people will get hurt from losing jobs. But people are going to get hurt just as bad, if not worse, in the long run if the government keeps spending money it doesn't have. And that's all I've got to say about that.