Our third epiphyllum succulent sprouted it’s second flower last evening. Since the plant that produces the white flowers is in an infrequently visited part of the garden, I found the wilted first flower after it was too late for any pictures. However, I got this shot of it today. Click for full-size.
Some previous epiphyllum pictures:
Sundays, we drive over to the target range and generally go under the old bridge in Torrance, California. The bridge crosses Torrance Boulevard and the railroad tracks where the Pacific Electric Red Cars used to run.
After coming home from the gun show today, we relaxed in the backyard. We had the crockpot on all day cooking pasta e fajioli which we ate while sitting on the swing and watching the birds. This house sparrow was also enjoying a meal, courtesy of our bird feeder.
One of my colleagues, Jim, sent me this photo of his restored vintage Ford. Jim was at a friend’s birthday party; the friend (although not having any vintage wheels) has several friends who are into the pastime of restoring classic cars. While at the party, the buddies lined up their cars for a little informal cruise.
I’ve known Jim for about nine years or so – he’s been working on that Hi Boy for most of that time that I know about. It’s good to see it looking all nice and cherry. And the same color as cherries too.
All of these look like very nice wheels, even the newer yellow Corvette on the end. Speaking of Corvettes, Jim’s other car can be seen here.
Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Verna has a rather extensive DVD collection. So, to try and keep track of each title, genre, rating and any remarks, I developed a web-based database interface. One of my technical skills deals with doing that sort of thing, so it was fairly easy for me to do.
One feature allows us to assign a rating to the DVDs we see. When I enter a DVD into the database initially, it is rated as ‘UNRATED’ and gets updated afterwards. We have the following ten rating categories (least to most): Sucks, Bad, Weird, So-So, Good, Very Good, Excellent, Outstanding and Sensational.
Less than stellar DVDs get RETIRED and are donated to charities like Goodwill or The Salvation Army. You can check out the listing on the public DVD page, Verna’s DVD Collection.
Not everyone will agree with our ratings, but we think very highly of the following Outstanding and above titles:
Coming soon, this nice Italian Squash (zucchini) looks pretty good on the vine. There are a couple others on this bush and I also have crookneck squash, pumpkins, several varieties of tomatoes and Kentucky Wonder green beans in the works. We should have some fresh garden veggies on our table before long.
