a variety of communities

we actually received more rain yesterday than i thought given the short duration...and six of the next ten are forecast to be rainy...

yesterday just before the rain i saw farmer brown out injecting his field with anhydrous ammonia and killing the worms...in more ways than one...anhydrous ammonia kills about fifteen percent of the local earthworm population by drying and changing the chemistry of what i suppose passes for soil...and the community of gulls are not doing the worm population any favors either...still...if the weather doesn't turn unrealistically rainy as it did last may planting is nearing quickly...we'll see...

since the community garden on campus has been rendered "closed for the season" by the authorities in control of that institution a bed has ben leased...for a nominal fee...from the portage community garden to provide an outlet for surplus energy and plant life that usually occurs here in the somewhat limited back yard..the soil looks to need some work...easy enough to do...some compost..say three hundred pounds or so...and we will be of and running...corn, beans, squash, spuds, a few gourds, and a teocintli plant or two should pack the bed...there will be updates as events transpire.