17 July 09

I was called from work to be "on call", so we will see if I work today or not. In some ways that is good, because I am accumulating too much PTO. If it goes too high, then I just lose the hours.

I hoed one part of my garden--the west part around the tomatoes, peppers, corn, and onions. I need to hoe now around the beets and potatoes. I just leave the potatoes in the ground and dig them up when we need them, but there is no use in have the area covered with grass.

When I mowed the other day, I completely missed a section. Maybe that happens when a person gets older.

I'm also study for PALS--Pediatric Advanced Life Support. I've never, in 34 years of nursing, had to code a child, and even though we have someone under 16 in out ICU very rarely--like 3 or 4 times a year, the hospital insurance carrier mandated that the nurses needed PALS. OK so I'll take it on August 20-21. I'll probably forget what I learn, so will just have to use the Broselow Pediatric Tape which we have on our code cart.

Cheers

12 July 09 Garden

Here are some snapshots of the garden on 12Jul09.

Elon's 10 to 11 foot corn.


Milo down by the creek. The soil is like compost, and things really grow well.


I like paths, so here are two of the paths around the place.





Anna's herb garden.


A snapshot of Elon's and Ezra's garden. It doesn't show everything.


A plat for the fall bean crop to be planted about 15 August.


Sweet corn; it's getting there!


Tomatoes are coming along.


Elon planted a variety of sunflowers on one of the fence rows. Yes, that is a rogue corn plant.

Interesting Tornado Video

We had a good day yesterday--Elon's birthday. We had brats, potato salad, root beer float, and ice cream sundays. You might want to read about past birthday celebrations on Jenny's blog.

Mark called yesterday; it sure was good to hear his voice.

The garden is looking good. The corn--first planting--is filling out; the second planting is about 4 inches high.

Some good software I'm using lately is Great News--a RSS reader. It gathers all my favorites into one place.

Tiny Spell is a little utility that helps me check my spelling on anything I type. If I type something misspelled, it will pop up a little window--the same size as the word--and I can click it to show me how to spell it correctly. I can choose the word and all is changed.

Often I need to remove all formatting from the clipboard. It is so irritating so paste something only to find spacing wrong, fonts changed, etc. I use a little utility called Pure Text.

Back to work tomorrow. ICU has been busy lately with 3-4 patients; usually we only have 1-2 patients. Anna has general orientation. Josh has been working steadily. Mark is still looking for work.