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st_aurafinaUgh, who mows their lawn at 7am? I thought there were laws to protect us from that. On my sleeping-in morning, too, of all the cruel ironies. I shall not bitch too hard, though, because I love my tiny town.
On a more positive note, I have a peach on my desk and it smells delicious. Stone fruit makes summer bearable.
In other news from the vegetable front, things are lush and leafy. We bought a cherry tomato plant which was supposed to be 50cm tall at most. I don't know what we did, but it's six feet plus now, and we've had to lash it to a near-by cypress bush for support because it's taller than all of our tomato stakes now. And laden with fruit. So many tiny tomatoes in our immediate future, yum.
Our green zebra tomato has many green stripy fruits on it. I had to google search to find how to tell when green tomatoes are ripe. (When they're yellow and green, apparently.) I am looking forward to tasting them, apparently they're quite zesty. (Such a good word, 'zesty'.)
The mystery/zombie tomato plant has little tiny grape-sized tomatoes on it, so I am assuming it's not Mortgage Lifter. By elimination, that means it's either Tiny Tim or Yellow Pear, but we won't know until they ripen. I'm hoping for Yellow Pear, then we'll have red, green and yellow tomatoes in our salads. So pretty!
The eggplant bushes are ginormous, have billions of really pretty pale purple flowers, but no fruit yet. I don't know if we're warm enough down here to make eggplant fruit, but they're bigger than last year's plants and there's still a good eight weeks of warm weather, so I'm hopeful. And the basil has bolted. We're clipping off flowers every night, but we're not going to keep up at this rate. I think the basil season is winding down for us. It was tasty while it lasted.
Wow, looking at the above paragraphs, it would be easy to believe that we actually know something about gardening, which is so wrong it's laughable.
Warren Ellis hosted a webcomics week on Whitechapel. I'm glad I took the time to motor right through the whole ten pages of people promoting their webcomics, because I found a couple of gems:
Malaak: Angel of Peace is a superhero comic set in Lebanon. It hits all my buttons - female superhero learning to use super powers, designing a costume and keeping it practical, mythological villains thriving in a modern world.
Malaak was called into existence by the turmoil in Lebanon; she grows from a cedar seed into a nine year old girl who is found and adopted by a family living in a local village. The action starts when she moves to Beirut to attend college, and her powers begin to manifest:
This is the one of the best panels in the history of forever - Malaak, being a history student, uses her textbook to identify the baddies she's just fought:
There's three books so far; I inhaled them in a day. I'm definitely going to be buying this for my bookshelf. Possibly for gifts, too.
Also awesome, in a different way, is Wasted Epiphanies. This artist had me at for everyone who ever wished the mothership would come and take them home. The gorgeous art, and the occasional polar bear story are just icing on the cake:
This is me, except that I didn't know the mothership was coming until it arrived in the form of the internet. *hugs flist*
I love the way webcomics have become such a huge thing. There's something for everyone.
On a more positive note, I have a peach on my desk and it smells delicious. Stone fruit makes summer bearable.
In other news from the vegetable front, things are lush and leafy. We bought a cherry tomato plant which was supposed to be 50cm tall at most. I don't know what we did, but it's six feet plus now, and we've had to lash it to a near-by cypress bush for support because it's taller than all of our tomato stakes now. And laden with fruit. So many tiny tomatoes in our immediate future, yum.
Our green zebra tomato has many green stripy fruits on it. I had to google search to find how to tell when green tomatoes are ripe. (When they're yellow and green, apparently.) I am looking forward to tasting them, apparently they're quite zesty. (Such a good word, 'zesty'.)
The mystery/zombie tomato plant has little tiny grape-sized tomatoes on it, so I am assuming it's not Mortgage Lifter. By elimination, that means it's either Tiny Tim or Yellow Pear, but we won't know until they ripen. I'm hoping for Yellow Pear, then we'll have red, green and yellow tomatoes in our salads. So pretty!
The eggplant bushes are ginormous, have billions of really pretty pale purple flowers, but no fruit yet. I don't know if we're warm enough down here to make eggplant fruit, but they're bigger than last year's plants and there's still a good eight weeks of warm weather, so I'm hopeful. And the basil has bolted. We're clipping off flowers every night, but we're not going to keep up at this rate. I think the basil season is winding down for us. It was tasty while it lasted.
Wow, looking at the above paragraphs, it would be easy to believe that we actually know something about gardening, which is so wrong it's laughable.
Warren Ellis hosted a webcomics week on Whitechapel. I'm glad I took the time to motor right through the whole ten pages of people promoting their webcomics, because I found a couple of gems:
Malaak: Angel of Peace is a superhero comic set in Lebanon. It hits all my buttons - female superhero learning to use super powers, designing a costume and keeping it practical, mythological villains thriving in a modern world.
Malaak was called into existence by the turmoil in Lebanon; she grows from a cedar seed into a nine year old girl who is found and adopted by a family living in a local village. The action starts when she moves to Beirut to attend college, and her powers begin to manifest:
This is the one of the best panels in the history of forever - Malaak, being a history student, uses her textbook to identify the baddies she's just fought:
There's three books so far; I inhaled them in a day. I'm definitely going to be buying this for my bookshelf. Possibly for gifts, too.
Also awesome, in a different way, is Wasted Epiphanies. This artist had me at for everyone who ever wished the mothership would come and take them home. The gorgeous art, and the occasional polar bear story are just icing on the cake:
This is me, except that I didn't know the mothership was coming until it arrived in the form of the internet. *hugs flist*
I love the way webcomics have become such a huge thing. There's something for everyone.
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Date: 2010-02-19 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-19 05:54 am (UTC)I am so torn between how delicious this sounds, and how incestuous!
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Date: 2010-02-19 03:09 am (UTC)I am going to have to check out those webcomics tomorrow, because right now it's getting too close to time to turn off my computer. They look like fun though! And I find it very admirable that you're thinking about buying some of Malaak for gifts. I have to believe that a literary gift goes a long way.
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Date: 2010-02-19 06:02 am (UTC)Don't get scurvy!
I have to believe that a literary gift goes a long way.
I like to support artists when I can afford it - and a book is never a bad gift. I was always so grateful for the books that people gave me, it's good to be able to pay it forward now that I have the means.
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Date: 2010-02-20 03:48 am (UTC)