Flirting With Solar

Who wouldn’t love to say goodbye to their electric bill (or most of it) and get your electricity from the sun? I think I would, but the high cost, the complexity, the fact that it always seems like the next big breakthrough in solar is just around the corner...

If It Weren’t For Volunteer Tomatoes

. . . I’d have no tomatoes at all. Weird year for tomatoes. We had plenty of spring rain and mild weather so the tomatoes I planted in the garden got off to a good start. Unfortunately, by the time the first few tomatoes started to ripen, drought set in and the...